Hilltop villages

Majuwa is a village of 300 people situated on a ridge above the city of Kathmandu. My first full day in Kathmandu, my guide Expansion called to say his brother Ganesh was going to a village above Nepal and I was invited to come along. Ok... Why not! Ganesh has been working on a pipeline system with a Dutch company to deliver water from a spring to the village of Majuwa. Today he was delivering a couple more rolls of tubing to the village. So I got a tour of the plastic tubing factory and we strapped a couple rolls of tubing on the top of the taxi...

Its a wonderful village full of such friendly people. We enjoyed a cup of tea at the village tea house. We enjoyed a taste of rice whiskey hot off the distillery.

We hiked up to see the pipeline and fix leaks and to see the storage tank and cement tank near the spring. We stopped for tea and a thukpa lunch in the village above named Jaikuti. School had just finished for the term and kids were playing carrom in the courtyard area in front of the school. This is a photo of the school and a woman carrying water to her home.