Back to my Childhood Village: what a Tibetan village home looks like?

How long have you been away from your hometown?

For me, it’s almost 25 years since I left my childhood village.

Today’s video is back to my childhood village, see how it has changed over the past 25 years, and also experience real life in the Tibetan countryside. https://www.tibettravel.org/

Actually, my parents’ house had collapsed about ten years ago because none of us lived here and repaired the house. So I could only go back to my uncle’s house.

My uncle’s house remains almost the same as before. I even took a nap in my childhood bed.

Like all the other Tibetan stone houses, my uncle’s home consists of bedrooms, a typical Tibetan style dining room, a separate praying chapel, a storeroom, and a very Tibetan toilet (an open-air toilet).

Among these rooms, the praying chapel is the most special one in a Tibetan house. Every Tibetan home has a praying chapel, where the family can do their daily prayers in their free time.

Though there is a modern refrigerator, my uncle’s family still kept the original storeroom to keep air-dried yak meat and other items.

I was amazed to see that they still had their old habits, and it was gratifying to see some new changes, like the new TV and tap-water pipes because my uncle and my nephews could enjoy better living conditions than I had back then.

Collecting yak dung, doing kora around the nearby ancient stupa, visiting the Jhoden Monastery in the village…these were all parts of my daily life since I lived with my uncle in this small Tibetan village.

I would like to share the memory of my hometown with all of you through this video. Hoping we could meet together in Tibet and let me take you to my lovely hometown.

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