Saturday, May 18, 2013
Suspended Bridge at Chetchet
Friday, July 20, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Gatha Mangal Jatra in Dolakha
The Gatha Mangal Jatra or Ghantakarna was
celebrated in Dolakha yesterday (it is on July 17 in this year). After the
Gatha Mangal Jatra, Lakhe Jatra begins in Dolakha. This Lakhe Jatra is
going to continue until Janai Purnima (August 2). This festival is only
celebrated by Newari people.
According to the myth, the demon wore bell earrings in order to drown
out the name of the god Shiva with their jingling. Attributed to him
are acts of robbery, murder, and kidnapping of children. A Ghantakarna
demon who used to give trouble to the people in the ancient time,
killed by the people on this day. From that day, people make large symbolic
bodyof the demon and take it to throw in the out of the town, the people have
good feast together with their family for a whole day.
Photo: Shivajee
Friday, May 4, 2012
Kuri Valley at Kalinchowk
Kuri valley from the top of Kalinchowk
Kuri valley is located at the base of Kalinchowk and it is situated at an altitude 3200m. This valley is very beautiful and in this season we can enjoy with Chimal flower (white Rhododendron), which makes the valley nice landscape. Recently access road also constructed to connect this valley. Recently this valley is rapidly developing and we can also find some tourist hotels.
View of Himalaya from the top of Kalinchowk
For more information about Kalinchowk and photos, please click link below.
http://dolakhatown.blogspot.jp/2008/12/panorama-of-kalinchowk-dolakha.html
Monday, March 5, 2012
Panorama view of Tamakoshi River
Panorama view of Tamakoshi River and nature landscape from Banchare dada.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Pashupati Temple of Dolakha
Recently Pashupati temple of Dolakha which is located at Syambhuthan has been reconstructedand renovated. The photos below show the after and before the reconstruction of the temple.
After reconstruction
Before reconstruction
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Benefit of Landslide dam at Tamakoshi River
Landslide dam at Tamakoshi River, Lamabagar
Any hazard events do not create always disasters sometimes we can get advantage from these events. The hazard events itself is not a disaster unless they do not affect to human being. Several years ago, landslide occurs at Tamakoshi River in Lamabagar Village of Dolakha and formed a landslide dam. After few years, the landslide dam became stable and upstream of the dam filled up by river sedimentation. Due to stability of this dam at the river, the high head is created to generate a large amount of electricity. Currently, the Upper Tamakoshi Hydroelectric Project of 456MW is in under construction to produce a electricity utilizing the benefit of the landslide dam which facilitates high head for the power generation.
View of Landslide dam and Tamakoshi River
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Koshi River
After long time back, today I could manage a free time to post something in this blog and I thought to share some experience of my Koshi River visit on January 16. 2012. My office, ICHARM, organized a Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Water-related Disaster Risk Management on January 15-18, 2012 in Kathmandu Nepal. During the workshop, we also had a field site survey at Koshi River Barrage for the site survey of flood affected areas of Koshi flood 2008. There was severe damaged by 2008 flood.
The Kosi River for its seven Himalayan tributaries—is a trans-boundary river flowing through Nepal and India. Some of the rivers of the Koshi system, such as the Arun, the Sun Koshi and the Bhote Koshi, originate in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It is one of the largest tributaries of the Ganges. Along with its tributaries, the river drains 29,400 km2 (11,400 sq mi) in China (mainly the upper Arun basin north of the Mount Everest region), 30,700 km2 (11,900 sq mi) in Nepal (the eastern third of the country), and 9,200 km2 (3,600 sq mi) in India. Over the last 250 years, the Koshi River has shifted its course over 120 km (75 mi) from east to west. Its unstable nature has been attributed to the heavy silt it carries during the monsoon season. Flooding in India has extreme effects, and the country is second in the world after Bangladesh in deaths due to flooding, accounting for one fifth of global flooding deaths. The Koshi River (The Sorrow of Bihar) is one of two major tributaries, the other river being the Gandaki, draining the plains of north Bihar, the most flood-prone area of India.
Koshi flood disaster of 18th August 2008
The breach on the embankment of the Koshi River (12.6km upstream of barrage) occurred on 18th August 2008 at 12:45PM. At the time of breaching, about 168 thousand cusec of water diverted into Kusaha, Laukahi, Ghuski, Sreepur, Haripur, Narshimha, Madhuban and Basantapur VDC of Sunsari district. It caused the displacement of more than 107,200 people in Nepal. Progression of embankment breaching took place at the rate of about 500m in every five hours. It is the countr’s worst flooding in five decades. Rains during caused the embankment to collapse. When the Koshi River changed its course towards the east, beaching 1.7km of its left embankment and it deposited silt on the flood affected area and adjoining villages covering 5475 hectors of agricultural land. About 80% of flow passed through the breached section. The death toll would have been very high if the flood had occurred at night. At the time of disaster about 15kilometers of the East West highway was obstructed and 3 kilometers was destroyed. About two thirds of houses were severely damaged as most of them were huts made of mud, bamboo and thatch. These houses were generally one story high. The floor and walls were mud plastered. It caused extensive damage to the optical fiber cable network laid along the highway.
Data Source links: (online accessed December 30, 2011)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koshi_River
Sunset from Koshi River bank
Koshi River Barrage
River Bank protection structures
Koshi Barrage
Koshi River
Koshir Barrage
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