travel photography - little girl at Bamboo Lodge, Langtang National Park, Nepal

This is a monochrome version of a scan of a color photo taken and printed in 1995.

I have traveled to different countries on this beautiful earth, but none made as much of an impression on me as Nepal. Maybe it was because it was my first journey outside of Europe, a real culture shock - the material poverty on the one hand and the spiritual richness on the other. It was transformational on my view of life.
This photo is from a magical location, Bamboo Lodge, in Langtang National Park. This little girl helped her (grand?)parents in their lodge, where I stayed at the beginning of a trek through the Himalayas. One day towards the end of the trek I made all effort to get here in time before nightfall so I could stay there again. More than twenty years later, having visited many places, the little lodge where this girl lived in the forest still remains my favorite.

The color scan can be viewed in the Langtang National Park series on my website.

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