Off the Beaten Path and Alternative Travel Around the World
Our travel blog includes an eclectic mix of architecture, abandoned places, street art, off-the-beaten-path places, and memorials and monuments across the near and Far East. Welcome to Kathmandu & Beyond. We are full-time travellers, Mark and Kirsty Bennetts. We’re from the UK, but, for the past 12+ years, home is wherever we lay our backpacks!
Alternative & Off the Beaten Path Travel - Kathmandu & Beyond
Our personal interests combined with our passion for Asia and Eastern Europe have shaped our travel blog over the years, and today we focus on the regions of Asia, the Far East, and the New East (Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic states, and Central Asia).In-depth subjects include off-the-beaten-path travel, street art, abandoned places, monuments and buildings from the former USSR and ...
Suggested Tibet Itinerary: Lhasa to Kathmandu via Mount Kailash
Our Tibet itinerary is based on starting Lhasa and ending in Kathmandu, Nepal, and also includes the lesser-visit region of Western Tibet. We arrived in Tibet via the Beijing-Lhasa train but the other option is to fly into Lhasa.Dedicate at least three clear days to exploring the Tibetan capital and its surrounding monasteries – Sera, Dreprung and Ganden are all must-sees.
Suggested Itineraries for Independent Travellers & Backpackers
We have intentionally decided not to makes these itineraries detailed day-to-day what to do guides, but instead aim for them to provide a suggested route, a guideline designed to help with your initial planning, give you some ideas, or to inspire a journey that is a little bit less ordinary. We’ll give you the framework to inspire; you add ...
UNESCO World Heritage Sites - Kathmandu & Beyond
UNESCO World Heritage Sites. There are currently 1,154 UNESCO World Heritage listed sites in the world. Across 2020 and 2021, thirty-four sites were added to the official list, which can be seen here. The committee usually meet annually but the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee, initially scheduled from 19 – 30 June 2022, is postponed.
Journey Maps - Kathmandu & Beyond
2014 Journey Map. 2014 was a great year! We kicked off with three weeks in Cuba followed by three months in Central America, travelling from Panama to Belize via Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and on to Mexico. Travels in Europe followed: through the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, on to Helsinki in ...
Off-the-Beaten Path Travel - Browse Blog Posts by Destination
Although we’ve written about sixty-eight of the one-hundred plus countries we’ve visited, our most comprehensive posts are about the destinations that we’ve been focussing on for the past few years. Namely Asia, the Far East (notably Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Taiwan), and the New East (Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic ...
Travel & Photography Blog | Off the Beaten Path Experiences
Our blog posts cover an eclectic range of topics and destinations. In sharing our experiences, we hope to inspire you to travel to off the beaten path destinations and seek out unconventional things to see and do in better-known places. Niche topics include abandoned places, street art, Soviet-era monuments and Brutalist architecture, but you ...
Nepal Travel Blog - Travel Guide for Independent Travellers
Our Nepal blog posts are generally aimed at independent travellers and backpackers like us and have a strong focus on travelling around using public transport, staying in budget accommodation and exploring off-the-beaten-path and lesser-visited places.
Trip Types - Kathmandu & Beyond
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