Thursday, October 31, 2013

Local architecture

 Modern, Western-style apartments (where I stayed the first 3 weeks):

Apartments and hotels crowded on a hillside slope near Library Bazaar:


One of the earlier British built houses in Landaur, this one built in the 1830s .. later occupied by Presbyterian missionaries .. now refurbished inside and home to three different Woodstock staff families:


Near the Everest House there are some stone houses of goat-herders and farmers built in a more traditional way. Note the plastic sheeting used on the roof.

This one had a stone barn for goats, but a newer stone & plaster house with a metal roof.




A very traditional mountain house (photo taken Oct. 2012). The lower level is for the animals, the upper level is where the family lives (and benefits from warmth coming up from the animal stalls). This house still has the traditional slate roof.