This is day 1 of my recent 24 day trek through the Khumbu region of Nepal I looked out at the hazy view before me, the surprisingly hot sun shining down on the damp earth and lifting a mist up from the ground to shroud the mountains and valleys. I stood amongst fields of millet and not [...]
The city of Kathmandu in Nepal is full of important religious sites and temples. One of the most important of these is Swayambhunath, or more commonly known to tourists as "The Monkey Temple". During my recent trip to Nepal, I took a morning to head out through the streets of Kathmandu to check out this well known site. [...]
Today's travel photo is of a shop selling vegetables on the street in Kathmandu, Nepal. As you can probably tell, this building was damaged in the earthquake and is basically being held up by those wooden struts wedged in between the roof and the ground. You can't see it in this photo, but the entire [...]
Today's travel photo is of the damaged stupa in the village of Junbesi in Nepal, on the Jiri to Lukla trail. There was a lot of earthquake damage in the villages along the trail from Jiri, and in some places there were few buildings that had remained unscathed. Here in Junbesi, even the village stupa [...]
As most of you will know, unless you live under a rock, Nepal was hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in April 2015. The quake devastated the country. Thousands of people died. Others lost their homes and businesses. Important religious sites and monuments that have stood for hundreds of years were reduced to piles of [...]
Today's travel photo is of the Likhu Khola near Kinja in Nepal. I took this photo while crossing the river via a suspension bridge on the way to the village of Kinja, situated in this beautiful fertile valley, and where we would stop for lunch. We started the day in Bhandar at 2200m, but we [...]
Today's travel photo is of the view from the top of the Deurali Pass while hiking between the villages of Shivalaya and Bhandar in Nepal. I took this photo on the second day of my recent 24 day hike around the Everest region of Nepal. I started in Jiri the day before and hiked a [...]
Today's travel photo is a view of a snow capped mountain from the Dudh Kosi River Valley in the Himalayas of Nepal. This is an old photo taken on the second day of my trek to Mount Everest Base Camp back in 2009. I can't believe that was four years ago! It reminds me that [...]
On the first day of my trek to Mount Everest Base camp in Nepal back in 2009, my stop for the night was the small village of Phakding. The trek from Lukla was fairly easy and mostly stayed at the same altitude as we followed the Dudh Kosi River up the valley. This is one [...]
My love for elephants had only increased after playing with the baby at the Elephant Breeding Centre in Chitwan National Park, Nepal, and when I was told that I could go and watch the elephants going for their bath in the river, I jumped at the chance. When we arrived at the river, there were [...]
