Tag: South Asia

Nepal, Travel Words

Kathmandu Travel Highlights

Kathmandu, Nepal  is crowded and hectic and noisy and polluted.  And yet somehow I find myself liking it even more every time I pass back through between adventures further afield. When I got back from 36 days of trekking near Everest, I gorged on delicious Indian food that I hadn’t had […]

China, Nepal, Travel Words

Wind Horses in Flight

In Tibetan Buddhist culture, prayer flags are an ever-present reminder of religiosity in the course of day-to-day affairs. In every instance of this cultural background that I’ve seen, from the far north of Mongolia and south to the Himalayas of Nepal, I’d seen prayer flags fluttering everywhere but never made […]

Nepal, Photo Blogs

Kathmandu Monkey Temple

In the three weeks I spent studying for the GRE, the only real tourist site I made a point to visit was Swayambunath, the Monkey Temple.  About 10 minutes after I showed up, one of those surprisingly violent monsoon rains rolled in out of nowhere.  After passing the time chatting […]

Nepal, Travel Words

Charging Rhinos in Chitwan

I came across this little lady while walking through Nepal’s Chitwan National Park with two guides and two randoms, and we were all stoked to spot some cool wildlife after spending most of the day fruitlessly looking. As we cut through the forest on a barely trodden path, our guide […]