Author: Amanda Bensel

  | DAY 2: Chele to Sarbochen | We awoke the next morning in the small town of Chele, nestled on a ridge about 300 feet above the river bed and surrounded by a couple dozen bright green terraces of wheat. The fields were a surreal sight when we entered town the evening before –…

Upper Mustang is – a series of craggy, high-altitude desert valleys and ridges in the rain-shadow of the great Himalaya range; – an ancient kingdom bordering another that was destroyed by a global giant; – a historic trading route on the verge of modernization; – a place of few resources and little wealth; – a centuries-old…

May 30th, 2014 The City of Bhairahawa is a small piece of India transplanted a mile north of the border. It has assimilated many aspects of it’s new body but will never forget it’s origin. The city is flat, painfully dry and scorching hot. Rickshaws, camels and ox-drawn carts frequent the roads.The people dress differently…