Rare Pictures Of Old Nepal That Will Take You Back In Time

Who doesn’t love a good black and white picture? Today, we present you a collection of pictures that will take you back to the glory days of vintage Nepal. These old pictures that document the life, leaders and celebrities of old Nepal over the past decades. Here are a few of our personal favorites that you need to see today.

1. A bride being taken to the groom’s house following the marriage in Panauti in 1969 AD.

2. Women waiting to cast their votes during election in Baglung in 1966.

3. An aerial view of Bauddhanath in 1979 AD.

4. Porters carrying a car across a stream in 1948. Young men in the villages of Makwanpur were hired to transport the vintage German-made Mercedes.

5. Bhotahiti in 1965

6. Dharma Bhakta Mathema photographed with his wife and daughter.

7. Dharahara destroyed in 1934 Nepal Earthquake.

8. A bangle seller attending customers at Aitabare haat bazaar (market) in Panchakanya, Ilam in 1967.

9. King Tribhuwan with his two queens.

10. A little girl applying bhai tika to her brother in Mauja, Kaski in 1973.

11. Tenzing Norgey Sherpa and Edmund Hillary on the top of Mount Everest in 1953.

12. Nepali beauty -1972

13.  Queen Elizabeth Ll shakes hands with King Birendra as she and her husband Prince Philip arrive in Nepal in 1986.

14. Ason in 1970s

15. Kathmandu – Bhaktapur road, in late 1970s.

16. People supporting king’s rule during 1980 referendum.

17.Chabhil (Stupa) in 1980s.

18. Unindentified place -1976

19. Gauchar Airport

20. Trolley bus stop – 1975

The good old days, really.