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Pharping

Mon, 11 Nov 2013 | By krodin | Views [7220]

Pharping Pharping is a small village SW of Kathmandu and one that if one didn’t know what was there would be easy to overlook as there are just a couple of dirt roads with vending stalls for local trade. Outside of the town on the hillside, ... Read more >

Nepalgunj - back to the 'gunj

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 | By over-40 | Views [6866] | Comments [5]

We caught the local bus from Tansen down to Butwal, then changed at the bus park to a Nepalgunj bus with no trouble at all. This time the bus was smaller, so there was no room for goats or potatoes. We got to Nepalgunj without any 'banda' interruptions ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

Regicide in Kathmandu

Tue, 28 Jul 2015 | By shantysan | Views [1079] | Comments [1]

STUNTEDMIND June 2001 REGICIDE IN KATHMANDU: A Family Turned Against Itself By Sandy Powlik I LEFT NEPAL on May 23, 2001. I had been over there ... Read more >

Tags: canada, crown prince, himalaya, kathmandu, king binendra, king guyanendra, nepal, regicide, royal family, royal immunity

ma-laai nepal man parchha ( I really like nepal)

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 | By elawlor | Views [963] | Comments [1]

I have thirty minutes left on my internet session. I write to you from Pokhara, Nepal, a little lakeside town next the annapurnas, reaching higher than 8000 metres. It isn't always clear out, but when it is, I can hardly contain my exctitment when I ... Read more >

Another video

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 | By sylvia_aiko | Views [891] | Video

This is what happens in Nepal and India: tourists are constantly accosted by holy men (or sometimes fake holy men in real holy men costumes.) Who then proceed to face paint you and ask for money. Ah, the way to spiritual enlightenment...

Cat Man Do

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 | By deli | Views [829]

Hot tears sting my eyes as I make the 30 meter or so walk through "no man's land" on the border between India and Nepal. I am feeling my difference profoundly as I walk. The Nepalese army (?) police (?) guys are scrutinizing me - hard -... Read more >

Tags: trekking

tracking towards Everest (but leaving it for next time)

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 | By pocoloco | Views [536]

The good news (although a bit late) is that NZ made the finals for the Rugby World Cup. Off course you will all know that, but we didn't until yesterday. Lots of sky here but no Sky Sport. Anyway, Mika is now in Gokyo, where there is a temporary medical ... Read more >

Nepal

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 | By ag | Views [488]

Some people are born for the mountains. Others are not. If Veronika falls into the former category, I definitely fall into the latter. However, team player that I am, I was all for it (kind of…) when we decided to make Nepal our ... Read more >

A Local Encounter that Changed my Perspective - The yak butter girl

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 | By radost | Views [461] | Scholarship Entry

The girl comes unexpectedly in my world on top of the clouds. It's that time of the day here, in the Himalayas, when it's me and nothing below. Milky-white fog moves swiftly and devours the peaks and mountains. I'm writing my journal when she walks up ... Read more >

Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2013

A Kathmandu Christmas

Fri, 15 May 2015 | By | Views [307] | Scholarship Entry

It was Christmas Day. I was sitting in a rooftop restaurant, staring across as a neat crocodile of Nepalese school children staggered up uneven stairs, past statues of elephants and lions, to the imposing pagoda temple which towered over the square.... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship