It’s beyond difficult to condense 12 days in the Himalayas into a single blog post so I’m not going to try. There is no way to write about everything that goes through your head when you spend 10 days pushing your physical and mental limits in one of the most beautiful places on earth. So…

A seven hour bus ride from Kathmandu later and we were in the hot, humid jungles of Chitwan National Park. Chitwan is Nepal’s first national park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We avoided the popular safari by elephant-back and opted instead for a half-day canoe and jungle trek followed by a half-day jeep safari….

Holi. The festival of spring, colours, and sharing love. A chance to colour-bomb the neighbourhood kids in (secret) retaliation for their singing “Let It Go” at 6 am outside your window. A chance for them to whip water balloons back at you in (not so secret) retaliation. The streets are full of happy people covered…

March 7-9 were holidays for me a few of my friends here in Kathmandu so we decided to escape the city on a little tourist adventure. We took a couple extra days off work and hopped a bus to Pokhara, where we spent the next five days.  

My first work trip saw me headed northwest of the city, to Dhading District, for a very important ceremony for the Sana Kisan Bikas Bank (my employer). The bank was officially handing over management of one of their banking cooperatives to the various small farmer members. The day saw the majority of the bank’s 600 members…

This post was intended to be all about the wonders of Nepali food. What it turned into was a recap of everything I ate for a week. So instead of getting into the intricacies of cooking in a country where having your tanker truck full of black market cooking gas stopped by the police until…

I’m in Vancouver. I’m drinking Starbucks. I’m a big ball of mixed emotions. I’m listening to Alabama Shakes. That’s probably not helping. I’ve got five hours to kill and sixteen Canadian dollars to spend. Ohmygod. Cute police dog in front of me. Must resist urge to pet. “Miss You” is playing and now I’m crying…