Perhaps the foreigner in Nepal just isn’t meant to understand the local mindset. Consider this example: a few days ago, an elephant at the breeding centre near Chitwan National Park unexpectedly calved twins, an extremely rare occurrence among elephants
The whole point of coming to Nepal and the basis of this entire trip to the subcontinent was to walk the Annapurna Circuit in the Himalayas during the best month for weather and visibility. Twenty-four days later, Wendy and I can look back at this trek
Having seen a goat and a handful of roosters being slaughtered by decapitation two days ago at a sacrificial temple – with the barefooted faithful stepping on the blood-smeared floor afterwards – I think we’ve probably exhausted the sights and sou
As detailed in my last post, I had just a few days left on my Visa so I had planned to do a couple of days at Buddha’s birthplace in the little village of Lumbini, about 22 kms from the Indian border. I had whittled my time down to five days, loungin
It seems like nearly every day in the Kathmandu Valley, you see another UNESCO World Heritage site - we visited two yesterday afternoon alone, and have seen six so far in our first eight days in the country. (Though, unless the Indian embassy in Kathmandu
