"Always one to buck a trend, I decided to spend a recent trip to Kathmandu by avoiding Kathmandu as much as possible.My reasoning was simple. While I was ostensibly visiting Kathmandu to see old friends, I didn’t fancy spending any..."
The Best Travel Writing About Nepal
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Articles about Nepal
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Mountain Biking Around the Kathmandu Valley
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JB Cooper
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Nepal
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Kathmandu Region
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Kathmandu
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Nepal's Cities of Art - Patan and Bhaktapur
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Raaja Bhasin
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Nepal
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Kathmandu Region
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Patan
"The car bounced, the car bumped. The car picked up speed, the car dropped to a snail’s pace. The driver and I exchanged sweets again; he pulled them out from the scratched dashboard and I from a scratched little travellers’ tin. We stopped for a..."
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Skull Drums and Thigh Bone Trumpets
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Isabella Tree
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Nepal
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Kathmandu Region
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Kathmandu
"The famous all-seeing eyes of Boudhanath stupa gazed covertly down on us as my friend Rosa unwrapped her mysterious package on the rooftop of the Saturday Café. She had already told me what was in it but it was hard to believe. It seemed so gruesome..."
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Kathmandu: Shiva's Night Out
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Isabella Tree
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Nepal
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Kathmandu Region
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Kathmandu
"The Khadeshwar Baba had been standing on one leg for six years. He looked remarkably cheerful, though that might have been something to do with the amount of charas he’d been smoking over the last few days. He was covered head to foot in ash and..."
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A Journey to the Roof of the Mind
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Jonathan Begg
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Nepal
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Kathmandu Region
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Kathmandu
"Strange how most visitors to Nepal can dream themselves into lost turrets of experience while never actually climbing to more than about three times the height of Canary Wharf. For the plain fact is that neither Kathmandu Valley nor the popular..."
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Himalayan Trek
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Peter Carty
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Nepal
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Kathmandu Region
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Kathmandu
"The Himalayan trek was the culmination of our two months in India and Nepal. Sitting in Kathmandu we reasoned that because we had maps we could dispense with a guide. We set off on the Annapurna trail with hired sleeping bags and, for emergencies,..."
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Nepal
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Martin O'Brien
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Nepal
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Kathmandu Region
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Kathmandu
"There are few countries in the world where you can go from tropical jungle to arctic waste in the space of a hundred miles, from a sweltering 30 degrees centigrade to a bone-chilling 40 below, from southern lowlands no more than 500 feet above sea..."
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Grace Hotel, Johannesburg
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Brian Jackman
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Nepal
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Kathmandu Region
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Kathmandu
"There are few good reasons for staying in Johannesburg; but if you have to overnight here en route to the game parks, the Grace in Rosebank, 40 minutes from the International Airport, is the place to choose. Rosebank is a fashionable and leafy..."
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Kathmandu
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Louise Pyne
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Nepal
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Kathmandu Region
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Kathmandu
"Set amongst the towering heights of the Himalayas, Nepal's colourful capital city is a myriad of sensory sights, sounds and smells. Home to a melting pot of dozens of different cultures, it’s easy to see why travelers instantly fall in love..."
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Before You Die: Hit Rock Bottom at Everest Base Camp
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Philip Sen
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Nepal
"Getting this high hurts like hell. Altitude sickness can hit anyone at any time, irrespective of age, gender or fitness. Your head may be pounding, but with the forbidding peak of Everest just penetrating the heavens before you, but so what?..."
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