In Chitwan and Bardia young khaki-clad kids were the vital link between celebrity guests and unfamiliar tiger terrain The shadows on the grass walls of the hide reflected the outlines of the Chitwan guests, anxious to catch a glimpse of the tiger’s powerful striped muscles in the jungle clearing below,…
That lesson is still valid as the country seeks investments to accommodate 2 million tourists by 2020 The early foreign investors in Nepal may have been an eccentric and colourful bunch, but they did understand international tourism. As guests in this country, they realised that nurturing Nepali people, their culture…
The Pathibhara helicopter crash was a repeat of the tragedy in Ghunsa in 2006 Those of us concerned with conservation in Nepal remember exactly where we were on 23 September 2006 when news hit about the missing helicopter that disappeared into the clouds above Ghunsa. I was at my desk overlooking a…
Four years later, Kavre’s quake-affected dairy farmers are back in business with new fodder cultivation The terraced fields fall away from the road in gentle waves, each neatly scored into brown ruts like a freshly moulded bar of chocolate. “All potatoes, newly planted,” explains Ram pointing inside the plastic greenhouses…
One day Kathmandu’s cappuccinos will be made with beans grown by Nuwakot’s earthquake-hit farmers “I’m shaken and rattled to the bone,” exclaims Ambica as we lurch uphill, the vehicles skidding on exposed stones and sliding off the deeply gouged ruts. The driver wrestles with the wheel of the sturdy Indian…