January 2020
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No lovelier spot than Kakani
At Jim Edwards surprise 50th birthday celebration at the British Ambassador’s Kakani bungalow are Col Jimmy Roberts, Elizabeth Hawley, Uttara […]
January 28, 2020
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Nepal: a family’s destination
Misty jeep drives in Chitwan National Park. Photo: Rufus Van Gruisen t was our mother’s idea to do a family […]
January 13, 2020
December 2019
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Seize the coming decade
Tiger Mountain Pokhara Lodge has won the Conde Nast Traveler Best Ecolodge, National Geographic Global Top 50 EcoLodges and Conservation […]
December 30, 2019
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Ghosts of Christmas past
A wintery morning elephant safari viewing rhinos amidst the morning mists of Chitwan grasslands 25 December 2006 lthough it is […]
December 18, 2019
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Writing about writing
Californian writing mentor Laurie Wagner (left) and poet James Hopkins (second left), convene sessions of the Himalayan Writers Workshop to […]
December 2, 2019
November 2019
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The trips before TripAdvisor
Hillary Clinton, then First Lady of the US, brought her own press corps of over 40 media followers during her […]
November 18, 2019
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Champions of Nepal’s conservation movement
King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya with Jim Edwards in May 1988 t was the most splendid of glittering weddings. Fairy […]
November 1, 2019
October 2019
Marco Polo, the film that was never made
Marco Polo’s Odyssey became one of the world’s first best sellers f you want to be remembered, write it down. […]
October 15, 2019
September 2019
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Dad’s deception
My father Michael van Gruisen with my sons Sangjay and Rinchen and cousin Rebecca in 1993 he dark interior of […]
September 23, 2019
Bhutan is on the move
The Druk Air fleet at home in Paro airport ur flight arrived 45 minutes early. “Only in Bhutan, never in Nepal,” grinned […]
September 9, 2019