Kathmandu night, rain has just
stopped. Unreasonably early
pre-monsoon, making things wet
when they should be dry. Which
"The wildest dreams of Kew," wrote Rudyard Kipling in one celebrated verse, "are the facts of Katmandu." But how could he have known? Certainly, Kipling never
The bulk of tourists in the Himalaya do it the way the others do it. But there is a breed that marches to a different beat. They do "alternative
Since it cautiously opened its borders 13 to foreign visitors in 1974, following the coronation of HM King Jigme Singhe Wangchuk, Bhutan has been earning about U$2 million a
On a cold spring morning, if one looks up from the wide mountain highway that leads up from Kalka, the bright sunshine, striking the smoke billowing from thousands of coal
