Dwarikas

... Nepalese movie set. So many impressions, so few photos.    We had got the taste of luxury. We headed down to the Dwarikas Hotel. Its like entering an old courtyard. Woodcarvings all over. And the rooms... Our room felt like a suite, the size of ...

... (Himalayas on left side) to be met by Gurkha reps & whisked through from airside & to the beautiful restored heritage Dwarikas' Hotel. Luckily we are on army rates & I always feel less comformatble in these places - why is there western ...

... ). Good news though it has stopped raining as forecast and the sun has come out right on schedule. We are now staying at Dwarikas which is the hotel used by our trekking group who all arrive tomorrow. The hotel is absolutely delightful, but a bit on ...

... booked into an exceptional hotel for a few nights. Dwarika's Hotel. If ever you come to Kathmandu stay nowhere else. www.dwarikas.com It was bliss, everything was perfect and how often can that be said. Beautiful surroundings. Fine attention to details ...

Today was another crazy day in Katmandu. First, we went to the biggest Buddhist Stupa in all of Nepal (the second biggest in the world). It was huge and there were lots of monasteries surrounding it. There were also lots of people, both from Nepal and ...

What a crazy day! Nepal is SO different from India or any place we have been so far! First, let me just list some of the things we saw: 1. Durbar squares, with king's palaces and lots of pagoda-style temples, which were first made here, not in ...

Namaste from Nepal!!! We learned that in Nepal, Namaste means "I celebrate that which is divine in you!". In Nepal, they speak Nepali, but a lot of it is like Hindi. As well, 80% of people here are Hindu, 13% are Buddhist, 3% are Muslim, and then ...

In October and November, Luke and I went on a 6-day trip to Nepal to visit Kathmandu and the surrounding area. We first spent 3 days visiting Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur, which were the 3 royal cities in the valley through about the beginning of the ...

Greetings, again, from Kathmandu.  We have had another unbelievably full day of exploring the Kathmandu Valley.  This post is about the most interesting part of that day, watching the rich pageant of life (and death) from the banks of the Bagmati ...