New Hand at the Helm
With over three decades of experience in the hospitality industry, Mrs. Shreejana Rana, the executive director of Hotel Annapurna, becomes the first woman to...
Issue 211 | June 2019
Lord Shiva, ‘The Auspicious One’, goes by more than one thousand names, four of which are— Omkara (creator of ‘Om’ the Hindu sacred chant), Trilokpati (supreme ruler of the three...
With over three decades of experience in the hospitality industry, Mrs. Shreejana Rana, the executive director of Hotel Annapurna, becomes the first woman to...
Indrakala is painting on cloth that will be sewn into cones for giant textile ice creams. The cones are intricately painted with designs she learned from her mother, who learned...
Among the many jatras happening throughout the valley each year, the Rato Machhindranath Jatra stands out for being the biggest and longest jatra of Patan, and featuring the...
If you’re searching for a perfect getaway nearby Kathmandu Valley, it can be hard to know which to choose, especially when there are multiple destinations and adventures to choose from....
You may have seen him examining the seven World Heritage Site monument zones around the Kathmandu Valley with a friendly smile on his face. While his work as...
As the weather gets hotter and hotter each day, everyone’s looking for a way to stay cool. One great suggestion is the Chandragiri Hills—its close by the valley, and as...
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....
Most of my friends look with shock when I talk about swimming in the Bagmati River during school lunch-breaks in my early years. It used to be a clean river;...
Woven opened its first outlet in Pokhara in 2016, quickly expanding to six stores located in the tourist hubs of Lakeside, Pokhara, and Thamel, Kathmandu. In all of...
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...
Of all the hikes I’ve done, this was the most unusual; it was all downhill. As with all things, or almost all things in life, there is a...
Those were the days when the upscale residential district that includes what is now known as ‘Jhamel’ was so desolate that wolves and foxes roamed around freely once the sun...
Imagine visiting Vienna, the capital of classical music, the fabled land of prolific music composers, the land of Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and...
“It is the tiger of nursery rhymes, the tiger of nightmares, the tiger our imagination conjures when the word itself is spoken.” (Dane Huckelbridge) ...