
The village of Mandre -- or what is left of it -- is unnervingly empty. There are no shelters pitched next to the ruined homes.

While most villagers have gone down to safer plains, a few remain in the collapsed village of Mandre.

In Mandre village, a Winnie the Pooh plush toy lies in the rubble.

A former school lies completely destroyed in Mandre, Nepal.

CNN cameraman Brice Laine films boulders that have tumbled down the mountainside, blocking a road.

As the CNN team treks through the mountains, they come across small villages that are completely destroyed.

A digging machine lies crushed in the aftermath of the earthquake.

Barpak, a village at the epicenter of the deadly Nepal earthquake, lies in tatters.

Ninety-five percent of the homes in Barpak are destroyed -- those that survived are made of brick and concrete, as opposed to the stone and timber construction that predominates.

A man rebuilds his home in Barpak.

Sunil Bishokerma reaches his family members in Barpak village. "My god, they are okay," he says.

Santi Sunar, Sunil's cousin, and her son Ayus survived the earthquake -- but their village is now a sea of debris.

A boy from Barpak clears rubble. Here, at the earthquake's epicenter, aid has been frustratingly slow in arriving.