Talamathi

light show from renjo la Originally uploaded by sikari kukur I haven’t posted in a while due to busy-ness. I did run across this photo of Makalu mountain that is just beautiful. Technorati Tags: Flickr , Nepal

aLL OvEr Originally uploaded by TeLePoTo Every time I've flown to Nepal, we stayed above the cloud cover until getting close to Kathmandu Valley. Breaking through that cloud cover is particularly breathtaking, as you get a sudden view of the amazing hills. The last time coming in, a group of drunken tourists in front of me simultaneously said, "WOOOOOAAAAAAHHH" as the hills came in to view. Having said all that, I don't know where this photo was taken (it is someone else's photo, after all) or the real story behind it, but that's what came to my mind when I first saw this. Technorati Tags: Flickr , Nepal

Annapurna tea house Originally uploaded by ruan benade This great photo just showed up today from ruan benade . And again, I'm not trying to turn this in to Nepal-photos-on- Flickr -love-fest, whatever that means. But dang it, there are some good photos out there. The one problem with this one is the original is too small to make in to a desktop background. And I have no idea who those people in the picture are. Technorati Tags: Flickr , Nepal

Going Home Originally uploaded by framing_gale Here’s the actual reason I wanted to be able to write about photos from Flickr . Everything about it is just really amazing. Technorati Tags: Flickr , Nepal

Gandruk at dawn Originally uploaded by WhiteGoldWielder Yet another nice Nepal photo. Don’t worry; I will post things other than purty pictures soon. Technorati Tags: Flickr , Nepal

nepal.10.jpg Originally uploaded by sgurranairgid I just though I would post a few other nice photos as I come across them. This one is from sgurranairgrid . Technorati Tags: Flickr , Nepal

Fiery Sky! Originally uploaded by Adams K. This photo from Adams K. really caught my eye. It also gives me the opportunity to try out blogging about photos from Flickr . The ability to write a post like this through Flickr is really quite interesting and, I might add, quite useful. And hopefully this will come out looking all right. Oh, and as I mentioned in “ Flickr tourists in Nepal ”, their Nepal-tagged RSS feed is something I am fond of. Technorati Tags: Nepal , Flickr

I have read a lot of reports that tourism has increased in Nepal since the cease-fire. Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if this was true. Unfortunately, it appears the official Nepali Tourism site only has statistics up to 2005 . Those are interesting in their own right, but a bit outdated. So I thought I might try a different tact. Flickr is a great resource for trying to find photos of things, or tracking new photos of them. In fact, I am subscribed to Flickr’s Nepal RSS feed , a news feed of new photos that are public and tagged with the keyword “Nepal”. So here is a question: how many photos with the word “Nepal” appearing in their description have been taken? There are way too many uncertainties to try and draw any deep conclusions from this, but here are Flickr’s numbers, quarter by quarter: April-June 2004: 3,186 July-September 2004: 1,496 October-December 2004: 4,917 January-March 2005: 4,031 April-June 2005: 5,454 July-September 2005: 8,3...