Author Archives: Alex
The Rodeo Drive experience on Tridevi Marg
Date: 23 May Location: the peaceful Garden Of Dreams, Kathmandu. Notable sightings: you really don't want to know. And then I got sick. Oh, I've seen others suffer far worse […]
Even lentil soup looks brilliant by candlelight
Date: 21 May Location: getting my feral talons and claws seen to, The Zen Experience Spa, Kathmandu. Notable sightings: a gut-wrenchingly awful drive down from Nagakot to Kathmandu; the gross […]
The Hotel At The End Of The Universe
Date: 20 May Location: Berg House, Nagarkot, just chilling and looking out at (teeny tiny in the distance) Everest whilst drinking a (massive bottle of) Everest. Notable sightings: well, Everest. […]
Monks, meditation and mantras at the monastery
Date: 19 May Location: Breakfast table, Kathmandu Guest House, Thamel. Bit over the 'buff' sausages. Notable sightings: a Monday I don't hate! Up at Neydo Monastery, waking up to observe […]
Oh, c’est la vie / Maybe something’s wrong with me
Date: 17 May Location: Fat Camp. Ok, actually yoga camp in the Neydo Monastry in the Kathmandu hills — but it really should be fat camp given how much I've […]
“Welcome to sky”
Date: 16 May Location: waiting for my turn to paraglide, the second highest peak above the Kathmandu Valley Notable sightings: the Himalayas We so like to snicker at all the […]
Cool karma collected in Kathmandu
Date: 15 May Location: the beautiful outdoor daybed, Kathmandu Guest House, Kathmandu Notable sightings: a smattering of the baby mountains of Nepal, an honest to god decent burrito. Maybe the […]
Respect Your Rhino
Date: 12 May Location: watching the sun go down over the jungle, Ghumtee Rivera Lodge, Chitwan National Park Notable sightings: one-horned rhinos! “And the bathroom situation…” This is Ravi, explaining […]
Through the vortex and into the land of silence and smiles
Date: 11 May, Mothers' Day. Location: on the road again, between Lumbini and Chitwan, Nepal. Notable sightings: the most chilled immigration imaginable; peace in the birthplace of Buddha, Lumbini, Nepal. […]
An unsettlingly big place 