Nepal Travel
Most of Nepal lives in villages not on any trekking route. What rural life in the middle hills, the Terai borderlands, and the remote west looks like and what the distance from Kathmandu means in practice.
Nepal Travel
The women of Thimi are making clay pots. They sit in open courtyards, chatting and singing while they work. One pauses to explain the leg tattoos visible below her skirt: markers of marital status, designed to make her unattractive to outsiders. Twenty minutes from Bhaktapur's Durbar Square by
Nepal Travel
Janaki Mandir was completed in 1898. The builder was Rani Brisabhanu Kunwar of Tikamgarh, a princely state in what is now Madhya Pradesh. She built it in Janakpur, in what is now Nepal. The border drawn between the two countries in the decades that followed did not change what the