Written by SeenThat on November 24, 2005
- The third largest town in the Kathmandu Valley is 14km southeast from the capital and has the best Durbar Squre, and the best-conserved temples, the most beautiful stone-monsters, the highest pagodas in the country, and...
Written by deeMunk on February 2, 2006
- Food is a big part of the cultural landscape of Kathmandu. The Newars, one of the original ethnic groups in Kathmandu, are especially known to celebrate countless festivals year round, almost all of which involve...
Written by Ozzy-Dave on January 2, 2002
- Not Trekking in Nepalby Dave Underwood
Talk to anyone about a trip to Nepal and the focus turns to treks through exhilarating
mountain panoramas and visions of exhausting uphill battles, smelly feet and thermal
underwear. True,...
Written by Ozzy-Dave on January 2, 2002
- Where Have All The Freaks Gone?by Dave Underwood
"Let’s check out Freak Street first. It sounds like fun, and the guidebooks say it’s right in the centre of the old city," I said to Karen.
We were...
Written by Alan Ingram on August 19, 2001
- The 220 mile trek around the great, semi-circular, multi-summitted Annapurna massif takes some 20 days to complete and is one of the classic journeys through the Nepal Himalaya.
Starting amid lush, sub-tropical rice-paddies the route...
Written by Alan Ingram on July 10, 2001
- Annapurna - " Goddess Mother of the Harvests " - is, like Everest, a secluded peak. Although its 8000 metre summit may be glimpsed from Phewa Lake in Pokhara, protruding on the far horizon between...
Written by allain on October 1, 2000
- One morning we tried to rediscover Kathmandu Durbar square. We had the chance to see the Kumari, the goddess of Nepal. She is a young girl, who was chosen by very strict criterias. She is...
Written by Rick on April 19, 2001
- Kathmandu is a truly wonderful city. One could call it an open air museum indeed. The Durbar Square for instance is littered with all kinds of temples which are built in their typical multi-roofed style,...
Written by trainjunkie on February 28, 2005
- Today I was going to navigate an area called Thamel. Thamel is the main tourist section of Kathmandu and full of Western tourists who resemble a flashback to the hippie days of the 1960s.
Thamel...
Written by stevepage on November 19, 2002
- Terrorism is a fact of life in most of the countries in the world, Nepal is just the same. At the moment there is much talk of a terrorist war but from experience the media...
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