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Europe & Asia 2022
  • Donny Foy
  • Caroline Edwards
  • Donny Foy
  • Caroline Edwards

Europe & Asia 2022

We are off on the next adventure. Go east young couple, go east. Leggi altro
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    Nepal

    7 dicembre 2022, Nepal ⋅ ☀️ 64 °F

    Third day in Kathmandu. It’s been slow going. Once you walk out the gate of the hotel, be ready to battle the mayhem of scooters, cars, people. No sidewalks to be found. Still lots of memories of the 2015 earthquake.
    People are lovely and the food has been fantastic.    Leggi altro

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    3You can see the giant yomari in this clipHmmmm....Temple inside

    Kathmandu: Yomari Punhi Festival

    8 dicembre 2022, Nepal ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F

    After touring the temple and museum around Durbar Square, we got to see the Yomari Punhi festival in progress—groups of people all dressed up, parading toward the square, banging drums and cymbals (quite the racket!), and happy smiles all around.

    The festival marks the end of the rice harvesting season and people make yomaris, offering them to Goddess Annapurna or Mother Earth, Goddess Laxmi or Lord Kumar, Lord Ganesh and Lord Kuber with the belief that it will bring wealth, health and prosperity.

    Yomari—which loosely translates to bread loved by all—are cone/fig shaped rice dough dumplings filled with sugar/molasses and sesame paste. Small ones are made and sold throughout the city on this day.

    A flatbed truck mid-procession was carrying a big white blob about the size of a crate of oranges got a lot of attention—lots of people taking photos and making worship gestures.
    Turns out that was a giant yomari!

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    Kathmandu Temples

    8 dicembre 2022, Nepal ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F

    For USD$75, we hired a car & driver to take us around Kathmandu for a few hours before our flight. It just happened to be a festival day, so we got to observe people making offerings and having a more leisurely day.

    It was fun watching the monkeys scamper around but the most surprising experience was seeing in-progress open-air cremations along the river. Piles of wood on concrete platforms that they place the body upon and tend for the 4-5hrs it takes to turn to ashes, which are then pushed into the river.

    A few things we we learned about the Hindu faith:
    • the body must be cremated the same day it dies
    • when death is imminent (hours), the person is taken to the temple near the river (If they don’t die, they are considered reborn and given a new name)
    • women are not allowed to attend the cremation as they are present for the beginning of life and the cremation is about the end of life
    • male blood relatives (generally sons) shave all their hair off (even eyebrows) and must remain hairless for a full year
    • immediate blood relatives must wear all white for a full year after the death (when I asked why I hadn’t seen anyone in all white, our guide said people rarely go out because if they get any color on their white clothes, they must restart the year of mourning 😳)
    • all of the deceased’s belongings are sold or given away
    • anyone living in the deceased’s home, must leave and live in special temples for 13 days after the death, the amount of time it is believed that the soul takes to ascend to heaven
    • most of these traditions are about helping the soul let go of the physical realm    Leggi altro

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    8 dicembre 2022