Mount Everest

Mount Everest is one of the highest mountains in the world. It is part of the Himalayan mountains. They were formed in the last million years. Height : 8848 meters or 29,029 ft.

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Monday, August 20, 2012

Everest

Everest Mount Everest is one of the highest mountains in the world. It is part of the Himalayan mountains. They were formed in the last million years. After the supercontinent of Laurasia broke up millions of years ago, India moved slowly north towards Asia and then crashed into him. The seabed between the two plates (the earth's  crust is divided into large areas of land called plates) was crumbled and pushed up on the northern edge of...

Where is Nepal

Map of Nepal Where is Nepal? Nepal is a country of unimaginable extremes. Imagine a rectangle of 500 by 150 miles (800 by 240 kilometers), divided lengthwise into 3 strips. The northernmost strip is that the Himalayas, which means "abode of snow", and includes eight of the 10 highest mountains in the world. Nepal, a Himalayan country, is found on the slopes of the central Himalayas and represents approximately one third of its length. Nepal...

Boudhanath

Boudhanath Boudhanath symbolizes Tibetan Buddhism. It is located 8 kilometers east of Kathmandu and was built by King Man Dev Licchavis in the 5th century AD Its colossal and ancient stupa is regarded as one of the largest stupa in the world and is built on an octagonal base and inlaid with staggered niche representing Buddha and his teachings. After the Chinese invasion in 1959, Tibetans in thousands flocked to this famous Buddhist Chaitya...

Lumbini

Mayadevi Temple Lumbini has a number of temples, including the Mayadevi temple, and others under construction. It remained neglected for centuries. Lumbini is situated in the southern Terai plains of Nepal and is about 300 kilometers southwest of Kathmandu. It is the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha and therefore is considered a sacred pilgrimage site for Buddhists. In 250 BC, Emperor Ashoka built a stone pillar containing an inscription...

Buddha

Buddha Lord Buddha received from his father a message asking him to visit his native place, so that he might see him once more before he died, and was born in lumbini during the full moonday in the month of April(Baishakh). It travelled to many places to impart his teachings and today these places have become important tourist destinations. It's philosophy is still applicable if you consider world to be a perfect place and void of terrorists...

Pokhara

Rara Lake Pokhara is one among the foremost fashionable tourist destinations in Nepal, and is additionally a contemporary town additionally to its history and nature. it's various museums and there are some fascinating caves, waterfalls and Tibetan villages within the surrounding hills. Pokhara records the higest rainfall within the country. Pokhara gets additional rain than the other town of Nepal, and se encuentra en una importante ruta...

Kathmandu City

Kathmandu Durbar Square Kathmandu with its distinctive architectural heritage, palaces, temples and courtyards has impressed several writers, artists, and poets, each foreign and Nepalese, and , the capital town of Nepal, is one in all the oldest cities of the globe set admits within the lovely valley of Himalaya and loved by people who appreciate the character at its best. it's the hub of Nepal's ancient culture and humanities. It video...

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Whitewater Rafting

Whitewater Rafting - Bhote Koshi Rafting is inarguably the simplest manner of exploring Arcadian Nepal. The waters supply one thing to everybody: from grade 5-5+ rivers with several raging Whitewater Rafting for the brave and therefore the adventurous, to grade 2-3 rivers with a number of rapids for the laid-back sort. the gorgeous issue is that almost about anybody, whether or not recent or terribly young, can raft. Moreover, it will either...

About Mountain Biking

Mountain Biking Nepal's various terrain may be a mountain biker's dream journey come back true. Mountain biking offers an environmentally sound manner of exploring this magnificent country, its landscape and living heritage. as a result of this can be a Spartan, laborious mode of travel, it's additionally thought of the thanks to travel by the 'purists'. There are many dirt roads and trails in Nepal to satisfy each mountain biker's wildest fantasy....

Jungle Safari

Jungle Safari A trip to Nepal is incomplete if you have got not been on a jungle safari. whereas the mountains of the north have a number of the best and most opulent peaks within the world, the tropical jungles of the Terai preserve a number of the simplest wildlife habitat within the  Subcontinent. a number of these made wildlife habitats are currently protected, and might be toured on elephant back, 4WD, dugout canoe or on foot in the...

About Paragliding

Paragliding Paragliding is a comparatively new journey sport in Nepal, and small data is on the market in tourist guidebooks. "Paragliding" during this Himalayan country will be a really wonderful and fulfilling expertise for the adventure-seekers. you'll be able to expertise unparalleled scenic grandeur as you share airspace with Himalayan griffin vultures, eagles, kites, whereas floating over villages, temples, lake, monasteries and jungles,...

Nepali Nepalese

People in Nepal commonly welcome you Namaste as a traditional salute (means I salute the divine in you) that is wisely employed in the foremost a part of country. concerning twenty three million Nepalese are product of sixty nine completely different cultural and linguistic cluster conjointly called ethnic teams living in numerous, regions of the country. principally every ethnic cluster has their own distinctive costumes, speak their own languages or dialects, and follow their own non secular practices. They live below completely different various...