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Twice a year, a shrinking handful of Gurung cliff-honey hunters risk their lives for a hallucinogenic honey that sells for up to $900 a kilogram…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 19, 2026
Twice a year, for about two weeks at a time, a handful of Gurung men climb hand-woven bamboo ladders hundreds of feet up sheer Himalayan cliff faces to rob the world's largest honeybee of a honey that can make you hallucinate. It's called mad honey, it's…
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What this means for you Honey-hunting tourism is real and growing in Lamjung and Kaski, and spring or autumn is the only time to actually see it happen — but this is a substance with genuine, documented toxicity, not a novelty souvenir. If you want to try it…
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