Simikot Airport from Danda Phaya hill.
Simikot airport is the one of the high altitude dusty airport, it operates hardly 5-6 month in a year. Small airplanes carrying peoples and cargo in very good season's lucky days. So this area is backward from the tourism destination development even it is one of the the old trade route in Nepalese history. Most of the South Indian Hindu pilgrims choose plane and helicopter charter from Nepaljung-Simikot-Hilsa than trekking and hiking as camping and tea-house which could be the back bone of Humla people's development. Karnali district specially above Simikot valley almost half of the year covered by snows and there is no more rice paddy for enough food supply, is known as food scarcity remote area, FAO and World Food Program distributed rice as "Work for Food" program. Half a year they put their cows inside the house fed by collected hey and foods, all the streams have been frozen in this cold season. Most of the peoples are poor and appears wrinkles in their face. Special food is rice from Kathmandu, Nepaljung and Tibet but locally harvested Humla rice is insufficient. Some degree holders have started apple farming in the huge field of Jumla as a social youth promoter. In the right time Nepalese youth poring Middle East for low paid job.
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Location: Danda Phaya, Simkot, Humla,Nepal.
Photo credit: © Prakash Khadka / Alamy / Afripics
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