Stories from the valley

Notes on Nepal, its neighbourhoods, and the people who host you.

Nepal Is Not Closed

If you have been putting off a trip because of something you half-read, this is the short version: the country

Welcoming. Safe. Beautiful. Three words that have to be earned rather than claimed, so here is what sits behin

Eight of the world's fourteen mountains above 8,000 metres stand in Nepal. Everest, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Maka

The Kathmandu Valley holds one of the densest concentrations of living heritage anywhere in Asia. Not a museum

Nepal fits a climb from 60 metres above sea level to 8,849 metres into roughly 200 kilometres of width. That i

Everyone comes to Nepal for the mountains. The ones who also go south tend to say the jungle was the surprise

Permits, porters, and the last hot shower before the trail. Here is the part nobody puts on the poster — the l

Tourism is one of Nepal's largest sources of foreign earnings and employs hundreds of thousands of people dire

With open hearts, we welcome the world. Shops open at eight, the markets are trading, and hosts across Kathman

Nepal is waiting for you. Here is the practical sequence, in the order it is worth doing it.

Come and promote tourism. Not as a slogan — as a thing you can actually do, cheaply, that matters here more th

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