Bhacktapur

 It seemed as if history was found around ever street corner, alleyway, and building in Bhacktapur...one of the oldest cities of Nepal.  After about an hour bus ride away from Kathmandu I felt as if I lived 100 years ago. Women still retrieving water from a well, using bicycles to go from one place to another, and drying their freshly harvested wheat in the sun...

 

 Bhacktapur is known for their creatively thrown and "fired" pottery.  I couldn't say no when the older man behind me in the picture below invited me to throw on his old wooden wheel. It was powered by turning it quickly with a stick before hand...instead of a firing the pieces with a kiln they let it dry in the sun then bury them in a pile of hot ashes and sand for four days until the pieces are complete, ready to sell.

Guess which one is mine!