Asar Ropai — Rice Planting Festival in Nepal | Photostories by Udhab Khatri

Asar Ropai — rice planting festival in Khokana, Lalitpur

Photo Story · Khokana, Lalitpur

Asar Ropai
Rice Planting Day

Udhab Khatri · Asar 15, 2024 · Khokana, Lalitpur

On Asar 15, the fields of Khokana fill with the sound of bare feet in the mud — families and neighbours planting rice together, in the middle of the monsoon, for the season ahead.

Asar Ropai — rice planting festival in Nepal — Khokana, Lalitpur

Farmers planting rice in the mud — Khokana, Lalitpur

Rice planting celebration in Nepal — Khokana, Lalitpur

Monsoon paddy fields in Nepal — Khokana, Lalitpur

Asar 15 festival celebration — Khokana, Lalitpur

Farmers working in flooded rice fields — Khokana, Lalitpur

Ropain Diwas celebration in Nepal — Khokana, Lalitpur

Asar Ropai rice planting day — Khokana, Lalitpur

Traditional rice planting in Nepal — Khokana, Lalitpur

Nepali farmers in monsoon paddy fields — Khokana, Lalitpur

National Paddy Day Nepal celebration — Khokana, Lalitpur

Asar Ropai portrait — farmer planting rice — Khokana, Lalitpur

Nepali woman planting rice in paddy field — Khokana, Lalitpur

Traditional Nepali rice planting portrait — Khokana, Lalitpur

Ropain Diwas celebration portrait — Khokana, Lalitpur

Monsoon rice planting in Nepal portrait — Khokana, Lalitpur

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