Nepal (October 2017): Simikot to Kolti via Mount Saipal
8. Village of Yuna
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On the next morning, before leaving our camp, Ang Karma and I hiked up to visit Yuna, an old traditional village of approximately 400 people. One of the honey hunters who had accompanied us since the Chhimdi Khola bridge (and who had decided to come with us to Kolti) guided our visit.
Reaching the village.
Inside the village.
Small cactus are planted on most rooftops. The villagers′ belief is that these cactus protect their houses from lightning strikes.
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House details. Left and center: beehives embedded in walls. Right: use of wood bars to strengthen walls.
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Two flails racked on a house wall. Each consists of a long wood stick and a swipple made of 6 shorter sticks attached together. The photo on the right (taken by Ang Karka in Simikot at the beginning of the trek) shows how such a flail is held and swung for threshing.
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Some people of Yuna, mostly women and children, as most men had already left to plow fields (see below in this page).
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Man of Yuna encountered near the river. I was told he is a kind of shaman for the village.
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In the water-propelled flour mill of the village, near the river.
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Other houses of Yuna near the river.
The same man as in the flour mill, now on his way to plowing a field.
Men plowing with handmade wooden plows drawn by oxen.
View of Yuna later in the morning as we resumed trekking toward Kolti.
