Landruk honey hunting festival yields 130 litres of honey
During the Landruk Honey Hunting Festival which started on Tuesday and ended on Friday, honey hunters extracted 130 litres of honey from 17 hives. The residents of Landruk in Annapurna Rur
Honey hunting dwells in Nepal as a lesser-known practice that is only known to a few. This age-old technique is passed from one generation to another harvesting a rare and potent honey also known as ‘mad honey’ from the towering cliffs of Nepal. The Gurung community has practiced the ancient art of honey hunting for centuries. They are the true witness to the evolution of honey-hunting fame throughout the generations.
Honey hunting dwells in Nepal as a lesser-known practice that is only known to a few. This age-old technique is passed from one generation to another harvesting a rare and potent honey also known as ‘mad honey’ from the towering cliffs of Nepal. The Gurung community has practiced the ancient art of honey hunting for centuries. They are the true witness to the evolution of honey-hunting fame throughout the generations.
Hanging with the support of some ropes along a deadly cliff to fight deadly honey bees and collect honey from their hives is more difficult than it sounds.
The possibilities of adventure tourism through honey hunting are high.
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In the enchanting hills of Nepal, an age-old tradition called honey hunting unfolds, as brave individuals venture into the treacherous cliffs in search of nature’s golden nectar.
The Nepali months of Chaitra and Baishakh (mid-March to mid-May) are known as the season to gather honey in rural part of Nepal. It’s almost the end of the season for the honey hunters this year. Locals along with commercial honey collectors are busy gathering honey in the villages. It is believed that honey from higher altitude is good for health as it has medicinal qualities in it.
I got a call from locals as an invitation to document wild honeybees (Apis Dorsata Laborasia) hunting, the largest in the world. I had heard the honey collected in the Himalayan cliffs carried a lot of nutritional, medicinal, aphrodisiacal and hallucinogenic properties.
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