David Ways

David Ways began an epic journey in 2005 to travel the world in search of home. He traveled solo overland from Sintra in Portugal across Europe into Iran, Pakistan, India and Nepal where he discovered the feeling called home. After that he traveled up into Tibet overland into China to the far east before exploring the rest of South East Asia.

Throughout his life David documented his journeys using everything from notepads to email drafts to writing on one of the very first blogging platforms to creating www.thelongestwayhome.com. It was on this website that David began writing out practical, frank and detailed travel guides to help fill the gap that commercial travel guidebooks left out. There was no looking back.

For over 14 years David has created what is today the worlds number one online travel guide to Nepal (he’s working on a few other countries as well). He’s created and continues to publish innovative live interactive digital guidebooks to Nepal which have changed the way many people travel the country.

In 2015 David founded the Digital Archaeology Foundation to help preserve Nepal’s cultural heritage digitally for future generations.

In 2016 David launched MissingTrekker.com. A website portal to help the family and friends of trekkers who go missing in Nepal.

In 2017 his Nepal guidebook was published in paperback by Himalayan Travel Guides and became a national bestseller.

Throughout all these years David’s been taking notes, logging and documenting Nepali heritage for another project. In 2018 he spent the year piecing everything together for what would become the Kathmandu Valley’s largest, most thorough and most concise book on Kathmandu Valley Heritage Walks.

Then in 2019 Kathmandu Valley Heritage Walks was published in paperback along with the second paperback edition of the Nepal Guidebook.

David wrote this book to provide a unique snapshot in time of heritage in Nepal as it stands today. Moreover, he wrote this book to give everyone in the world the ability to discover, rediscover and enjoy unique heritage which can only be found in Nepal.

Throughout the pandemic in 2020 David kept all is his digital guidebooks updated with the situation in Nepal and they became the only guidebooks in the world to stay updated.

Despite a global lockdown which prevented books from leaving Nepal, in 2021 David published the latest editions of the Nepal guidebook and Kathmandu Valley Heritage Walks in paperback format on an international platform. David followed this up with the publication of a Trekking Journal, and a fiction book "Don't Forget Your Guidebook". In 2022 the third edition of the Nepal guidebook was published making it available to all travelers as the country once again opened up to visitors.