Nigel Kirkbt

Most travel advice is shared with good intentions. Some of it is practical, some hard – won from experience, and a fair amount of it, we have come to believe, simply doesn’t travel well.  After more than three decades arranging journeys across Nepal, Bhutan, India, and Tibet, we have learned that travel rarely follows universal rules. What […]

17 September, 2026 The Krishnabhir section of the Prithvi Highway has reopened, with two-way traffic operating from 6:00 a.m. today. Road travel between Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan and western Nepal can now resume via the usual route. Airports, domestic flights, hotels and tourism services remain operational. Travel to Rasuwa and the Nepal–China border corridor remains affected […]

Perhaps more than you expect. It’s easy to think a journey through the Himalayas is defined by the mountains. Yet, for many travelers, it’s the quieter moments along the way that leave the deepest impression. As the days unfold, many travelers return home with something less tangible but far more enduring: a different way of […]