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Eileen McDougall

Eileen McDougall

Kathmandu, Nepal
SCMP Contributor
Eileen McDougall focuses on stories about travel, culture and development in South Asia and Myanmar, with bylines in BBC Future, AFAR, Adventure.com and the I. She is at her happiest on a bus heading somewhere new, but returns time after time to the mountains of her native Scottish Highlands.
Eileen McDougall focuses on stories about travel, culture and development in South Asia and Myanmar, with bylines in BBC Future, AFAR, Adventure.com and the I. She is at her happiest on a bus heading somewhere new, but returns time after time to the mountains of her native Scottish Highlands.
Languages Spoken:
English

Veering off the well-worn Annapurna Circuit, the Nar-Phu trail gives visitors a taste of life in two remote Himalayan hamlets in off-grid Nepal, built by Tibetan Khampas, and which seem more Tibetan than Nepalese.

Put off visiting Myanmar by the country’s current political climate, a writer gets her annual fix of its rich culture on the Thai border, where Burmese and other ethnic groups have long mixed with the natives.

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