An evening's entertainment, Nepalese style

While in Nepal, we spent two nights at Into The Wild Eco Resort.
http://intothewildecoresort.com/
The resort is a small one. Comfortable. With friendly and accommodating staff and a lovely host.
It is set on the Rapti River, across from Chitwan National Park.

A view from the restaurant's porch, where you can enjoy some tea or a glass of wine before dinner.

Our room was on the left of this section of the resort:

View from our porch:

As you can see, this is not a "resort" in the terms of pools and water slides, gift shops and conference rooms. It was lovely and relaxing.

The first of our two nights there, the owner/host arranged for some local Nepalese women to share some traditional dance with us. There were some hand-held drums off to the side.

Some video ...

Resort guests were invited to join in the dancing. There aren't many guests at any one time (25-30 people maximum, I think, if you are filling up every bed in all 14 rooms). So in a situation like this, it's hard to hide and refuse to join in. Tim had the perfect excuse of taking photographs. Smart man.

It sure seemed like simple dancing, when watching. But when you tried to imitate the elegance of these Nepalese women, well, I had fun trying and was okay with not being successful in showing any kind of rhythm :-)  You really don't have to watch the whole video ... I was frankly too lazy to edit it to a shorter length than the 2 or so minutes :-)

Some of our fellow guests were from Japan. They chatted with Tim later (their English was far better than our non-existent Japanese!). Some, if not all, were from Hiroshima. They gave Tim a couple of postcards from Hiroshima, and email addresses were exchanged. We look forward to keeping in touch with them.

It's tough to get a good group photo with limited lighting in the dark edges of Nepal. You can see some faces in this photo. Tim is to the far left, mostly in shadow. Figured it was still worth sharing!

On a side, simply because I just had to share this photo ... During a walk to and through the little tiny town, we came across this particular local business. Not sure if I was more amused or more frightened by the artwork!  (We did not venture in ...)