The Ghandruk Ghorepani trek begins from Pokhara. Comes back to the city via Ghorepani and Ghandruk, two beautiful villages of mid-west Nepal. The trek of ABC takes you to the base camp of Annapurnas and Machhapuchhre.
A wedding ceremony? An auspicious occasion? Someone very important, a thulo manchhe, coming in the village? Play the panche baja (the five -musical- instruments). That’s still the case in many…
The New York Times and Time magazine are working closely, so to speak, to cover Nepal in the past couple of weeks. First came Jim Yardley, former Beijing bureau chief…
Poon Hilai ma, phool jasto sundari… A morning in Poon Hill. We started walking up at around 6 AM. We were already late but I was determined to reach at…
Finally, I am in Ghorepani (or Ghodepani), the place that stayed in my mind after I read the description in an article published in San Francisco Chronicle. It is evening…
Where are you, tower? I want to see the Dhawalagiri Annapurna range. On way to Poon Hill!! The trek on Day Two started from Ulleri and oh…boy what a trail…
Yes, I am leaving Pokhara tomorrow morning for a week long Annapurna Trek. Two American girls, students of photography, will be traveling with me. So I will not be alone.…
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