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Issue 197 | April 2018

The Thump that Binds

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...

FAR OUT

FAR OUT

Since opening up to the outside in the early 1950s, and especially after the arrival of Westerners in large numbers from the late 1960s...

On Writing Abroad

On Writing Abroad

Are you a traveler, writer, or arm-chair explorer interested in other cultures and peoples, beyond the bounds of your neighborhood, town, or...

Fun N Learn @ The Last Resort

Fun N Learn @ The Last Resort

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...

Five things to do in Nepal - April 2018

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 the Wilderness

Eating the Wilderness

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...

Runner Extraordinaire

Runner Extraordinaire

“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...

A Jatra like No Other

A Jatra like No Other

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...

Choosing the Less Trodden Path

Choosing the Less Trodden Path

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,...

In the Footprints of the Guerillas

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....

Swinging in a Himalayan Hammock

Swinging in a Himalayan Hammock

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...