Simikot – Thomas Kelly
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Simikot, perched at 11,000′, below the towering Saipal Himalayan range. In a land of no electricity and little fuel, villagers retire early and rise with the sun. Simikot means “court above the bean marsh,”for it was here, four hundred years ago, that a Thakuri prince ruled the Kalyal confederacy. Today, Simikot is the district center of Humla, housing many government offices, a school, a medical outpost, and a army that guards the Nepalese-Chinese border and patrols the area for an encroaching Maoist insurgency. Simikot also possesses the region’s only link with Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu – an airstrip. Simikot situated above Karnali. Humla, Nepal.
