Kapil Bisht

In a recent dream, I was in a room with the travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux. We exchanged pleasantries. I asked him what his favorite book was. He mentioned...

Bardia National Park captivates visitors thoroughly, whether they are inside the wilderness or in their hotel rooms. The bus stopped at a security check post on a dark...

You can spoil (or punish) yourself with the dishes at Patan’s local restaurants. It seemed like my guide for the day, a local who knew Patan’s labyrinthine alleys like...

Someone came into the room where my cousins and I were getting ready for the ceremony and gave to each one of us a rectangular piece of yellow cloth a...

A green leaf fell from the tree just outside our boundary wall. It sailed confetti-like, twirling, dipping and rising a few inches, as though two invisible forces were...

The museums of the Kathmandu Valley give visitors glimpses of the past and serve as reminders of the cultural riches that are everywhere in the valley. ...

Get a pet. I am not sure if any writer ever gave that advice to his peers, but writers seem to have a thing for pets. The...

The three Durbar Squares of the Kathmandu Valley captivate with the richness of their architectural heritage. But those who know what they were like before the 1934 earthquake also feel...

Pokhara plays the perfect host to lovers of the outdoors, adrenaline junkies, sybarites, holiday-makers, and leaves each one feeling it is a place made just for them ...

Isabella Tree’s book, The Living Goddess: A Journey into the Heart of Kathmandu came out in April. Tree spoke to Kapil Bisht about coming to Kathmandu as a teenager, pursuing...

One of my favorite memories from my childhood in the Terai is of the sight of the first monsoon rain that arrived from the south. After months of relentless heat...

A trek to one of Nepal’s last true wildernesses reveals it will remain so for a while. Vultures came swooping down from the hill to the east,...