Lumbini
Lumbini: Where the Buddha Was Born
The Maya Devi Temple, the Ashoka Pillar, and a monastic zone the size of a small city — in forty-degree heat.
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Chitwan National Park
Chitwan: What You Can Really See
Rhinos are almost guaranteed. Tigers are not. The honest picture, and how to spot the operators who lie about it.
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Sagarmatha National Park
Sagarmatha National Park: Walking into the Khumbu
Permits, altitude, and the culture of the valleys below Everest — a park that people live in.
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Pokhara
Pokhara: Phewa Lake, Sarangkot and the View at Dawn
The city under the Annapurnas is a trailhead, a viewpoint, and — if you let it — a place to slow down.
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Everest Base Camp
Everest Base Camp: The Days That Matter
Everyone plans the itinerary. Almost nobody plans the acclimatisation — which is the part that decides whether you arrive.
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Mustang
Mustang: The Restricted Kingdom Behind the Annapurnas
A high desert of ochre cliffs and wind-carved canyons, closed to outsiders until 1992, and unlike anywhere else in Nepal.
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Annapurna Base Camp
What to Know Before Annapurna Base Camp
Altitude, tea houses, and the three mistakes almost every first-time trekker makes.
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Rara Lake
Rara Lake: The Quietest Trek in Nepal
The country largest lake, in the remote northwest, reached by a flight and a walk that very few people make.
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Kathmandu
Kathmandu: What to Know Before You Arrive
Air, traffic, water, altitude — and where visitors actually go wrong.
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