Family carrying manure

Incidents of Travel >   Trekking the Kali Gandaki >   Kagbeni to Jharkot

Gurung family in Jharkot, Nepal, filling baskets of manure to transport to a field. Chaff and wood for fuel is piled on the roof of their house. You can generally tell a family'f wealth by the height of the stack on their roof.

The Gurungs are a large clan whose members populate much of the Kali Gandaki valley.