The blue hour
This shot was taken early in the morning from the balcony of the little hotel I was staying in Dulikhel (Nepal). Somewhere, barely visible should be the mighty Himalayas, but Nepal was covered in a thick layer of smog, that already was there when I arrived at the beginning of March, but it got worse in the second part of April.
The result was that much of my travel plans were spoiled because hiking in the hills was hardly pleasant. High temperatures and low visibility meant that I could forget great scenes of glorious mountains.
But I had seen the mountains in the Annapurna region. I have met people that during their holiday in Nepal haven't seen the Himalayas at all.
That said, if you have seen the images of Nepal at the moment with giant floods because of the monsoon, then I should not complain at all. Infrastructure in Nepal is again in many places destroyed, and that means they can start all over in the coming months. An ongoing battle presumably.
The blue hour
This shot was taken early in the morning from the balcony of the little hotel I was staying in Dulikhel (Nepal). Somewhere, barely visible should be the mighty Himalayas, but Nepal was covered in a thick layer of smog, that already was there when I arrived at the beginning of March, but it got worse in the second part of April.
The result was that much of my travel plans were spoiled because hiking in the hills was hardly pleasant. High temperatures and low visibility meant that I could forget great scenes of glorious mountains.
But I had seen the mountains in the Annapurna region. I have met people that during their holiday in Nepal haven't seen the Himalayas at all.
That said, if you have seen the images of Nepal at the moment with giant floods because of the monsoon, then I should not complain at all. Infrastructure in Nepal is again in many places destroyed, and that means they can start all over in the coming months. An ongoing battle presumably.