I’ve been told that you can spend your life going from one Nepali festival to another and it would take decades to see them all. This week an archery festival is happening in Manang. The whole town comes out to see it, even the nuns. Men shoot at a diminutive target set up at (by my estimate) eighty paces. The first archers use traditional bows. They are followed by archers with modern sport recurves. The announcer on the microphone seemed to be talking smack about the contestants. There was a lot of laughter. The video is one minute.
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