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Dambar Budhamagar/Khemraj Gautam A relatively difficult journey through the dirt roads, rivers and dense forests pays off upon reaching Dhorpatan, a popular tourist destination. At an elevation between 2,850 and 5,500 metres above sea level, the natural heaven that lies within the Dhaulagiri Mountain Range in Baglung district in the…

Kathmandu: Nepal Army’s Himal Tamata has won the title of the 3rd Liglig cycle race competition held at Palungtar in Gorkha. He won the title by crossing the prescribed distance of 53 km towards “Man Elite” in 2 hours 24 minutes 27 seconds. He received a medal and a certificate…

HB Kham Thabang is one of the remote rustic villages of Nepal which comprises of one of the 3913 village development committees that came into existence after Nepal was declared as a federal state. Thabang being the epicenter of Maoist insurgency in the past has drawn the attention of many…

Kathmandu:Asia Pacific Regional Workshop began here on Wednesday with an objective of making common concept for sustainable tourism development of Asia Pacific Region and South Asia. Discussion would be held on various issues including searching new tourism destinations for the development and expansion of COVID-affected tourism industry, its diversification, development…

The domestic tourists who have reached Nepal’s only Dhorpatan hunting reserve, spread over the border of Baglung, Myagdi and Rukum, enjoy riding horses. The movement of domestic tourists has increased in Dhorpatan. Photo: Santosh Gautam /RSS A suspension bridge built on Doda River located in Laljhadi Rural Municipality-4. After the…

Tourists going to and from Mustang via the Myagdi road have increased the pressure on the Beni-Jomsom road. Muktinath Temple, Kagbeni, Korla Naka, Lomanthang, Jomsom, Dhumwa Lake, Thini, Leyte and other places are crowded with tourists. Ashok Subedi, head of the Jomsom office of the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP),…

Kathmandu: Efforts have begun to promote Bhadrapur-Pokhara as a tourist destination with the beginning of direct Bhadrapur-Pokhara-Bhadrapur flights. Accordingly, an interaction was organised here on Friday to discuss about ways to promoting tourism linking the two cities in Gandaki Province and Koshi Province respectively. Speaking at the event program organized…

Purna Prasad Mishra Holi, the festival of colours, has started to be celebrated in a more decent way in recent years. Until some years back, young women would stop venturing out in the Kathmandu streets nearly a week before the festival as they were often the targets of some unruly…

Photo: Santosh Gaut /RSS Kathmandu: Qatar’s princess Asma Al-Thani arrived in Myagdi in course of her expedition to the Annapurna I. The 8,091 metres tall peak is the world’s tenth highest mountain and it lies at the Annapurna rural municipality-1 in the district. Her expedition is managed by the Elite…

Achyut Regmi Foreign tourists are gradually starting to appear in Thamel, the major tourist hub in the federal capital, Kathmandu. With the reappearance of large number of tourists in the streets of Thamel, tourism entrepreneurs are hoping for a revival of their business, severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. “The…