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De nagarkot a Changu Narayan: Nepal at ground

I did not want to leave Nepal without kicking the hills surrounding Kathmandu, not look out of their villages, the daily lives of the people of tillage, Legion here. It is an undemanding walk, of those now called trekking, from Nagarkot and Changu Narayan Temple. A real treat.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 May, 2015

Kiss of God 5.416 meters

They say those who know the mountain, to cross the passage of Thorung The, must arrive before nine o'clock. Then he unleashed a wild wind so there is no way through it without putting human lives at risk. That's why the latest escalation, the final, starts at three o'clock.

byContributors

14 April, 2013

86 ways to cook a buffalo

While the first bottle we racksi2 I ask why Rohit newaris bars are much dirtier than a shoe store or a grocery store. Not knowing what to say shrugs and takes a sip of rice wine.

byAlex Zurdo

31 Oct., 2012

Dodging rocks

The challenge of exploring the world in the XXI century

Many think that the climbers are crazy about climbing mountains to engage in risk of their lives but I understand them beyond what words can explain. There is something up there. Reach the summit should look something like what I feel when I reach a distant destination ...

byJavier Brandoli

2 March, 2012

Kumari: the loneliness of the girl goddess

The carriage is ready. Within hours, la Kumari, the girl goddess, leave in procession through the streets of Kathmandu, a strong tradition that even the Maoists have dared to liquidate. But the small awaits a bleak future when his divine halo fades.

byRicardo Coarasa

25 July, 2011

Patan: penance unfortunate goat

Languish at the gates of the temple as rags. It looks hungry and look, sad. No caress, no hand to lengthen them some food. Starve or sacrificed to Shiva. These goats wandering like lost souls bear the sins of devotees are Hindus and considered impure.

byRicardo Coarasa

18 July, 2011

Bhaktapur: Sunday dishes Kathmandu Valley

The immaculate Bhaktapur is the darling of the Kathmandu Valley. There are no trash on the street, street or sticking your shadow, motorcycles or pedestrians dodging between horns. It happens that if you've traveled before the center of Kathmandu, can not avoid a certain feeling of unreality neat.

byRicardo Coarasa

11 July, 2011

Pashupatinath: the river of the dead

Kneeling, head down, man waits patiently for his head shaved, a rite de duelo Hindu. His late father is now a handful of ashes, in the waning fire, about to join the current holy Bagmati River. A few tourists aim their telephoto lenses from a nearby bridge. Can you imagine a group of Japanese poachers shooting his family during the funeral of a loved?

byRicardo Coarasa

27 June, 2011

Videoblog

The 365 steps of the "Monkey Temple"

"Finally we decided to lower the 365 steps of the temple, built in the seventeenth century by King Pratap Malla, a significant gap. Tibetans in exile wearily sweating up their fervor, pursued by the sun and clinging to the mid-rail to relieve strain. It almost seems to have raised awareness by car. The howler monkeys scrutinizing visitors looking for something to eat while traveling tireless offer local crafts. If you wear something you lost sight, because you will not be left alone. It is said that Buddha preached among these forests, "How not surrounded by monkeys?". Swayambhunath, the most important Buddhist stupa in Nepal, a report of VAP in pictures.

byRicardo Coarasa

20 June, 2011

Swayambhunath: the temple of the screaming monkeys

On a hill on the outskirts of Kathmandu stands the temple of Swayambhunath, known as the Monkey Temple by the large number of monkeys that roam the neighborhood. To reach the stupa have to climb 365 stone steps, each more vertically, closely stalked by a legion of macaques. Up, you seen the giant eyes of Buddha. By Ricardo COARASA.

byRicardo Coarasa

20 June, 2011

Videoblog

Kathmandu: a walk around Durbar Square

Around Durbar Square are the main temples of old Kathmandu, an essential visit for…

byContributors

13 June, 2011

Kathmandú: the slaughter of the royal family

When I visit Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, King Gyanendra is still reeling and the city is surrounded by Maoist rebels. The cannon that sat on the throne was a massacre that turned the world 2001. The crown prince shot dead his parents, Kings, and the cream of the royal family. After the regicide, the crown could only sit at the head of Gyanendra.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 June, 2011

Kodari: Captain Haddock's syndrome

"Life does not wait at the border, is all you need to know ", Al Green singing. In the Nepalese Kodari, the corruption not know how to wait. Seeking to recover for the second time the visa and five dollars for not giving a picture card. Captain Haddock's syndrome is about to unfold.

byRicardo Coarasa

6 June, 2011

Zhangmu: the deconstruction of the Adventurer

Zhangmu, on the border with Nepal, is a motley bunch of houses hanging from a cliff in thick vegetation where the monsoons wreak havoc. Landslides are common this time of year and, inevitably, every so often a piece of people rushing downhill, toward the stream, swallowed by the mountain.. By Ricardo COARASA.

byRicardo Coarasa

30 May, 2011

Chitwan: the park where "The Jungle Book" was inspired

Joseph Rudyard Kipling, British poet and writer, Born in Bombay (India) in 1865. and died in London in 1936. He lived in times of war and not in vain became famous among his countrymen for poems and stories devoted to the British troops in India.

byContributors

5 May, 2011

Asia
Nature

The reincarnated brown ant

The height reduces the oxygen level and complicated movements. At first it is imperceptible, but then it will increasingly notice. The dawn of our eighth day of the Annapurna circuit is overwhelming.

byContributors

12 February, 2011

Asia
Nature

Glacier Gangapurna: ally against altitude sickness

I do not know the other, but I stress me up for minutes. It's like that and it's time for truth and, on the one hand, want to face it sooner, and, other, want to run. At the moment, clear, I stay.

byContributors

3 February, 2011

Asia
Nature

Roadmap for the conquest of the Himalayas

Trekking el de los Annapurnas, walking at higher altitudes than can a human being before having to use climbing equipment to keep climbing, is the most wonderful adventure I had in my life.

byContributors

9 January, 2011

Asia
Nature

Trekking in Annapurna: top, where the world ends

Climb the highest levels of the planet and walk around the slopes of the mountains of Nepal is the story of a serial nature reports that give in VOD. A trek made by ordinary people, they barely knew the high mountain, and approached the limit of his strength and dreams.

byContributors

17 December, 2010

White Mountains, the sacred country, goodbye

The last two months of travel have been, probably, the most intense. Nepal and its beautiful mountains sacred revealed a pleasure in my nature to know. Top hundred yards without stopping up every day, pointing to an uncertain fate Snow, cold, and the best cards in the world, I generated a mixture of insecurity and joy hard to describe.

byContributors

9 November, 2010

Katmandu: a ghost in the night

Nepal, one o'clock. The plane that brought us out of China, of which we say goodbye…

byContributors

12 Oct., 2010

Pokhara: Phewa the sacred lake

The trip [st] Pokhara is part of the places chosen by nature. But, es poco conocido por…

byJavier Brandoli

27 February, 2010

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