Festivals of Bhaktapur

Tatopani, Myagdi: Hot Springs, Glaciers, and the Road Between Them

In the Kali Gandaki gorge, where geothermal heat rises from the riverbank and glacial cold descends from the Dhaulagiri massif, a single corridor hold....

Janakpur’s Mithila Mithai: A Glossary of Sweets

Here are five essential Mithila sweets, each with its own identity, its own occasion, and its own claim or the senses. Together, they map the world.

Marsi Rice: The Crimson Grain of the Himalayas

High in the rugged mountains of far-western Nepal, where the air thins and winters bite hard, grows a rice unlike any other in the world. Marsi rice,....

Salleri, Solukhumbu

At the crossroads of the mountain world, a town waits quietly.