This woman is carrying a basket full of barley after she has washed and socked the barley into a river.

Now, the socked barley has to dry off half way through. So, it is easy to roast.

"Tsoks" one of various foods made out of Tsampa. The term Tsok can be translated as offering. It literally means to earn good karmas. Tsoks are ritually offered to Boudhas and then, ask Boudhas to bless the Tsoks. When the ritual process is completed, Tsoks are considered as blessing and can't be treated as normal foods.

The main recipes for Tsok include Tsampa, butter, cheese, jiggery, and water. After making Tsok shape as you can see, Tsoks are red colored and put three dots of butter known as Kargen: white ornaments.

Mr. Tsering Konchok is well unknown for his skills at carving wood. He is the master of carpenter. The villagers say, " he carves wood like butter". His works can be seem in the monasteries and individual houses in Limi.

As you can imagine, all works at the village are done with simple tools. Tsering has no education in geometry and all his measurement are taken length either his hands, or arms.

Most household has a shrine, where they place statues of Buddhas and holy books. Still today, carpenters in Limi carve various wooden furnitures and alters.

Mr. Rangdol work as wood-worker. He make household wooden utentils, ladders, doors, and furnitures. Some of his products are sold in Purang; western Tibet, in the exchange of salts, tea, rice, carrocine and other foods and requirementsb

These people are making producing cooking oil. The system is that first smash the mustard seeds, second, cook the seeds, third, pack the seeds in a bag, fourth tie the bag around a strong rope, fifth place the seed bag between a specially designed stone and a strong log a foot wide and 8 feet long, sixth place big stones on top of the log.

The process is repeated at least two. The left-over mustard seeds are feed to animails and known to make them very strong.

These work are growing vegestables. Each family has their own vegetable field. Nowadays, people grow several types of vegetables such as radish, lates, potatos, and so on.

These Nepalese blacksmiths makes farming tools for Limi people. As it is a part of Tibetan culture to make different caste of people like Indian. Blacksmith are known as the lowest caste and physical even contact is avoided. Therefore, in three villages of Limi has no single blacksmith although caste of a family is traced to bloodline and no has the power to change it.

These men are building a house. As you can see, contrets are solely made out of stones. Enternal and external plastering with mud. Doors and windows are made out of wood and roofing is done with log, bush, and mud.

This woman is spinning string to make clothing like "Ges": Tibetan long dress. Women makes fine strings out of wool. Then, three string combine together to make one strong string. Then, next process is to weave the strings to make fabric. To complete a "Ges" takes minimum two years for a woman. A woman has so many other things to do. There is a saying, "don't fold your hands up unless you don't have fingers". This means, you need to do something while you are in home. The saying is absolutely true because all villagers have somethings to do whenever and wherever they are.

These women are carrying fire-wood. One of the parmanent women's works in Limi is to go to collect fire woods. A local rules says, "a stem of tree which can hold a small bird is barley full of Ba-Sar-Gang". This rule says, if you cut off a stem of a living tree, you are penalized to pay about a one Kilogram of barley. Ba-Sar-Gang is a measurement. The local rules of Limi were the laws of Tibet when Tibet was a free country. To collect cooking-wood is one of the most difficult women's work. Especially, because of few unfortunate death incidents, many women hate to cross rivers with wood loads on their backs.

Many women's families have to collect fire-wood for the village monasteries as their serve or payment to the monastery. The monasteries use large quantities of woods.

The men of Limi travel and bring foods and other things home. In Limi, there is no local shop or store to buy simple things as matches, salt, tea. Every family has to go to purchase their needs either from Purang, western Tibet or Simikot, the Humla district headquater town. Both destinations are no close from Limi. To get to Purang, they have to travel two or three days. Some times, they have to pass the Chineses border check-post. To get to Simikot, it takes three days. The path they have is only a meter wide. Some part of journey get really difficult to travel, espacially when they have new animals to bring to Limi.

Elderly people enjoy the sunlight and "Chang" Tibetan barley wine. Many old men and women recite Mantras with their prayer wheel and rosary. There are several common mantras known by all people and each mantra stand for essence of a particular Buddhas' teaching.

This woman is fetching water with her son.