Cultural in Nepal

A short visit to a Chepang village in Nepal's central foothills during the spring cliff-honey harvest. You walk in with the harvest crew on a working day, watch from a safe vantage the crew chooses, and stay with a host family. The bees are Apis laboriosa, the world's largest honeybee; the rope-and-bamboo-ladder technique is Chepang Indigenous knowledge. Max-6 group, crew-led timing, no re-enactment.

A 14-day journey into Upper Mustang — the trans-Himalayan kingdom of Lo, closed to foreigners until 1992 and still a designated restricted area. Walk through eroded red and ochre canyons to Lo Manthang, the 600-year-old walled capital, with two days inside the city to explore the royal palace, three monasteries, and the surrounding Sky Caves of Mustang.