Kathmandu & Pokhara | Nepal

Kathmandu & Pokhara | Nepal

A tale of two cities. Or at any rate two cities that held much in common for both of us. Nepal is known as “the birthplace of Buddha”, but for us it was “the land of odd coincidences”. We loved both cities equally & something about them, or Nepal in general, or even more likely the company we met & kept here, made it almost feel like a comfortable home.

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Chitwan | Nepal

Chitwan | Nepal

In the evening sunlight, elephants lazily bathed themselves in the river as huge white dandelion-like clusters fell like snowflakes from the silk cotton trees above. As if we had drifted off into a dream, never had I envisioned writing alongside a watery marsh while children from the town laughed & splashed in their underwear, diving in & out of the river when they should have been bringing in the days fishing lines. It felt worlds apart from how we had arrived at our destination….

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Annapurna Sanctuary | Nepal

Annapurna Sanctuary | Nepal

Ah trekking, Ben is either a glutton for punishment or the best husband in the world. Or both. Even after all his exhaustive adventures in Langtang, he was willing (& excited) to head back out onto the treks & show me around Nepal. Don’t worry, he made sure to fit in a restorative beach trip in Goa between the mighty mountain conquering, but it was still no easy feat. Not that I had been laying around eating bonbons for weeks mind you, I am pretty sure when my yoga masters advised us to take a week or two off to rest the body, a 7-day mountain trek was not what they had in mind. Nevertheless, we were off again!

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