Category: Nepal

  • Video Dump 5: India and Nepal

    It’s time for another round-up of videos we took that didn’t quite make it into our posts. This one will cover India and Nepal. Enjoy! First, from our first stop in India, an aerial view of the madness at the Howrah flower market in Kolkata Click here to see the video from the Howrah flower…

  • Hiking in the Himalayas: The Ghorepani-Ghandruk Trek

    After washing the Holi dye off our bodies (actually we would continue to find it in our ears, nose, and between our toes for a few days to come), we set off for the main attraction of our Nepal trip: a five-day trek through the Annapurna Conservation Area, a part of the Himalayas well known…

  • Colorful Holi

    We had heard about Holi well before leaving Africa for the South Asian Subcontinent. “It’s that crazy holiday in India where everyone throws colored powder and water at each other and people just go nuts”, fellow travelers told us. So we immediately looked it up and started doing our research on where to be for…

  • Yum: Cookie Walla

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    A small sign in the bustling and over-saturated backpacker area of Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal calls to us. It’s small, shares no details, and is overpowered by the other bright signs around it, food carts, hotel- and trek touts, and live music coming from all directions, but it proclaims simply, “Cookie Walla”. We must go. We…

  • History, Religion, and Yogurt in the Kathmandu Valley

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    A few days after a precarious exit from India, my dad met us in Kathmandu: he had been looking for a chance to catch up with us somewhere along our journey, and something about Nepal piqued his interest. A few weeks earlier, he pulled the trigger on a flight, spent some time researching the mountain…