Kathmandu Articles
Full Moon at Mani Rimdu (4 of 5)We hiked along a wide, well-trodden path connecting Phaplu to Saleri (about forty minutes at a leisurely pace). On Saturday market day, the thoroughfare would swell with a flow of porters, merchants carrying produce, monks riding horseback, and local townsfolk, but this day, we had most of the road to ourselves. We [...]
Full Moon at Mani Rimdu (3 of 5)The Hotel del Sherpa, our home base for the next six days, brought eclecticism to new heights of grandeur. A cross between a four star Swiss ski resort and a painstakingly frescoed Buddhist monastery, this lodge embraced the best of spiritual aura and creature comforts – woodburning stoves [...]
Full Moon at Mani Rimdu (1 of 5)Chris Card Fuller hiked to the Chiwong monastery i
Kathmandu, Nepal – September 1999First Impressions
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Kathmandu, NepalFirst Impressions
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The Millennium Trip – Letter #8Namaste everyone,
I love Kathmandu. I am sorry, but I do. Without doubt it has been the most tourist-orientated city so far, unquestionably the most expensive. Despite all this, despite myself, I have been seduced by it’s filter coffees, it’s sit-down loos and it’s supermarkets selling Gillette shaving blades and Werther’s Original [...]
Namaste All,
Like an infection, I seemed to pick up some bad karma in India. In Agra,
while walking around the Taj Mahal in the 43°C heat, I caught
bronchitis. The following morning I woke early and took a cycle rickshaw to the station in time to catch my 1st Class air-conditioned – with free breakfast [...]
