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White Water rafting is a popular water adventure sport in Nepal, All major rivers created from the Himalayas and running down the mountains offers tremendous exciting experience of white Water rafting. A river journey is one of the most enjoyable and effective ways to experience the life of rural areas & spectacular scenery of nature's beauty. **Manakamana River Adventure** is a professional rafting company for the arrangement of thrilling white water rafting trips in Nepal with safety. Our top preference is to provide quality service with safety to every client. Our rafting guides inform all the aspects of rafting and river safety before starting of each journey. Safety Kayakers are always along on high water expeditions.

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=...TRADITIONS...= Tradition and Culture The Gurungs are very colorful, happy and flirtatious people. A caste hierarchy divides the Gurung community into ' char jat' and ' sor jat', group of four and sixteen clans respectively. They are distinctly endogamous groups. Traditionally they prefer cross- cousins marriage. Among some Gurungs, a small amount of compensation may be necessary if one wishes to avoid cross- cousins marriage. The parallel cousins marriage is, however, strictly prohibited. They also have a tradition of ' Rodi', a club of boys and girls of similar age group where dancing and singing is performed. This institution gives them ample opportunities to know, understand each other and develop love and affection. The environment in the Rodi is very flirtatious. The whole function is guided and held in the supervision of an adult. The Gurungs have very interesting dance tradition. They perform Sorathi, Ghado, Ghatu and others on one or many occasions. The dancing season generally starts on Shri Panchami day ( On the fifth day of bright lunar fortnight some day in January or February) till the day of Chandi purnima (some day in May or April). Traditional dress of the Gurungs includes a short blouse tied across the front and a short skirt of several yards of white cotton material wrapped around the waist and held like a wide belt. The Gurung women wear a cotton or velveteen blouse tied at the front, and a sari of printed material usually a dark reddish color. Their ornaments include gold and coral necklaces, gold earrings and nose rings and bangles [|traditions]



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The earliest examples of Nepalese painting are in the form of manuscript illustrations on palm leaves. When the first surviving paintings are examined, it becomes quite clear that they are the result of along and well-developed pictorial tradition. The antiquity of Nepalese manuscripts goes back to the ninth century; however, not all early manuscripts were illustrated. The earliest known example o an illustrated manuscript is the //Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita// dated 1015AD. These manuscripts invariably consist of narrow folios of palm leaves about thirty centimeters long, depending on text, but not wider than five centimeters. The manuscripts are perforated in two places, loosely held together with string and protected by wooden covers on both sides. These wooden covers, a large number of which have fortunately survived, are more lavishly painted than the manuscripts themselves. In palm leaf manuscript, the scribe leaves spaces for illustrations, which the artists' later paint with figures of divinities.



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=...BUILDINGS/ FAMOUS STRUCTERS...= **The Shikhara style** The Shikhara style forms yet another architectural design found in Nepal. The super-structure of this style is a tall curvilinear or pyramidal tower whose surface is broken up vertically into five or nine sections. The final section consists of a bell-shaped part at the top. The Krishna temple in Patan, consecrated by Kind Siddhi Narasingh Malla is the finest specimen of the relatively less popular Shikhara style. [|Architecture and picture]
 * [[image:http://www.thamel.com/images/krishna_mandir.jpg width="171" height="256" align="center"]] ||
 * **Shikhara Style Krishna Temple, Patan** ||

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