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  • 4 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Nina Karnikowski

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We’ve been driving for the better part of five hours, traversing a dizzying series of switchbacks on a rough track carved along the cliffs, when the village finally comes into view.

  • 1 month ago | smh.com.au | Nina Karnikowski

    Travel Writer April 18, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s the day we’ve all been dreading. “Death day”, as we’ve facetiously called it; the second-last day of a Buddhism retreat at Kathmandu’s Kopan Monastery, when 130 fellow travellers and I will meditate on our own deaths. We’ve heard whispers about this meditation since the start of the 10-day retreat.

  • 1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Nina Karnikowski

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  • 2 months ago | smh.com.au | Nina Karnikowski

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I’m sipping coffee on the cobbled patio of our villa at Dolkhar Ladakh, watching bumblebees buzz around sunflowers beneath the towering Himalayas, when an apricot drops at my feet. I feel as though I’m in the garden of Eden. Perhaps I am.