5 Things to do this Summer
Here in Nepal, it is getting hotter with every passing day. The summer season will be with us for two more months and people are doing all they can to...
Issue 200 | July 2018
Lumbini Heritage Home bed & breakfast is the kind of place that you probably wouldn’t find if you didn’t know it was there. This, however, is a good...
Here in Nepal, it is getting hotter with every passing day. The summer season will be with us for two more months and people are doing all they can to...
When it comes to restaurants I like, I admit to being pretty boring: a creature of habit, if you will. The reason is simple – if they have...
This is the 200th issue of the country’s leader in culture and lifestyle publications—ECS Nepal—a milestone in every sense of the word. It has taken eighteen long years...
Figure 1. Mt. Makalu (8481 m), Makalu-Barun National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal (photograph by A. Byers). Introduction: Between October and November, 2017 I spent 26 days...
“During my trek in Nepal I often though about Pam and felt I was seeing and experiencing all she had missed. And now, (at home in the U.K.) as I...
Reconstruction of heritage has risen to the top of priorities in the world of development post- earthquake. Even as the aftershocks continued to hit after the 2015 earthquake,...
It’s not easy being a hippy. Even if embracing the flowing clothes, dangling necklaces, open sandals, and flowers in the hair is not too hard, there is all...
Most people will remember Susal Stebbins as one of those sweet persons who would never say anything to upset you. Always polite and attentive to what you were saying, she...
Through film, a Nepali village begins to grapple with domestic violence For two years in 1989 and 1990, Damian Jones lived in Ratanpur, a village in the...
I was penniless. At last the good Lord had granted me one of my greatest wishes—to be literally on the sidewalk (footpath ma, as we say in Nepali, meaning, homeless,...
‘Sirandala’ is what it sounded like. I never saw the name in print, for it is not marked on any map though it is a village of some...
Lishor Kulu was seventeen when his father, Santa Lal Kulu, passed away. So, at a young age, he was obliged to handle his family business of traditional percussion instruments that...
Sudin K.C. is setting out to experience his country—all of it—from the ground up. Have you heard of the Great Himalayan Trail? It’s the name for a general collection...
The inquisitive animal transformed into a fierce beast as soon as he saw the flash of light. He placed his ears backwards and enlarged his pupils, keeping his mouth open,...
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...
As we entered the Maya Devi Temple complex in Lumbini, I could hear the murmur of tourists although the area is a silence zone. At a distance, three...
Running errands down at the end of New Road recently, my hurried pace was brought to an abrupt halt by a wobble from the rear of my scooter that any...
The earliest description of Nepal was written in 1811 by Sir William Kirkpatrick, An account of the History of Nepaul, and published in London. It was then spelt...
Ever cross a ‘parri’? Here’s your chance, vicariously. I’ve had fun recently perusing mountaineering books dating back over half a century looking for dangerous river walks. Wow,...