Pisang Village Manang Nepal

 
                        There are bunch of beautiful settlement in Annapurna region depending upon the area  and the way of building the houses differ place to place that makes the settlement unique from otheres. In this blog today we are talking about one village from Annapurna circuit way. The name of the village that we going to talk is Pisang. 

Upper Pisang

 The Pisang village is located at the altitude of 3250M above the sea level. This village is divided into two different section that is Upper Pisang and Lower Pisang . The above picture is from Upper Pisang. The house build ed in the Upper Pisang are typical to the region. Lower Pisang also contains many houses following the typical way of building the house . Now due to modernization people are trying to make more western style. Actually what people doing with western style is they are doing the fusion between them.

Lower Pisang & Upper Pisang in distance

The Pisang village is located in Manang district between Dhikur Pokhari and Humde village. The village is very rich in flora-fauna & culture-heritage. The people living in the Pisang village are all Manangis(one of the tribe group from Annapurna Circuit Region) they speak local dialects close to Tibetean Language.

Valley view from Upper Pisang on a snowy day.

The main occupation of the people is tourism like most of the local who are living in the village are mostly engaged with tourism business and their secondary business is animal husbandary, herbs collection, agriculture and service.