Sometimes, the local newspaper is happy to kick one's butt

“Never will I forget the sight of her pink toenails,” a Nepalese doctor wrote in a newspaper article, “and this is about what is wrong in our country …"

Every night, it goes like that.

(Because of my tiny arms)

Got sweaty? No river in sight since hours? Drank almost all of your liquid supplies? About to empty the last bottle of precious water on your head? Behold!

Then, he grabs my nose.

To stay clean and thus healthy on adventurous travels (oh, yes, even at home), the following might come in handy some day …

… I found myself crossing some Himalaya mountains on a tiny custom build Chinese bike.

… is the stomach pain I got from eating the entire time.

It’s the first day of me and my bike riding alone, heading to Lijiang.

The whole village had gathered. The men constructed a raft with little clay figures on top. The women brought food and decorated the family’s balcony.

If you happen to be in Nepal on the day before New Year’s Eve, you might want to give Gorkha, the old kingdom’s capital, a try;