I've heard of Area 51 but not the Tianluokeng tulou cluster. It's a shame, really. The former being absolutely geographically unrela...

The aluminium plates were each a piece of art, characteristically malled by the years they'd served. So impressive as well were the stea...

A main course at Thamel House Restaurant Every Nepali meal that I had was a feast of colours and flavours. The fact that these restaurants a...

Thukpa from Yangling A few years back, I spent a night in Di Qing, a Tibetan County in the Yunnan Province, China. It's also known local...

Smoke engulfs the ghats behind the temple. At the riverbank, a deceased burns in the wooden pyre. A few steps away, the cremains of another ...

One of the issues that I'd observed in Kathmandu was electricity rationing or load shedding, as they call it. As the demand for electric...

There was a signpost at a corner of the southwestern part of Kathmandu's Durbar Square, near the Kasthamandap, that pointed towards Maru...

Bhaktapur Durbar Square Great, I was nowhere on the map! My first instinct was to follow the stream of people. It may sound like a great ide...

Most of the time, I’m proud of my self-planned itineraries, which are both practical and comprehensive. But not in Bhaktapur, no. At Sunny C...