The real guide (Real guides)

This guide includes in-depth coverage of the sights of Nepal, and comprehensive restaurants and accommodation listings for all price brackets. It gives practical advice and information on trekking, rafting and mountain biking, plus sections on meditation, yoga and alternative therapies. Background essays on Nepal's ethnic groups, music and dance, natural history, religion, development dilemmas, history and politics are featured and the guide gives information the traveller needs to get off the beaten track to tea gardens, Tibetan refugee villages, monasteries, wildlife parks and hilltop forts.