Wonderful Beautiful Nepal | Travel, Culture & Food

The highly-addicting and extremely fun game that combines driving and skills is now available for mobile users on Android as Bike Racing android app has been released earlier this month of September 2015. The just released Android app for Bike Racing in Nepal is available on Android gadgets like Nexus tablets, Samsung Tablets and phones.  The game takes you to the year 2050 and is based on the future where there is no potholes and bad roads in Nepal. Also there is no dust. Bike Racing Nepal has become a very huge hit amongst casual gamers as it guarantees the players a lot of fun and craziness. Players only need to open the app and start and once they start driving, the fun will never stop. The game will surely fit those who enjoy passing time, and avoiding obstacles such as other cars.  The game has a score which increases the longer you can continue without bumping into traffic or obstacles. Well, the goal of the race is to make the players fail, so they should expect challe...

One year ago during the Storymoja Festival, I launched my book, A Killing in the Sun , a collection of short speculative stories, featuring African science fiction, fantasy and horror. The reception of the book has been, surprisingly, warm, at times awed, and at times an outright 'oh wow! Unbelievable!' I did not expect this. I thought it would be only me sweating it out to sweet talk people into buying it, but somehow the book has marketed itself. To celebrate a year in print, here are a few of the reviews, some from renown African writers like Binyavanga Wainaina, Zukiswa Wanner, and Beverly Nambozo. "...punchy and awkward and well worth reading." K. Kamo, in Strange Horizons Me, at the launch in Storymoja Festival 2014 "perfectly poised between the robustness of genre fiction and the more literary concern" Mark  Bould, in LA Review of Books "From the first page of the of the first story, I felt that surge of anticipation of the possibility of s...

We've seen many tourists in various stages of stomach upset at the Star View Guest House throughout the past year. And yes, we've even had two incidents of cross contamination from our own kitchen. Apologies can never be enough for someone who's suffered from a bacteria invasion. Assurances can only be met with skepticism because the causes are usually impossible to predict or avoid entirely. The saddest part of the stomach bug issue is that a person can never actually prove where they got it unless others who ate the same foods also becomes ill. Some of the bacteria can take weeks to become symptomatic while others show themselves before you finish eating. I've noticed a bit of pepper taste from the foods that have made me ill in the past, but I've never actually heard of that being a symptom. For our most recent guests who came down with the bacteria, I found something to share. However, although we fed over 10 people, only two developed symptoms. Of the two, one...

People have such big hearts. I’m amazed at the love I see expressed by both the tourists we have now in Nepal and the Nepali. I commented that I’ve been amazed by the support from New Zealand since the earthquakes, but we have an American, French, 2 Spanish and an Italian who have each been outstanding in their own ways.  But not everyone can do a corporate fundraiser or come to Nepal. Additionally, everyone does not have an extra $5 to spare for people on the other side of the planet. I’d written a similar blog post some time ago, but there is a new need for help here and a renewed desire to give. Here are more ways you can support the people of Nepal even if you have no money.  1.      Watch the commercials on our youtube videos and share our movies on your social media sites. 2.      Befriend/Follow us and share our posts on your social media outlets and encourage others to donate 3.      Put a donation box at you...

Goto Mah on one of the streets of Bhaktapur. Note the boards holding the buildings up. A Volunteer’s Take on our Projects Guest Writer Goto Mah It all started as a call through C$. I was in Pokhara taking a break from volunteering and using some time for myself to sort out my own life while making friends. I was enjoying a sense of community that's hard to achieve when you live on the move . So that said, I was starting to feel like I should move my ass again and help Nepal with the relief effort after the earthquake. That same day I got a call from a friend who told me we were going to do a cleaning/demo action in Kathmandu, so I took an overnight bus that day and I was ready at the Fireflies to finish the banners in Kathmandu. Got the guy's faces painted and off we went to the streets of Thamel to let'em hear us. Then we marched to the temple nearby carrying brooms and shovels. Once we arrived we cleaned what were layers of plastic that had been dropped there for years...