Attention Simple Dip

Bows deeply to the Warrior Queen.

I had gone on a trek.
Rains and landslides wiped off the path. 

I had to find my way through the mountains.

I have just come back.
 Thank you very much for your inspiring thoughts.
 Namaste. - Dip

The Warrior Queen,
 Thank you very much for your good wishes; they matter a lot to me.
 Let me first tell you something about Nepal.


Nepal has for long intrigued outsiders with stories of Lost Horizons & Shangri-la. It has been shrouded in mystery until the 1950s when its borders were first opened to foreigners.

A landlocked rectangle that curves along central Himalaya, Nepal is 885km long and from 90 - 220 kms wide. Such a small country has an astonishing diversity of terrain. In one day you fly amidst the world's highest mountains, walk around the most beautiful ancient temples and ride elephants in the tall grass of the jungles. Entirely mountainous except for a narrow strip along its southern border - the climate range from alpine sub-zero temperatures to tropical heat.


Kathmandu Valley is what I call "Crossroads of Culture". Nowhere in the world will you find the same concentrations of Culture, Art and Tradition that still today co-exist in the Kathmandu Valley.


The Valley is a crucible of culture - distilled from centuries of travellers, traders, artists and artisans on their way between the ancient civilisations of India & China.


Sealed for centuries from Western World, national pride, fierce independence, derived perhaps from the fact that Nepal has never been colonised is a way of life for a Nepali. Politeness is rated very highly by us.


Every Breath a Prayer:

You would probably agree if you are here, that there are more Gods than people in Kathmandu!

Theologically bewildering fusion of faith found in the Valley between Hinduism and Buddhism, interwoven with the exotica of Tantrism against a background of Animistic Cults of the distant past, is part of Life in the Valley.

With such diversity, religious tolerance is a way of life within Nepal.

In the distant dawn of unrecorded time, when the deities mingled with mortals, the Valley of Kathmandu was a Turquoise Lake on which floated a white Lotus Flower from which emanated an awesome flame.

There are two Legends of the Lake:

Wishing to worship the flame more closely, a Buddhist patriarch came from his mountain retreat in China and sliced the retraining Valley with his sacred sword so that the Lotus settled on what is called the Hill of Swayambhunath.

The Hindu version of the Legend is that Lord Krishna released the waters by hurling a thunderbolt at the Valley wall.

Whatever the Legends, the geologists confirm that the Kathmandu Valley was once under water.

The Himalayan Mountains still have many miles on which no human being has been there. I normally choose a village in the far away mountains, as my base and then trek into the unknown territory. There are times I find caves where I stay; otherwise I pitch my tent on a ridge so that I can see the snow peaks and the valley.

Namaste. Dip