Destinations

Nepal | Martin O'Brien | Nepal, Kathmandu, Kathmandu

Many travellers will ride an elephant through lowland Terai in search of the Royal Bengal tiger, many more will explore the shangri-la valley of Kathmandu

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A Journey to the Roof of the Mind | Jonathan Begg | Nepal, Kathmandu, Kathmandu

Like Kafka’s castle, the high Himalayas are always there, looking close enough to touch, yet tantalisingly out of reach

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Kathmandu: Shiva's Night Out | Isabella Tree | Nepal, Kathmandu, Kathmandu

Smoking hashish is an obligatory function of the sadhu, or holy man - part of his ‘darshan’, his divine gift of communication with god; and for the three days of Shivaratri the Nepalese authorities who usually subscribe to the school of ‘zero tolerance’, turn a blind eye to all the bleary shenanigans going on down at the ancient golden temple of Pashupatinath.

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Skull Drums and Thigh Bone Trumpets | Isabella Tree | Nepal, Kathmandu, Kathmandu

This almost jocund familiarity with death is one of the first challenges a westerner faces when encountering Tibetan Buddhism. “Your thigh-bones would make marvellous trumpets”, he’d exclaimed, “Would you like to leave them to our monastery?”

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