30 minutes at downtown
Rajendra Man Banepali
16 December 2011
SHAURAH, 16 December 27, 2011 – I and my team move to Shaurah after busy schedule of presentation. Our driver dropped us at riverside and we enjoyed the sun set taking dozen of snaps attaching ourselves into the natures while we got to stick with two beautiful. The moment with new friend added values and coverage into the life. The new feelings and sharing of experience made us close to make more effective plan ahead. We decide to stay at Shaurah for a night and search for a lodge. We got it. A manager of lodge suggested us to get relax attending a cultural dance of Tharu Samaj at downtown hall. We went, and we got ready for new venture.
One of my friend paid 240 rupees for four friends, sat down middle of the hall and wait for novelty of presentation from Tharu Samaj. It seems very interesting since I was very new for those cultural dances. A foreigner couple was sitting just beside me. Most of the foreigners were sitting at the front as delegates; there might be foreigner rate for non Nepali people.
The culture dance started and we enjoyed a lot. At the middle of the programme, the event hit my mind and opened a key with an awesome sense. In a context of diminishing indigenous culture in Nepal the tourism is one of the good ways to keep the culture’s existence with economical presence. Why cannot we start such a programme in Bhaktapur, my home town, coordinating with tourism sector for economic presence for sustainable development? Economic actives push up people to involve such routine. if local people can survive showing such cultural programme, not only they can boost up their life but also we can contribute their life into social life, culture existence, and for their own existence and originality in front of the world.
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