Respecting the Earth through Experiential Learning and Adventure
When I was young, there was no internet and no social media. ‘Social media’ meant actually meeting up with your friends in the light...
Issue 197 | April 2018
Nepal’s adventure tourism market is growing, and along with it, the market for motorbike tours. With better bikes being available in Nepal, and a growing number of people...
When I was young, there was no internet and no social media. ‘Social media’ meant actually meeting up with your friends in the light...
Since opening up to the outside in the early 1950s, and especially after the arrival of Westerners in large numbers from the late 1960s...
The concept of World Heritage Sites (WHS) was created as an international movement for protecting heritages after World War I. The 1972 UNESCO Convention,...
It is literally the very center of the capital, and so it’s always a crowded place, with throngs all around crowding around the many...
Are you a traveler, writer, or arm-chair explorer interested in other cultures and peoples, beyond the bounds of your neighborhood, town, or...
We make, learning about leadership and teambuilding programs to various corporate houses because they are experiential, challenging and fun Adventure learning at The Last Resort pushes back...
With the Nepali New Year around the corner and warmer weather finally upon us, we turn to some tasty libations for this months ‘Five Things to Do—or Drink—in Nepal....
Eating weeds, while something of a pastime in childhood, never occurred to me as a particularly good idea. Perhaps it was my Brahmin childhood, where food...
“I kind of fell into racing at the long end!” –Ultra-runner Lizzy Hawker After just five minutes’ conversation with Lizzy Hawker, I was in awe. All I...
Bhaktapur is a pretty ancient city that, from a bird’s eye view, is supposed to have the shape of a flying pigeon, and besides being the...
For those of us who may never see Tibet, one high corner of Nepal is preserving Tibetan Buddhist culture beautifully. Buddhists don’t celebrate Dashain (although they do, Tihar), and at...
We reached the Manakamana Temple at Dalchowki early in the evening. As the sun peaked high above us and gently dissolved behind the green hills and wide-open landscapes,...
As a Scottish artist, I had an interest in painting mountains from an early age. I developed my style of painting using a limited color scheme...
Here is an excerpt from the timeline of the Nepalese Civil War, mostly related to incidents that occurred in western Nepal. It makes for interesting reading, to say the least....
There were many memorable moments during the recent visit I made to Temple Tiger, the venerable resort now located on the outskirts of Chiwan National Park. Some of these include...
For those who love to get out of the city and head up the hills, the outskirts of Kathmandu Valley present endless possibilities for hikers, and all one...
I’ve been searching for a good hammock, and I’ve found a Nepal-produced piece of resting perfection. They’re made by a tight team of three just outside Kathmandu. Since the business...
When he sold his first painting to a curio-shop at Basantapur at the age of 13, Udaya Charan Shrestha’s happiness knew no bounds. It was a painting of a Vajrayogini...
Santosh Rai traded his raft paddles for a pair of bicycle pedals 16 years ago, and hasn’t stopped mountain biking since. From exploring the country through the whitewaters...