Nepal in pictures and stories. Enjoy as I did and will again by trying to r'd thm all

[Yvsa]

Here are some links I found while looking for the word meaning Nepali Outhouse...
The first two lead to some really beautiful pix of Nepal and the second an example of one of the stories I found by clicking on one of the links found in the Google Search.
Instead of sorting through them all I thought it best just to let y'all figure out which ones you might want to read. Some of the stories are really quite enertaining and worth saving so that a person could go back and visit them over and over again.:thumbup:

http://www.friedmanarchives.com/Nepal/index.htm

http://www.traveljournals.net/stories/1711.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Nepalese+Outhouse&btnG=Google+Search

 

[bwray]

Thanks Yvsa. There are some great shots in that first set.

 

[Howard Wallace]

... while looking for the word meaning Nepali Outhouse...

When I was there in the '70s the world was the outhouse.

I still remember asking a shopkeeper for a restroom in Kathmandu. He just laughed and said "You're in Nepal now" while waving his arm to indicate the whole of the city.

While hotels and such did have running water and (squat) toilets, I don't recollect any outhouses as such. The "porcelain thrones" we are used to were rare, with the flat asiatic toilets predominating.

Things may have changed in the last few decades.

 

[raghorn]

Seems to me, if I recall correctly, that Uncle Bill often used the word "charpi" in that context.

 

[MauiRob]

ahh Charpi--that brings back memories. IIRC I think Uncle Bill might have actually used the :barf: smiley once in his post--he wasn't a "smiley user" either. I still remember him talking about how bad the Birghorka charpi smelled

Thanks Raghorn--that really made my day

 

[cavetech]

When I was there in the '70s the world was the outhouse.

I still remember asking a shopkeeper for a restroom in Kathmandu. He just laughed and said "You're in Nepal now" while waving his arm to indicate the whole of the city.

While hotels and such did have running water and (squat) toilets, I don't recollect any outhouses as such. The "porcelain thrones" we are used to were rare, with the flat asiatic toilets predominating.

Things may have changed in the last few decades.

Toilets aroind the world. When I was in Cuba, they had toilets like we do, but there were no toilet seats. Never did figure that out. Honduras was similar around San Pedro Sula.