Pokhara's Fish Tail
There are many reasons to visit Pokhara, Nepal's premier lakeside resort nestled in a valley surrounded by the Annapurna range of the Himalayas, topped by snow-capped peaks such...
There are many reasons to visit Pokhara, Nepal's premier lakeside resort nestled in a valley surrounded by the Annapurna range of the Himalayas, topped by snow-capped peaks such...
"Where are you staying in Pokhara?” asked my seat companion on the Yeti flight from Kathmandu. I told him that I wasn’t staying at any hotel but going for treatment...
Astrange cry drew my attention to the sky. “Sarus cranes,” said naturalist Dinesh Giri, “the world’s largest flying birds.” We were sitting outside at Lumbini Buddha Gardens resort a kilometer...
Lhasa is about the same distance from Kathmandu as Delhi—about 700 km—as the crow flies, and the flying time is just under an hour. But somehow—culturally, linguistically or geographically—Delhi seems...
It was fitting, I suppose, that my colleague Jill who just “adores” the mountains—which leave me cold—should get a room facing Mt. Machapuchare, while my room looked on the courtyard...
The woman at the tour desk of the Kathmandu Guest House handed me my tickets to Lumbini on Buddha Air “how appropriate”, I thought. I flew out late Saturday night...
"Grave Incident At Narayanhiti Royal Palace" with unaccustomed oriental understatement proclaimed the headlines of one of Kathmandu’s Nepali dailies that published the horrific news of the demise of Nepal’s royal...
Glancing at the large dining table of the cluttered uptown Manhattan apartment, I notice a funereal white orchid occupying pride of place, a curved spray of cymbidiums planted in a...