Culture & slow travel
Anisha Gurung
A historian who takes people through kitchens and courtyards rather than past them.
- Based in
- Patan, Kathmandu Valley
- Years guiding
- 11
- Certification
- MA in Nepali history · Licensed cultural guide · Wilderness first aid
- Languages
- Nepali, Newari, English, Hindi
Anisha wrote a masters thesis on Newar guild architecture and then spent a decade discovering that almost nobody wants a lecture. What they want is to be walked into a courtyard they would never have found and told, in two sentences, why it looks the way it does.
Aroha's Kathmandu food walk and the Mustang village journey are both hers. She built the Mustang route around three families she has known since 2019, so the meals on that trip are not staged for visitors — they are what those households eat.
She will always find the vegetarian option, and she will always tell you when the tourist version of a dish is worse than the one two streets away.
A monastery is not a museum. If you can hear someone cooking behind the shrine, that is the interesting part.
Anisha Gurung
- 400+Food walks led
- 4Languages on the trail
- Bara at dawnFavourite single dish
Guide profiles are fictional. The photographs beside them show the terrain each guide works in — they do not depict the people described.
3 journeys
Trips Anisha leads.
Book any of these and this is who meets you at the airport.
Kathmandu after dark: a food walk
4 hours · Max 8 travellers · Year-round
Six stops through the old city between dusk and closing time, eating the things Kathmandu actually eats.
Mustang villages & sacred caves
11 days · Max 10 travellers · Mar–Nov
Eleven days north of the Annapurnas into the old kingdom of Lo — walled cities, cliff monasteries and a landscape with no green in it.
Bandipur ridge & village trails
3 days · Max 10 travellers · Sep–May
A preserved Newar hill town with a car-free main street, walking trails to Magar villages, and the Annapurnas on the skyline.
The rest of the team
Other guides.
Private departures
Travel with Anisha.
Name a guide when you enquire about a private trip and we will build the dates around their calendar wherever we can.