Sundown In The Himalayas

Rice Paddy fields and clumped forests dominated the horizon as one marveled at the landscape from a vantage point in Kathmandu, Nepal. Soaring above the hills and valleys of the Bagmati river basin the Himalayas would gleam in a reddish hue towering above the landscape a daily reminder to the people of the majesty of the place they belong to. Yet, with rising smog levels and air pollution and the city of Kathmandu expanding beyond the confines of its rice paddies views of the Himalayas are all but lost and a rare site, celebrated in social media. As, modernization seeps into the heartlands of Nepal and its capital an alarming lack of sustainable development is apparent as now dark clouds of smog and dust obscure the Himalayas and one rarely is able to glimpse its majesty.