The Annapurna region offers treks of every length. The Annapurna Circuit (about 12 to 18 days) crosses the Thorong La pass at 5,416 m, through deep valleys and Tibetan-style villages. Shorter, the Poon Hill trek (4 to 5 days from Pokhara) climbs through rhododendron forest to a sunrise viewpoint over Annapurna and Dhaulagiri.
The Annapurna Base Camp trek leads into a ring of peaks. Permits (ACAP and TIMS) are needed. Teahouses provide food and beds.
Pokhara's Phewa Lake reflects the snowy peaks of the Annapurna range, including the fishtail summit of Machapuchare, on clear mornings.
The place where Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, was born in 623 BC, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A national park in Nepal's lowland jungle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, home to one-horned rhinoceroses, Bengal tigers, sloth bears, gharial crocodi…
The old royal palace square of Kathmandu, with pagoda temples, the Hanuman Dhoka palace and the Kumari Ghar, home of the living goddess Kumari, who s…
One of the largest stupas in the world, a great white dome with the all-seeing eyes of the Buddha painted on its tower, the centre of Tibetan Buddhis…
A one-hour sightseeing flight from Kathmandu along the Himalaya to Mt Everest (8,849 m), passing Langtang, Gauri Shankar, Cho Oyu, Lhotse and Makalu.
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