How to survive arriving into Kathmandu, Nepal for the first time

Entrance Gate to Kathmandu Airport

Arriving into Kathmandu by plane … (Updated for 2025) It seems entering into Nepal is more popular than I thought. I received an email from a Nepali person asking if I could tell them what it was really like to step right off the plane at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) and into Nepal. I’m under pressure for time; so I scribbled …

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Sunrise at 5,000 meters on the Annapurna mountain range

A high altitude sunrise in Nepal I thought it rather apt that considering I am currently (hopefully) making my way back from the Everest Base Camp I would publish a photograph I took at nearly the same time back in 2008 from the Annapurna Circuit Trek. Today is also when the date on the top right hand …

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How to get up and enjoy travel again

I no longer felt the rush of travel in South East Asia … so I left I nearly feel like putting up several big disclaimers with this post. So to thwart a wave of hatred and misunderstanding, take this as a personal journal entry; rather than a reflection on tourism and people. Like many, I always have …

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Nepal in 2011: abused, raped, plundered & forgotten

Nepal is one of the few countries I have hope for It’s a country like no other I’ve visited. A cross between old and new. Centuries old cities mixed with new society and a blend of otherworldly qualities. On the outside it’s a great place to travel, hike, find solace, enjoy, experience. Stay a little longer, see beyond …

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Shiva’s Birthday, a good time to say Goodbye to Nepal

Travel Journal Overview: I had spent more time than I could have possibly imagined in Kathmandu, and indeed Nepal. The place that had given me the feeling of home, that place I had fought off, the place I found it hard to leave. But, leave I had to. Moving on often brings me to think …

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Words that call you to action, a return to Pokhara

Travel Journal Overview: On any long journey you change. Sometimes you realize it, sometimes it has to be said to you. Here both happened. I was tired of listening to other travelers and their monotonous tales. I was reaching the stage of been there, done that. But, I was about to hear some words that …

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