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Description: Inside a small one room home near Chitwan National Park in Nepal. Location: Bharatpur, Nepal, Asia Photograph copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
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Description: Inside a small one room home near Chitwan National Park in Nepal. Location: Bharatpur, Nepal, Asia Photograph copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
Description: Gharials are a member of the crocodile family and are fish-eaters living in rivers of Nepal and India. This tangle of crocs is found at a breading center in Continue Reading →
Description: Not every rhino wants its picture taken. Location: Chitwan National Park, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
Description: Clouds breaking before a stoney wall of towering peaks. In the Himalayas. Location: Solukhumbu, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
Description: A throwback to 2010 when I attempted to climb a peak known as Kyajo Ri. It’s my only tall mount attempt (word used twice already because I did not Continue Reading →
Description: The title says is all. It’s a bike in Lumbini, Nepal that is used to deliver firewood. The bike is aptly named Hercules. Location: Lumbini, Nepal, Asia Photograph copyright Continue Reading →
Description: First, an apology for naming yesterday’s Photo Of The Day incorrectly! It happens… Yesterday’s photo was taken at Swayambhunath Stuppa, not Boudhanath as is today’s photo. Location: Kathmandu, Nepal, Continue Reading →
Description: Light from the inside, reflections from the outside. Location: Swayambhunath Stuppa, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved.
Description: Chitwan National Park in Nepal is the place to be if you want to spot rhinos. Especially the Rhinoceros unicornis. Location: Chitwan National Park, Nepal, Asia Photograph copyright Peter Continue Reading →
Description: Morning time is the best time to see rhinos that are out for breakfast, chomping away at the grasses along the Rapti River in Nepal. Location: Nepal, Asia All Continue Reading →
Description: Pottery crafting in Bhaktapur, Nepal goes back centuries and is still practiced by hand to this day. Location: Bhaktapur, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey
Description: All day long, the prayer wheels spin. Location: Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey.
Description: We called him Machermo because that’s the village where he started following our group. For about four days this wonderful dog hung out with us while we took photos and Continue Reading →
Description: Rhesus Macaques are the monkeys that give Monkey Temple (Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu) its moniker. Location: Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey.
Description: A lot of the One-horned Rhinos we spotted in Nepal’s Chitwan National Park have decent but ‘realistic’ horns. What do I mean? I mean this example below is not normal. Continue Reading →
Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital city, is home to a number of a number of ancient UNESCO World Heritage Sites and two of the more popular locations are Swayambunath Stupa and Boudhanath Continue Reading →
In the last of a two-part series I just made up, it’s time for a night ride on a motorbike through the very tights and often blind-cornered streets around Boudha, Continue Reading →
Description: Boudhanath is a great escape inside Kathmandu. While it is still a relatively busy place, the Tibetan custom of circling shrines in a clockwise direction brings order to a Continue Reading →
If you were spellbound by yesterday’s mastery of suspense and traffic, you’re going to love today’s hit release: Kathmandu By Motorbike. It’s all of the action from yesterday but now Continue Reading →
Description: I don’t know much about motorbikes, but I like ones that stand out here in Kathmandu. Like this Royal Enfield sitting on a side street. Location: Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia Continue Reading →
My time in Nepal and Bhutan this trip is dedicated to showing my four guests all the things I love about this region I return time and again. I have Continue Reading →
Description: I can tell you from my last trip to Nepal in 2019 that not much has changed in the way of chaos in the streets of Kathmandu. This photo Continue Reading →
Description: Hand-dipped pottery painting in Nepal Location: Bhaktapur, Nepal, Asia Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Commercial Licensing (email) Learn photography and explore the world with Far Horizon Photo Continue Reading →
Description: One of the best places for sunrise in Kathmandu is from Swayambhunath Stupa. The holy site and UNESCO World Heritage Site is a popular place to pray, workout or just Continue Reading →
Description: Stepping back for vertical panoramas for a bit, let’s head to Nepal through past photos. A typical Sherpa mountain home, the top is for living while the bottom section is Continue Reading →
Description: While Lhotse is the immediate neighbor to Mount Everest (Sagarmatha), it is in fact the third highest mountain in the world behind K2 in Pakistan. Not only that, it is Continue Reading →
Description: I’m a little hooked on the slow shutter speed version of prayer wheels in motion. Location: Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia Camera: Canon 7D & 28-300mm L Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Continue Reading →
Description: Below Swayambhunath Stupa is a row of stalls where you can get your own butter lamps for a devotional offering. Location: Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia Camera: Canon 7D & 28-300mm L Photograph Continue Reading →
Description: Guru Rinpoche, Buddha and Chenrezig (left to right in the image) watch over Amideva Buddha Park on the lower reaches of the hill on which sits Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu. Continue Reading →
Description: I’ve been in Kathmandu for just all the weather it typically experiences. Rain, sleet, haze, more haze, monsoon, sunshine with visibility to the Himalayas. But this night in 2013 had Continue Reading →