Inside Cafe Cheeno in Patan, Mike Krajniak sat relaxed and open. After 40 years in Nepal, the American industrial designer ...

Nepal has chosen a 2-year-old girl as the new living goddess following the Himalayan country’s old tradition. Aryatara Shakya was chosen as the new Kumari, or "virgin goddess," replacing the incumbent ...

It was close to seven in the evening on Sunday, Aug. 13. The weather was cloudy and it was still drizzling in Kagbeni. A heavy spell of rain had lashed the picturesque high mountain village in the ...

A two-year-old girl chosen as Nepal’s new living goddess was carried by family members from their home in a Kathmandu alley to a temple palace Tuesday during the country’s longest and most significant ...

A two-year-old girl has been chosen as the new living goddess of Nepal. She was carried by her family members from their home in a Kathmandu alley to a temple palace on Tuesday, coinciding with the ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — A 2-year-old girl chosen as Nepal’s new living goddess was carried by family members from their home in a Kathmandu alley to a temple palace Tuesday during the country's longest and ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal – A 3-year-old girl became Nepal's new living goddess Thursday, revered by both Hindus and Buddhists in the Himalayan nation. Trishna Shakya was carried in a religious ceremony to a ...

Nepal has been conducting systematic tiger population counts using automated camera traps since 2009. Under the Tiger Conservation Action Plan, censuses were carried out in 2013, 2018 and 2022. The ...

This story appears in the June 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. EDITOR’S NOTE This story went to press before the earthquake struck Nepal on April 25. The kumaris in the Kathmandu Valley ...

Toddler Aryatara Shakya has been appointed Nepal's new Living Goddess Kumari following an ancient selection process which included a traditional Trial of Bravery. The two-and-a-half year old girl was ...