Reflections: Living through the Nepal earthquake / Part 2
by joostay
One year on. My thoughts are with Nepal today.
Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: 2015, earthquake, kathmandu, nepal, story, thankful
Tag: kathmandu
Smoke over Pashupatinath, Nepal.
by joostay
Out of the few pictures I took during and after the earthquake in Kathmandu, it is this one that stays with me. Pashupatinath Temple in the east of the city is well known for its ceremonial cremations, but following the disaster the temple could not keep up with the growing amount of bodies waiting to be burned. For three full days the air was filled with dense smoke rising from the dead, yet it was only when I went down […]
Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: earthquake, kathmandu, nepal, restinpeace, travel
Reflections: Living through the Nepal earthquake / Part 3, Camp Hope.
by joostay
Please contribute to Camp Hope & help those affected by disaster rebuild their lives. It’s been two months since the 7.8 magnitude earthquake left a profound trail of destruction in the villages surrounding Kathmandu, Kavre District and Sindulpalchowk – along with many other areas of central and western Nepal. To date, more than 8,000 lives have been lost with countless homes and villages destroyed. Small (unreported) aftershocks continue to hit the country, and so those who survived the disaster unfortunately still have to live in fear. […]
Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: 25 april, aid, art, blog, charity, development, earthquake, fundraising, hotel, ikimasho, japan, kathmandu, nepal, schools, travel
Reflections: Living through the Nepal earthquake / Part 2
by joostay
Evacuation: Life on the ground and taking a relief flight from Kathmandu to London. It’s been nearly a month since I was evacuated on a relief flight back to the UK by the British Foreign Office after the earthquake in Nepal. Flying home I was a little unsure whether I had made the right decision, thinking I was fine to continue on travelling. But it’s only now that I acknowledge that I was probably more stressed during that first week […]
Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: airplane, asia, backpacking, disaster, earthquake, flight, fundraising, government, help, hotel, kathmandu, london, nepal, red cross, relief, se asia, travel, uk
IKIMASHO Luxury Stays: The Dalai-La Boutique Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal
by joostay
This review was written two days before the earthquake in Kathmandu. I have contacted the hotel and am pleased to report none of the staff were injured, nor was the hotel damaged. Quite often the worst thing about travelling is the actual travelling itself. Struck down with food poisoning in Bangkok, I had to somehow pull myself together and take two flights in one day when all I wanted to do was crawl under the covers and think of anything […]
Categories: Luxury Travel, Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: asia, boutique, hotel, kathmandu, luxury, nepal, review, thamel, travel
IKIMASHO! 