Drying of Wool of Bhaktapur

Every neighborhood in the fascinating medieval city of Bhaktapur has at its center an enormous swimming pool where the water used to be kept. Nowadays, these beautiful ponds still contain water, but they are dirty and the water is often tinged with some unusual colors. This is because the former reservoirs today are used to wash the freshly dyed wool. The wool industry is entirely handmade. For this reason, the basins are surrounded by water colors and long wooden poles, to hang the wool on sunny days to dry.