Tag: nepal
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November 06, 2006 10:26 AM EST --
Have any of you traveled to India or Nepal? My husband and I are hoping to go next spring/summer on a 14-17 day trip. We'd like to break it down into one week of treking and one week . . .
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August 04, 2007 06:03 AM EDT --
By Marc Ethier
Gather Correspondent
We’ve seen a lot of mangy mutts on this trip. Which of course have reminded us, one and all, of our mutt Kaya, waiting at home for our return. Poor Kaya!
Asia . . .
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December 11, 2006 12:31 PM EST --
On the road, it is often a loving stranger who illustrates that, at our best, we are all brothers and sisters . . .
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February 07, 2007 04:02 PM EST --
Kathmandu, the capital and largest city of Nepal, sits in a valley about 4,200 feet above sea level. . . .
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May 02, 2007 09:51 AM EDT --
This photo essay is dedicated to the monkey, a critter that is rather abundant in parts of our world.
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October 26, 2007 01:30 AM EDT --
This installment of my "Reflections on the Road" column draws from the manuscript I've written narrating my . . .
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July 25, 2006 02:46 AM EDT --
It is funny how much about this trip has not turned out at all like I expected and, as I have said before, how much I am continuously reminded of my own life that I live back at home in the states.
Last . . .
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October 15, 2006 03:45 PM EDT --
MORE PHOTOS OF THAT FANTASTIC CONTRAPTION, THE BICYCLE...
Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam
Kathmandu, Nepal
Lahore, Pakistan
Hue, Vietnam (my rental bike)
Luang . . .
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February 22, 2007 10:43 AM EST --
This is the second installments of "Faces of Kathmandu". To visit the first part, which includes . . .
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December 17, 2006 10:30 PM EST --
Nepal's peace process has been disrupted by a row over whether the country should retain the cow as its national animal or replace it with the rhinoceros.
Cows are sacred in Hindu Nepal while the . . .
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February 26, 2007 01:47 PM EST --
This is the third and final installment of the "Faces of Kathmandu" series. Unlike the other . . .
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October 28, 2006 12:50 PM EDT --
Inside the ticket kiosk of a bus station - Pokhara, Nepal
Bangkok, Thailand
Jalalabad, Kyrgyzstan
Bangkok, Thailand
Varanasi, India
North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan
Agra, India
Myself, . . .
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June 30, 2006 10:15 AM EDT --
I just wanted to say hello to all of you out in Gather land. I have really missed interacting with all of you. Just to touch base I am in Kathmandu and loving every minute of it. It is really slow connection . . .
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October 17, 2006 05:40 PM EDT --
Sapa, Vietnam
Along the Friendship Highway - Tibet, China
Mekong River, looking into Thailand - Houy Xia, Laos
Kathamndu, Nepal
Wagah, India
Mtskheta, Georgia
On the bridge connecting Thailand . . .
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September 30, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
I haven't written much since my mother died last November. I just haven't felt the urge. Grief shows up in funny ways. However, since my mother died fairly young at the . . .
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February 01, 2006 12:28 AM EST --
Dorge, Me, Wally and "the big guy" behind us.
OK-OK, 8,000 feet is a long way to go but I did really feel like I reached the summit (at least my feet and lungs did)!! . . .
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November 15, 2007 06:13 AM EST --
In April . . .
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August 27, 2006 11:47 PM EDT --
Yesterday was the second day of a three day festival in Nepal, called Teej. Teej is a festival for women in which they often celebrate at many of the Temples that honor the god, Shiva. Women at Teej wear . . .
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August 28, 2006 12:27 AM EDT --
Yesterday Allison and I went to Bhaktapur with the intentions of staying the night and shooting for two days. As soon as we stepped out and into the Durbar Square we were berated by touts wanting to give . . .
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May 03, 2007 03:38 AM EDT --
By Marc Ethier
Gather Correspondent
We march uphill for six hours. The wind is intense and unrelenting. The trail follows a rising abutment of ferrous rock that meets a cleft in a larger eminence . . .
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