Choosing a Nepal Trek: Seven Routes, From Seven Days to Eighteen
Everest Base Camp is not the answer to every Nepal question. Seven routes compared on the two things that actually decide it: how many days you have, and how high you are willing to sleep.
Nepal After the Rasuwa Flood: A Travel Update for Visitors
On 26 August a glacier collapse near the Tibet border sent a devastating flood through central Nepal. Here is what happened, which parts of the country are affected, and what it means for anyone planning a trip to Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan, or the trekking regions.
Nepal's Constitution Day, 20 September: The Country That Has No Independence Day
Nepal has no Independence Day, because Nepal was never colonised. Constitution Day on 20 September stands in its place, and the reason behind that absence explains a great deal about what a traveller finds in the Kathmandu Valley.
The Kathmandu Valley Is Three Cities, Not One
Most itineraries give the Kathmandu Valley a day at each end of a trek. It holds three medieval cities and seven UNESCO monument zones, and it rewards an unhurried visit on its own terms.
The Morning You Couldn't Have Arranged Yourself
The difference between seeing Nepal and being let into it is timing and access no booking site can sell you, the gift of a local operator who knows the hour.
The Two Nepals, and Why You Cannot Use One Guide for Both
Nepal divides cleanly into two destinations that share an airport but demand entirely different expertise. The guide who reads weather on a high pass is not the guide who can read a temple strut.
What First-Time Visitors Get Wrong About Nepal
Most people file Nepal under strenuous trekking and never look further. That assumption rules out one of Asia's richest cultural destinations for the exact travellers who would love it most.