Pedaling the Terai
Nepal isn't just soaring mountains. The Mahendra highway runs through the Terai, a strip of flat ...
River crossing
The spectators were lined up and the jury was out; could the next ‘contestants’ (Western cycl...
Khusum hotel
Pfff… We hadn’t slept a wink. The whole night through long distance chauffers stopped at our ...
Cycling the foothills
Our route to India led us through Nepal's foothills. I still can remember stopping to look back a...
Swayambhunath
In 1982 I saw a photo of Swayambhunath. The temple was so exotic and different from everything th...