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A photographic collection of Kathmandu’s iconic hand-painted store & street signs This coffee table book has been over 10 years in the making. It’s a personal project that I enjoyed tremendously. I wasn’t expecting to publish it now, but strangely due to the pandemic the cards fell into play. As you know from the news, …

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The best guidebook to Nepal is once again available in paperback format! Wow, we did it again! We beat the pandemic and the global lockdowns attempts at derailing our print guidebooks. There’s a new print edition out. It’s now the only guidebook to Nepal in the world that’s been updated and published during the pandemic. …

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Today Nepal has received its first shipment of COVID-19 Vaccine In an unexpected move of goodwill India has given Nepal its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine. It arrived in the country on Thursday and will be used to vaccinate all of Nepal’s health and front line staff. The vaccine is called Covishield and is the …

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Is Nepal getting one of the new vaccines for COVID-19? It seems highly likely that in the near future a person will need a COVID-19 vaccine before they can travel, get on an international flight or enter a foreign country. This will probably include Nepal. We’ll save the “no to vaccines” approach for other places. …

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On October 17th 2020 Nepal will allow mountaineers and trekkers to enter Nepal If you’ve been following my regular COVID-19 updates from Nepal you would have known this was on the cards. However, it did take until the 16th of October for an official announcement to be made … Yes, they literally left it to …

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It happened all too fast. Like many other moments in time, it wasn’t a face but what lies behind the eyes that told the truth. The same Nepali smiles were there but something was missing. A virtue that once appealed to all – before the year that Nepal lost its innocence. I wrote this nearly …

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Should Nepal open for trekking and tourism in 2020? “Should” rather than “will” seems to be the international perspective on Nepal’s 2020 tourism industry. Meanwhile in Nepal, there are few people who think of “should”, the vast majority are shouting “when?” There are those on the outside looking in who are convinced that tourists will …

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