Best Backpacking Beer: Nepal Travel Notes (Italian Edition) Beer Tasting Notebook: 100 Pre-Filled Pages for 100 Beers | Gift Idea (Italian Edition)

The Himalayas' northern ridge was followed, with the journey extending to the Terai and Chitwan, in a reportage of a lengthy trip undertaken in the Kathmandu Valley. The Nepal of today, the roof of the world and a quintessential travel destination, a meeting point between the Mongol populations of Asia and the Caucasian ones of the Indian plains, is explored through its people, landscapes, routes, history, architectures, and philosophies - a mystical Eden where Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, was born more than 2,500 years ago, and where it is challenging to separate history from legend and the latter from folklore.

Massimo navigates amid yaks, sherpas, sadhus, stupas, tuk-tuks, and trekkers, arriving before the Everest and Annapurna, delving into the rampant pollution and destructive progress of Kathmandu, traversing vast rice fields, chaotic constructions, Freak Street, deities, demons, craft beer and alcohol, Hindus and Buddhists, remnant hippies and philosopher-mechanics, ancestral rules, chaos, color, irony, many smiles, and much pain, examining the everyday Nepalese life and comparing it to the writings of Giuseppe Tucci (1894-1984) on his expeditions from 1930 to 1956, as well as those of authors like Bernier, Cartier-Bresson, David-Néel, Le Bon, Levi, Maraini, and Toffin.

This journey is easy to plan but challenging to imagine, with the Nepal of today serving as a meeting point between the Mongol populations of Asia and the Caucasian ones of the Indian plains - a mystical Eden where Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, was born more than 2,500 years ago, and where it is difficult to separate history from legend and the latter from folklore. Massimo's expedition takes him through yaks, sherpas, sadhus, stupas, tuk-tuks, and trekkers, leading him to the Everest and Annapurna, immersing him in Kathmandu's pollution and progress, and allowing him to navigate vast rice fields, chaotic constructions, Freak Street, deities, demons, craft beer and alcohol, Hindus and Buddhists, remnant hippies and philosopher-mechanics, ancestral rules, chaos, color, irony, many smiles, and much pain, all while examining the everyday Nepalese life and comparing it to the writings of various authors.

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