Jack Dai and the search for the ‘real Nepal’

The British travel creator has become one of the country’s most recognisable online personalities by telling the stories of rural communities in their own language.

In one video, he stands in an open field with a guitar, singing into the wind. In another , he carries a doko on his back, laughing through the strain of a task familiar to rural Nepalis but unusual for a British travel vlogger. Elsewhere, he walks into remote villages, sits with grandmothers for a cup of chiya, joins local men collecting pine needles beneath Nilgiri, follows honey hunters into the cliffs of Baglung, and speaks with villagers in fluent Nepali.