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Six running series and hundreds of articles, written by the people who plan the trips.
When to go
Seasons, month by month, region by region
What it costs
Real budgets in dollars, with tables
Routes that work
Tested itineraries and combinations
Eating across Asia
What to order and where
On foot
Treks and long walks, described honestly
Before you book
Visas, permits, timing, practicalities
What we would skip in Nepal
This is the article that costs us bookings and earns the trust, so we write it carefully.
Nepal with children
Nepal is a better family destination than its reputation suggests, with one firm condition attached: below altitude it works extremely well, and…
The best two-week route through Nepal
There is no single best route through Nepal, because the country offers three genuinely different trips and two weeks will carry one…
What to eat in Nepal, and where
Nepali food has a reputation problem, and the reason is that most visitors only ever eat two versions of it: the standardised…
Nepal for the first time
Nepal is the only country we sell where the most important planning variable is not what you want to see. It is…
Nepal month by month
The best time to visit Nepal is October and November, then March and April, and the gap between those windows and the…
What a trip to Nepal costs, trek included
Nepal is the cheapest country in our library to travel in and one of the easiest to get the budget wrong in,…
The Kathmandu valley in four days, beyond the checklist
The Kathmandu valley is treated by most itineraries as an arrival formality: two days of durbar squares before the real trip starts.…
How many days do you need in Nepal?
In most countries the length of a trip is a question of appetite. In Nepal it is a question of physiology and…
Everest or Annapurna: which trek suits which walker
Most people arrive at this decision having already decided, because Everest is a word and Annapurna is not. Then they ask us…
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