Among these supporters are some locals, though the majority of the area’s Limbu people have denounced the project as an “amusement park” that disrespects their sacred landscape.

Many cultures make singular contributions to humanity, and in the case of the Limbu people of eastern Nepal, it is the drink known as tongba.Outsiders rarely get to savor this heady millet brew ...

There is no better way to understand the Mundum cultural belief system of the Kirat people than to walk across the mountains of eastern Nepal and let the spirits take over. The Mundum Trail traverses ...

For the local Indigenous Limbu people (one of the Kirat groups), Mukkumlung has been a power centre for millennia. They vow to protect it from the cable car development, ...

Rudra the Limbu shaman performing a ritual at Cholung Park. The Aathpahariya caste is a small community, numbering only in the thousands in the whole of Nepal. You can find many temples and stupas ...

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Around 300,000 Hindu devotees trek for hours to Taplejung's mountaintop Pathibhara temple every year -- a site also deeply sacred to the local Limbu people's separate beliefs.

Banner image: A protest in Phungling, a town of 29,000 people, where roads, restaurants and businesses were closed entirely. Image by Prabin Seling ‘Sendow’. Cable car proposal is Nepal’s ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. KATHMANDU — The environmental impact assessment for a controversial cable car project in an area of Nepal held sacred by Indigenous ...