Archive for the ‘Nepal Sights’ Category
Kicking Kirtipur
It would appear that Kirtipur, the small town south-west of Kathmandu, has finally hit the big time. First it was the success of the community-run Newa Lahana that drew youth on motorbikes; then a series of festivals staged in the surrounds of the restaurant; and now it’s the five-day Kirtipur Mahotsav, the 2011 edition of [...]
Planet Nepal down at earth
Despite the distractions of Jazzmandu, I made my way to Patan Durbar Square before Tihar to catch the first evening of the Planet Nepal dhamaka, simply because there seemed to be a lot going on in this city of not much going on most of the time. Music, installations, films, roundtables, and all for a [...]
Off-road rambles and stomach rumbles by the Narayani
Narayanghat is little more than a highway town, and a weekend on its outskirts, skirting the Narayani River, left me with few impressions of the city itself. Of course I remember the river, cityside of Chitwan National Park. We camped on the beach, failed to hook a single fish, and drowned our sorrows in [...]
Nepal goes to India, literally
Lest conscientious readers imagine I’ve been dawdling by the Trishuli these past six months, well, it’s not so. But I’ll pick up where I left off, starting last week.
Further down from Kurintar lies the fishing village of Malekhu, where sticks of deep-fried fish still slow traffic, even if their provenance is more likely a fish [...]
By the brown muddy river
A steaming summer weekend in Kurintar’s Riverside Springs Resort on the flip side of the standard lunch stop-over enroute to a trek in Pokhara, and a world of difference is revealed. It’s all in the seasons after all. In spring particularly, the landscape itself is enroute to dessication, and as you wolf down your buffet [...]
