If you want an affordable city that is filled with tasty street food, ancient buildings, and alleys that you can lose ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. High in the Himalaya, a desert is turning green. Climate change in the Indian region of Ladakh has shrunk glaciers and ...

With a broad base and tapering towards the top, Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu exemplifies his taste. The soft chants and smell of incense imparts a Zen vibe here. Like all indigenous architecture ...

A photo series on ice stupas — artificial glaciers in the northern Indian Himalayas — recently won first place in the 2024-25 Onewater’s Walk of Water: Water Towers photo story contest.

The location itself has a special significance for Kath. ‘The stupa in Boudha was a magnet for the refugees from Tibet with whom the knotting culture came to Kathmandu; people settled here with their ...