The capital city of Nepal is an intriguing place to explore. There’s an abundance of cultural sites, and ancient practices coexist with 21st century ways of life in many ways. However, most visitors to Kathmandu are on their way somewhere else, and so we gathered information on the basics for visitors planning to come to Kathmandu. When to go Deciding when to come to Kathmandu depends on why you’re visiting. January and February are the coldest months of the year. The days ar

A long, long time ago in a land far, far away, i watched a television show and saw how someone used her photo hobby to create letter photography. Letter photography? Most people don’t know the term, but ever since that day watching that show, i have collected photos of anything and everything that looks like letters, and eventually my collection was large enough for me to start building my own words, which led to my letter photography business. Here are some stories behind so

There are two holes in the stories that follow. First of all, there’s the Hole-in-the-wall, a magnificently carved stone on the Wild Coast of South Africa, created through the ages as water from the Indian Ocean and the Mpako River beat against sandstone. And then there is the man-made Big Hole of Kimberley, dug by the hands of miners over a period of 43 years, turning a hill into a hole in order to extract diamonds from the earth. When you travel from one hole to the other,

One of the simplest pleasures in life is a scoop of ice cream. As a child i was always amazed that my father could practically gulp down a whole soft serve in what seemed to be no more than three large bites. What about toothache? Or brain freeze? Of course, there was only one explanation for his awe-inspiring ability. He had superpowers. He was the strongest, the fastest, the cleverest, the best dad in the whole wide world. Of course he could conquer an ice cream in seconds!

Life in Kathmandu is different in many ways. The pace of life here is slower than we’re used to, although the city is usually teeming with people and traffic. The best place to buy fruit and vegetables are at the local market at a street vendor’s pushcart, and it’s cheaper than processed foods. Preparing your meals from scratch with fresh ingredients is the norm, not the exception. For That-Man-The-Carnivore the most noticeable adjustment has been the amount of red meat he co