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Marpha, Nepal
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- September 29, 1984
- Location
- Marpha, en route from Tukche to Kaagbeni, Nepal
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
See this photograph in context
- Salt trading in Asia: In this interdisciplinary lesson, students explore the mineral salt from a variety of perspectives — scientific, geographic, and cultural. The lesson incorporates images of salt production in Nepal and Vietnam, and may be used with grade 4 or grade 7.
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A narrow pathway between houses in Marpha, Nepal. Two porters and one tourist stand on the path.
Marpha is home to many Thakali, an ethnic group once active in the salt trade from Tibet and across the mountains in western Nepal. Since the decline of the historical salt trade, Thakalis have embraced other ways of making a living. Many work in tourism, operating restaurants along trekking routes and bus routes in different parts of Nepal.
Marpha is also famous for its apples and for apple brandy of the same name.
