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Articles tagged with #tiger tops

The vagaries of fate
In her last column, Lisa Choegyal takes us on the Trans-Siberian Railway during the Soviet days

Nepal’s tourism now has to re-start from zero
As Covid-19 wrecks the industry, a nostalgic look back at Boris Lissanevitch and his Royal Hotel

No lovelier spot than Kakani
The plot was gifted to the British envoy by the Ranas in the 19th century as a country retreat

Ghosts of Christmas past
Nepali, British and Indian aristocrats used to rub shoulders with ambassadors, writers, scientists and conservationists at Tiger Tops

John R Edwards, 72
Eclipsed by his dominant elder brother, JRE was the unsung hero of the early Tiger Tops

Gap yah gals in the jungle
Such was the allure of adventure in Chitwan, parents actually paid for their offspring to work at Tiger Tops

Recreating Tiger Tops in the tropics
The beginnings of Borneo Rainforest Lodge in Sabah followed the Chitwan model from Nepal

Pilgrimage to Copenhagen
… to track down the Indian-born son of American missionaries who first built Tiger Tops in Chitwan

Sun striped shadows
Close encounters of a wild kind in Chitwan

Survival survivors
Through their enthusiastic lenses, nature film-makers introduced Nepal to a global audience

Adventurers in a vanishing land
The world, and Nepal, have changed since the days of Wilfred Thesiger and Freya Stark
