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Travel Blogs from Bandipur, Nepal
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Silk Farm
... sized for Nepalis, and I hit my head on the stairs and door frame every time I entered our room. Breakfast at the Old Bandipur Inn. The rooms there were twenty-five dolars a night per person: over ten times what paid just down the street. But ...
Newari Architecture at its best
We'd heard that Bandipur was a beautiful village, with old style architecture well preserved, and we weren't disappointed. After a fortuitous meeting with a wealthy Englishman travelling by private car gave us a quick lift to the town and avoided waiting ...
The hilltop village of Bandipur
... stop was coming up. Nathan and I disembarked and were immediately approached by a man who offered us a jeep ride to our destination, Bandipur. We waited for a couple of minutes until a Dutch couple joined us and agreed to share the cost. Nathan and I sat ...
Bandipur
I stayed for 10 days in Bandipur. It's a town of about 10,000 people. It's in the way to Phokhara (East of Kathmnadu). However it's on the top of a hill, so there's always cool air blowing. I stayed with the Shresta family, who live on the edge of town, ...
Dead Town, Dead Bodies, and a Dead Big Stupa
... of superlatives. To break up the journey between our trekking and returning to the capital, we stopped briefly at the old Bazaar town of Bandipur, it had a hayday many many years ago as it occupies a place on the old route from India to Tibet, - so high ...
Bandipur
... record every time she gets stuck on a word. She wants to be a tour guide and gives a charming, extemporaneous account of Bandipur's many attractions. Finally she shows me her money collection: she has dinar from Abu Dhabi, ngultrum from Bhutan, francs ...
Ramkot
... us. From behind, they looked like bales of hay. We also saw schoolchildren, all in their blue shirts and black pants, walking to Bandipur from as far away as Ramkot to go to school. They walked faster than we could, and were still chipper. I can't ...
Pokhora to Bandipur
... got out onto the open roads and we slid from one side to the other as the bus swung around corners. 2 1/2 hours was enough! Bandipur is a small village perched on a mountainside. There's only one street really (the bazaar) lined with pretty Newari style ...
First cycling experience, sweeeeet!! ;-)
... pleasure of being over-cheated on the price. It's only 3:30 and I'm confident I'll easily get up to Bandipur, a Newari village I heard about, though I have no information about how is the road like. It turns out to be a really ...
Bandipur
Pretty much a wasted day this one, we arrived into this mountain town still feeling the pains of the trek. We spent an hour or so exloring the place which was a Communist - Maoist stronghold during the Nepalese Civil ...
A Newari town.
Next stop is a wee village called Bandipur....after returning to Pokhara temporarily just for one night. I hopped on the bus that goes towards Kathmandu and got off aboot 1/3 of the way in Dumre. Then grabbed a public jeep to get me the rest of the way, ...
Living Museum
... NR 2500 but then decided to do the trip the local way: micro to Abu Karieni, bus to Dumre and jeep to Bandipur at a total cost of 460 Nepal Rupee - not bad and arrived in just 3 hours plus enjoyed the experience of chatting with local people who were also ...
roadside tragedy, maoists and mountains
... never stopped. His family is demanding reparations, legal action, some accountability - near impossible requests on the roads of Nepal. Until then, the family and friends refuse to let traffic pass.Interestingly the authorities dare not force their ...
The long, lazy morning of Bandipur
... in most Asian countries. So typical of a colonial hill station, but for the fact that Nepal has never been colonised - this is all home grown. Bandipur is the product of Newari artisans, a minority of the Kathmandu valley well known and respected for ...
bundipur - a town with no stress - yes please
The ever trustworthy lonely planet describes bandipur as a national treasure that is a perfect example of a typical Nepali town - so i decided to go for two days to mentally prepare myself for Kathmandu and later India - my last gasp of stress free life ...
Bandipur
... but it was in a nice Nepalese mud style building - the people were nice and made a nice Thali for us both evenings. Bandipur itself is a cobbled town which is almost deserted. The population of the town moved down to the plains once the threat of ...
Beautiful Bandipur
... back and side and stuffed inside - I was inside sat opposite a young girl clutching and stroking her (pet?) chicken! Bandipur was a beautiful place, no tourist shops, no traffic (vehicles are only allowed to the edge) and no one trying to ...
Beautiful Bandipur- glad we decided to get on jeep
... (sorry Mums!) and enjoyed the winding ride up the mountain road overlooking the gorgeous valleys and snow capped mountains! Bandipur really was special- small, quaint, scenic and the people were very friendly. It had a real village atmosphere- ...
Bandipur
... bit more like Scotland. The monsoon has lasted a month longer than usual. Today we travelled to the hilltop village of Bandipur. The journey through Kathmandu Valley was hair raising as the heavy rains (the worst rains in 26 years fell on ...
Anna Purna Circuit
... in gently we spent the first night before our trek at a restored village mansion in the heart of the ancient mountain village of Bandipur. The ironic thing about Bandipur was that at sunset the lights went out! The guest house setting was beautiful but ...
Bandipur
Next stop is a medieval village called Bandipur on the way to Kathmandu from Pokhara. We had a fun ride on top of the bus, ducking power lines and trees to get here. The village is really pretty, though unfortunately it's too misty to see ...
Bourne for Adventure
... far removed from anything we’d bear witness to in real life. Yet while careening down the twisted mountain road from Bandipur to Dumre, Nepal in a gaudy little bus, I was surprised and a little exhilarated to indeed find myself caught up in my own ...
Bandipur en Gorkha
We 'trekken' nu verder op een andere manier : Bandipur, Ghorka, Patan, Boudha en Bakthapur zijn de plekken die we aandoen om nog wat anders van Nepal te zien dan de Himalaya. Trouwens daarvan is de laatste dagen heel weinig te zien. De valleien ...
Get there before they wreck it
... over balcony at end of the cafe and to my left a guy was doing his washing in a small bowl. All very surreal! After a huge plate of veggie pokara went to check out the other side of town. Yep it was the same as the rsst. Bandipur.....my kind of ...
Ye Olde Bandipur
This morning we left Kathmandu at 7am to catch the bus to Bandipur which would take around 5 hours. I went to bed pretty late last night so wasn't too happy when my alarm went off at 5.30!! I was grateful to be on the bus for a while to listen to some ...
A short visit
... but something that more resembled soured milk. Hypocrisy is starting to sound good. Today was meant to be a two hour drive to Bandipur then lunch and a cooking lesson. Apparently, the tour company has found there just isn't enough to do in Bandipur after ...
A "New"ari Village
(D) We got out of Pokhara for a few days and visited another small town called Bandipur. After a winding ride to the top of a ridge, the bus stop short of a small entryway; we found it was the main entrance to the town, devoid of all buses, cars, ...
Manakamana Devi Temple (Temple of the wishes)
On way to Chitwan called in to Manakamana to see the temple of the wishes. Not walking up I'm taking the cable car. Could be interesting! Survived!!! The cable car was fun but not for the faint hearted. All the way up to 2200 metres halfway there was fog ...
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