Evangeline Neve

There’s no other like it in the Kathmandu Valley: the stupa of “multiple auspicious doors,” a white structure with 120 niches that sits in the shadow of its...

Many subjects of our craft section come to our attention via research, but The White Yak caught my my eye in the best, old fashioned way: word of...

There are many new and interesting craft shops in the valley—with more opening all the time—yet somehow Dhukuti still holds a special place in my heart. It’s where...

When I’m dreaming of my next break or weekend getaway, I tend, like many of us I suppose, to consult my mental list of places I haven’t been to yet....

Walking into Pia’s showroom in Kulimha, down a lane off Patan Durbar Square, I had just one thought, I wish my house looked like this; this is what...

One of the things I love about my job has been the opportunity to meet fascinating people and learn new things. From March 8-10, 2019, I had the chance to...

Until just last month, I thought skiing in Nepal was only accessible to high-end tourists at very expensive rates, flying off in helicopters to far away locations. A few years...

The coffee arrived in delicate porcelain which I knew, even before I checked the bottom of the saucer, were made by Limoges, the prestigious French porcelain makers; the letters RF—République...

Over the years I’ve heard and read about grains that used to be widely eaten in various parts of Nepal but which have now become so uncommon as to...

Intangible heritage is a phrase that’s been coming up more and more in Kathmandu these days, but what is it, exactly? Here’s one of the clearest—and I find rather beautiful—ways...

The dim lighting and the long, narrow room that span the front of Patan Museum’s middle floor were an apt backdrop for the exhibit we had come to see. Art,...

“We are in the middle of history,” the man said to me, almost conspiratorially. He was a stranger—a German tourist judging by his accent—and we were at the back of...