Got your maps out? Find Nepal and check out the Himalayan ... days to explore Patan (where I lived in 1967-68) and Bhaktapur as well as Kathmandu — all three in the Kathmandu Valley.

EDITOR’S NOTE This story went to press before the earthquake struck Nepal ... known as Lalitpur, a city of 230,000 people of mainly Buddhist influence in the fertile Kathmandu Valley, in the ...