Visual Echoes:

Visual Echoes is an educational program under Guided Tour that offers an opportunity to explore the traditional tools used by the people of Bungamati, Nepal, in their daily lives. This program seeks to highlight the significance of these tools from the 1960s, shedding light on the role they played in easing the lives of the community. Today, many of these tools have been replaced by modern equipment, making them a rare sight.

The collection of photographs were taken by Danish students who visited Bungamati for their research project in the 60s.

The town of Bunga or Bungamati lies about nine kilometres to the south of Kathmandu which is an exclusively Newar farming community. The inscriptions discovered here suggest the settlement already existed in the 7th century AD. Bungamati is famous for the temple of Bunga- dyo. Buddhists worship it as a two-armed figure of Padmapani Lokesvara (a form of Avalokitesvara, the most important deity in Mahayana Buddhism) whereas Hindus worship it as the Rato Machhendranath.

• Form to sign up for the program here: Visual Echoes