A few miles from the centre of Kathmandu lies one of the biggest stupa’s in the World and the largest in Nepal, the Buddhist stupa of Boudhanath dominates the skyline. We visited it early in the morning, arriving before the main crowds of tourists and spent several hours marvelling at it’s size and peacefulness. It…
Turkish Airlines Flight TK726
On the 4th March 2015 Turkish Airlines flight TK726 from Istanbul, a Airbus 330 crash landed at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). This resulted in the airport, Nepal’s only international, being closed for four days as there was no heavy equipment to move the disabled Airbus 330 off the single runway. An estimated 80,000 passengers were stranded,…
Kathmandu
Kathmandu is a city which hit’s you squarely in the face the moment you step outside the airport. The heat, the bustle, the noise, the senses are put in to overdrive as you drive in to the city. Car’s, motorbikes, rickshaws and predestines all battle for the same section of road, all going in opposing…
