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Travel and Photography | Once Upon a Time in Bhaktapur
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Bhaktapur | Nepal “Were there nothing else in Nepal save the Bhaktapur Durbar Square, it would still be aptly worth making a journey half way round the globe to see.” – E.A. Powell – Bhaktapur (Nepali: भक्तपुर Bhaktapur ), also Bhadgaon or Khwopa (Nepal Bhasa: ख्वप Khwopa), is an ancient Newar town in the east corner of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. It is located in Bhaktapur District in the Bagmati Zone. It is the third largest city in Kathmandu valley and was once the capital of Nepal during the great Malla Kingdom until the second half of the 15th century. Bhaktapur is famous for special…
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Travel Bookstore in Thamel Kathmandu | Nepal Book Depot
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Nepal Book Depot | Thamel Kathmandu If you were looking for great travel book, especially about The Himalaya, Tibet, India and Nepal, then this Nepal Book Depot is one of the best place to visit. You can haggle a bit about the price here and what surprise me more is that, some of the books here are very hard to find even on Amazon website, quite rare and the price area reasonably cheap, especially if I compared it to my home country in Kuala Lumpur or even on Amazon. © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Nepal Book Depot | Thamel Kathmandu I just bought three books…
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Travel and Photography | Postcard From Pokhara | Nepal
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Sunrise at Pokhara Nepal “The beauty of photography is going out seeking pictures that do not yet exist and giving them meaning. To do this, your vision must be sure and your opinion defined. No-one will be falling over themselves for a report on a cycling trip around the world: it was certainly a rare topic thirty years ago, but has since been repeated many times. The world has been covered from every angle; there are hardly any new subjects, unknown tribes and scoops are few and far between. However, YOUR vision, YOUR scoop has never been seen before. So, Be Yourself in Body and Soul.…
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Travel Photography | Once Upon a Time in Pokhara Nepal | A Cup of Coffee With a Mountain View
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | Once Upon a Time in Pokhara | Nepal Whether you wanted to believe or not, is totally up to you, but to be honest with you, those two person in the photograph above were not a “talent”, we do not hire them to pose for this picture. The man on the left is Mr Nadeem our guide for this trip while the women holding the aluminium kettle there is just doing her job. I don’t know maybe she is a someone wife or a worker at this place. This is a private area, I was told, (I don’t know how true is that) but we…
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Al-Madina Halal Foods | Thamel | Kathmandu Nepal
© 2014 Wazari Wazir | A Group Photograph In Front of New Building of Al-Madina Halal Foods Restaurant © 2014 Wazari Wazir | Al-Madina Halal Foods Restaurant | Thamel | Kathmandu Sometimes Muslim travellers find it difficult to find a Halal Foods in Kathmandu but no worry, there is quite a few good Muslim or Halal Restaurant here around Thamel Kathmandu. Among others is Anatolia Restaurant which serves Nepali, Indian, Turkish & Chinese cuisines that can be found in Thamel Chowk area, and my favourite is Al-Madina Halal Foods, which is also located somewhere around Thamel Chowk, in the same row as Annapurna Guest House . So if you have trouble looking for…
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