{"id":17939,"date":"2014-05-18T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=17939"},"modified":"2014-05-18T01:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T08:00:03","slug":"shopping-stories-to-the-himalayas-and-back-in-a-day-and-duty-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/shopping-stories-to-the-himalayas-and-back-in-a-day-and-duty-free\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Himalayas and Back — In a Day and Duty Free"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An array of wood carvings of gods and goddesses, including contemplative Buddhas, a laughing Buddha and a Ganesh, were for sale at the 2014 Himalayan Fair. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Bay Area residents — it’s not too late to catch this year’s Himalayan Fair at Live Oak Park in Berkeley. Today’s the second and last day of the annual celebration of the cultures of Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and North India — and a terrific shopping opportunity.<\/p>\n

The food is great — long lines for those soul-satisfying momo dumplings. Also definitely worth<\/p>\n

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Hundreds showed up on Saturday for music, dance, food and handmade goods. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

a day trip to Berkeley: the good prices on jewelry, ethnic clothing, silk and pashmina scarves, antique carpets, prayer beads and flags, thangkas, carved wooden gods and goddesses — and hand-made just about everything.<\/p>\n

Can’t make it this year? Watch for the 32nd annual Himalayan Fair next year.<\/p>\n

More stories about my favorite places at “Quirky, Loveable Austin, Texas,”<\/a>\u00a0 “Four Good Reasons to Go to Atotonilco, Mexico,”<\/a>\u00a0 and\u00a0 “Am I Scotch* — Or Midwestern?”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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At the Himalayan Fair: A woman with a yellow parasol . . .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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. . . and a Buddha with blue skin. Photos by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Himalayan Fair
\nSunday, May18, 2014, 10 am to 5:30 pm, Live Oak Park, 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA. Admission is free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Kathmandu artist and shopowner Akka Lama makes the trip each year to the\u00a0 fair. This year he brought dozens of hand-painted Buddhist thangkas. In the foreground, the goddess White Tara with traditional cloth framing. Photo by BF Newhal<\/em>l<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Anatolian handwoven long carpet, $400.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Thick wool children’s slippers, Nepal, $5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Beaded necklaces $5 to $20. Photos by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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One-of-a-kind wool scarves are first boiled to soften them, then embroidered, $65 each. Photos by BF Newhal<\/em>l<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tibetan traditional flowered blouse, silk skirt and heavy silk striped apron, $95 at the Himalayan Fair Berkeley, 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The god Yamantaka, detail of a hand-painted thangka from Nepal. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Bay Area residents — it’s not too late to catch this year’s Himalayan Fair at Live Oak Park in Berkeley. Today’s the second and last day of the annual celebration of the cultures of Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and North India — and a terrific shopping opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[653,1214,1215,34,1216,1217,1218,31,91,814,1219,33],"class_list":["post-17939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-arts-and-crafts","tag-berkeley","tag-buddha","tag-dont-miss","tag-ganesh","tag-himalayan-fair","tag-nepal","tag-photo-ops","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-shopping-stories","tag-thangkas","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}