Tanahu

Tanahun District a part of Gandaki Pradesh, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Damauli as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,546 km2 (597 sq mi) and has a population (2011) of 323,288. Previously the town of Bandipur was its district headquarter. This district lies in the middlemost of country Nepal. 

Date: 2020 B.S.
Location: Yangchowk, Tanahu
Photo Authors : Roger Cranse
Description: The woman is using a plant and ashes from the fire to clean the day's dishes.


Date: 2030 B.S.
Location: Chhang, Tanahu
Photo Authors : Chuck Weaver
Description: Village elders in Gurung village, one wearing a military cap.

Date: 2020 B.S.
Location: Yangchowk, Tanahu
Photo Authors : Roger Cranse
Description: A Magar village with homes set close together on a steep hillside about six hours walk from Bandipur. The prominent structure with whitewashed upper floor is home to Major Narbahadur Thapa.  Major Thapa served with the Gurkha Engineers in World War Two, during the partition of India and Pakistan - trying to prevent the slaughter of Muslims and Hindus - and in the Malayan Emergency.  Major Thapa was also Gurkha Orderly to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. Upon retirement he build a clean water system for Yangchowk and served as the village's doctor, administering both allopathic and traditional herbal treatments.


Date: 2025 B.S.
Location: Tanahu
Photo Authors : Bill Hanson
Description: Corn drying outside houses in a small village on the trail from Bandipur to Pokhara.

 

Date: 2030 B.S.
Location: Chhang, Tanahu
Photo Authors : Chuck Weaver
Description: Slate-roofed house in Gurung village with Machhapuchchhre and Annapurna range in background.


Date: 2020/12/07_Fri B.S.
Location: Virlung, Tanahun
Photo Authors : Don Messerschmidt
Description: A Hindu sadhu from India poses for his photo while visiting a local mela (fair).

 


Date: 2026 B.S.
Location: Tanahu
Photo Authors : Bill Hanson
Description: Ferry carrying a truck across the Marsyangdi River in Tanahun district on road to Terai.


Date: 2020 B.S.
Location: Tanahu
Photo Authors : Roger Cranse
Description: Terraces transform the mountainside in the foreground.

Location: Tanahun, Nepal

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