Nepal Memories

Cho Oyu on a thin-air afternoon.

Quiet water and hills at Begnas, just beyond the lakeside crowds.

Patan after the rain — Newar courtyards still holding the light.

Confluence at Devghat. Sages, river, orange cloth.

Dharahara rebuilt, Kathmandu looking up again.

Wilder than the postcard — Bardiya in late afternoon.

Tilicho — wind, ice and that impossible blue.

Rara in Karnali: still water, big sky, almost no one.

The sleeping Vishnu at Budhanilkantha. Water, stone, quiet.

Morning light on Phewa Lake — Pokhara at its calmest.

Sunrise ridgeline above Pokhara from Sarangkot.

Brick, wood and temple roofs in Bhaktapur Durbar Square.

River mist and sal forest at the edge of Chitwan.

Dakshinkali in the forest south of the valley.

Bindhyabasini above the lake, bells and city wind.

Turquoise Gokyo under a hard high-altitude sky.

Birendra Lake below Manaslu. Glacier water, almost silent.

Beeshazar — a lake inside the jungle, birds louder than people.

Dhaulagiri from the rain-shadow side. White wall, no scale.

Changu Narayan — oldest temple I have stood in, still warm wood.

Barun Valley: rhododendron, rock, and a river that never rests.

Davis Falls disappearing under Pokhara — loud, then gone.

Ama Dablam catching the last sun on the trail.

Himalayan line from Nagarkot on a clear winter morning.