Memorable trek on the Annapurna balcony

From Nayalpul to Gandruk with Prem and Ram Going on a trek is a bit like taking a trip to the heart of the journey. This provides the same sensations as those which precede big departures: effervescence, excitement, vibration, doubts, worries, questions, apprehensions tempted by jubilation. It’s once again the opportunity to feel this explosive…

Our first trek in Nepal

from Bandipur to Ramkot, guided by Roshan It’s dawn in the charming village of Bandipur, about which I’ll tell you more in a later article. In the early morning mist, the villagers start to get busy, exchanging the usual courtesies. We are surrounded by mountains, but for the moment they remain invisible to our eyes:…

In Nepal, on an adventure with Govinda

Taking the road with Govinda isn’t just about traveling from point A to point B. It’s also something initiatory, philosophical. It’s going to meet new horizons, and so many opportunities to marvel, to wonder, to wonder. It’s having the assurance of not being the same between departure and arrival, after crossing an incalculable number of…

Dive into the heart of Newar life in Panauti

After spending the first days of our stay in the Kathmandu Valley, we are delighted to finally be immersed in a Newar family from Panauti. We take the road impatiently and discover on the way the multiple brick factories. Shortly before arriving at Panauti, we see the new Nepalese constructions all in concrete repainted in…

Fabulous royal city of Bhaktapur

Passer la porte de la cité royale de Bhaktapur, c’est effectuer en quelques instants, une plongée au cœur d’une cité médiévale emplie de vie.

Pashupatinath, a parenthesis in the world…

To join the Hindu sanctuary of Pashupatinath is to enter a world apart. To enter, you must first cross the sacred Bagmati River and leave the bubbling Kathmandu. Then you have to take a little height. On the way, just turn around to discover the Kathmandu Valley which stretches out at the foot of the…

Kathmandu: the city of a thousand temples

Questions inhabit us while writing the first article on this fabulous trip to Nepal. How are we going to make the atmosphere of this country, of this city tangible? How to tell you about the kindness of its inhabitants? How do you share all the smiles received, the emotions experienced, the great moments of wonder…

Enjoy the good life in Ouassane, near Essaouira

Landing a few miles from Essaouira, leaving the madness of the western world, getting into a big blue Mogador taxi and… …arrive in Ouassane, a small village on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. These 15 short kilometres are enough to give time a new course and to activate the function « take life as it comes »….

Bistros and brasseries in Paris

Ah that first coffee in the early morning, around the zinc just in front of the Port Royal metro station, a real ceremony for some of the regulars of the area. And these evening meetings on the terrace of a bistro or a brasserie with friends are a sure way to enjoy a lively evening….

Renata, a fairy for biodiversity

It is in the small fishing village of Marta, on the shores of Lake Bolsena, in Italy, in the province of Lazio… …that a few years ago we met the biodiversity fairy: Renata! From her house you can see the day rising and setting over the town of Capodimonte and its castle… because she lives…

New start, new rhythm…

Make a fresh start and choose to walk to work to take time to meditate before starting the day. Decide to change your pace. In the Jardin du Luxembourg, discover the space that awaits pétanque players. A little further on, decide to stop for a few minutes to admire nature. Be amused to see the…

Last days in Cochin…

Touched by the charm of Old Kochi on the Malabar Coast, it’s time to share moments that will be forever etched in our memories…

Enchantment among marsh birds

Welcome to you friend, reader of this blog or regular walker, to you who has been fascinated by the previous articles or who is discovering them today for the first time. Here are a few minutes of pure happiness to discover the great birds of the marshes… Take your time, move slowly through the marshes,…

A visit to the dancers of the air

We were delighted to find an old tandem bike for rent, forgotten by two Canadians at a Dutchman’s house after a tour of Europe. This will allow us to go for a ride in the heart of the marshes. Decide to go to Latte to see the storks nesting in the marshes. To be amazed…

A Sunday in Montpellier

Stroll through the streets of the town centre, stroll along the Peyrou esplanade, enjoy the sun at the beach…

Women of Rajasthan

On this 8th March: International Women’s Rights Day, remember all the women you met in Rajasthan!

Why go to Pushkar?

Get lost in the crowd and fall under the spell of the city’s 400 temples.

And here is that at night, the Seine came out of its bed

Surreptitiously, insidiously, Demoiselle la Seine, like a young person in revolt, suddenly got out of bed. Without warning anyone, she made herself comfortable, gaining new territories in the middle of the night, leaving her loved ones, for a moment, completely destitute. Taking Parisians and seagulls by surprise, all the inhabitants found themselves astonished, on the…

Paris puts on her white coat

Paris adorns itself with its white coat and allows Parisians, for a few hours, to forget the worries of this period between curfew and confinement…

Meeting Amrita, inhabitant of the Tibetan Majnu-ka-tila neighbourhood

Imaginary, culinary, sensory or cultural journeys… We portray the landscape, the character, the context… it’s up to you to dream and imagine what happens next… Amrita lives in the Tibetan refugee colony « Majnu-ka-tila », north of Delhi, a stone’s throw from the Yamuna River. Every morning she is seen in the small square in front of…