Pokhara

Pokhara

Pokhara, a beautiful city of Nepal which is located on the western part of Nepal. It lies in the centre of Kaski District and Gandaki Zone with an area of 55.22 km². It is approximately 200KM from Kathmandu valley (Capital city of Nepal) by bus passing through Prithvi highway but the fastest way to reach over there is Airways which is regular flight from Tribhuvan International Airport  to Pokhara Airport . It just takes 25 to 30 minutes to reach over there from Tribhuvan International Airport to Pokhara Airport. Pokhara is one of the second largest tourist destinations in Nepal because of its beauty. Pokara is the second most expensive city in country after Kathmandu. It is the homeland of many Gurkhas Soliders.  

On the ancient days, people used to said that Pokhara where we can find numbers of Lakes and Ponds so that it’s name become Pokhara from Pokhari. It is popular as “City of Lakes” as Phewa Lake, Begnas Lake, Rupa Lake, Gude Lake, Neurani Lake, Deepang Lake, Maidi Lake and Khastey Lake  lies on these city which are the main attraction of the foreigners. Foreginers used to loved boating on this lakes with mind blowing views of Annapurna rang to the north of Pokhara including Annapurna I and VI, Annapurna South and Machapuchhare gives an amazing feelings to the boat rider as well as the lake is surrounded by hills from where foreigners can also listen a sweet voice of birds during their ride. When the sun rises, you can see the reflection of the mountains specially Machapuchhare in Phewa Lake, turyl a photographer’s paradis. This is one of the few places in the world to provide such a dramatic view in a sub-tropical setting.

Pokhara is the gateway from the most of the treks in the Annapurna region, including Annapurna Base Came and Upper Mustang. The sun rise view can be seen early in the morning from the Sarangkot as well as you can do Paragliding from here. Mostly, foreigners and Nepalese came to see sun rise early in the morning so the area looks quite good with lots of people on the hill side. According to the Nature of beauty, there are numbers of places to visit in Pokhara valley.

1.     David Falls: - Spectacular, supernatural and unusual. Davis falls plundes into a cave and disappears into the earth.

2.   World Peace Pagoda (Shanti Stupa):- The Pagoda was built about 16 years ago on the top hill overviewing Phew Lake. The pagoda offers a grea place to see the mountain and the sunset over Pokhara along the people doing boating on Phew Lake. It can be accessed by hiring a boat across the lake and following a pretty good track upward by foot through the forest but we should have to watch out for leeches during the monsoon.  The road passes through Devi’s Fall turning right at the end of Chhorepatan and track upward by foot.