Not only for mountaineers and adventurers, the mountains of Nepal serve as a great place for nature and educational tours. In the high mountains, there’s much a young learner can learn – be it the unique culture, mountain ecology and bio-diversity or life’s lessons. The mountains, as one student remarked, “really opens up your eyes”. [...]
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Triumph of the Human Spirit – Two Visually Challenged Australians make it to Everest Base Camp
As an adventure travel company known for taking up pioneering projects, Explore Himalaya has never shied away from a challenge. So the company took it as a challenge, when it received an enquiry from its Australian agent to organize a trek for a group of five including two visually challenged individuals – Nick Gleeson and [...]
Images from Beijing-Lhasa-Kathmandu Tour
Explore ancient palaces, monasteries and temples; ride on the world’s highest train; journey to (almost) the top of the world, the Everest Base camp – take the Beijing- Lhasa-Kathmandu(train & jeep) 18 days tour and embark on an unforgettable journey. Beijing – Beijing, an ancient capital and a bustling modern metropolis, a city of amazing [...]
Miss Nepal is NTY 2011′s Brand Ambassador
Nepal Tourism Year -2011 national committee has appointed the newly crowned Miss Nepal, Sadichha Shrestha as Nepal Tourism Year 2011′s brand ambassador. The beauty queen is expected to promote Nepal and NTY-2011 campaign nationally as well as in the international pageants she will be taking part in.
Bhaktapur Durbar Square entry fee to be increased
Bhaktapur Municipality has planned to increase the tourist entry fee for Nepal Toursism Year 2011. Starting January 2011, the new entry fee to Bhaktapur Durbar Square will be Rs 100 for visitors from SAARC countries and Rs 1,000 from visitors from other countries. Bhaktapur, one of the seven UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Kathmandu [...]
Kailash Yatra Coupled with Darshan with a Mahayogi
We would like to inform that members of our Kailash Mansarovar Heli Tour 2011 fixed departure groups will get an opportunity to meet revered Hindu spiritual guru and Mahayogi Pilot Baba. About Pilot Baba Pilot Baba, a Mahayogi and revered Hindu spiritual leader, was known as Kapil Singh before he turned to spiritualism. He was [...]
Heli Pilgrimage tour to Halesi
Pilgrimage Tour to Halesi Fishtail Air’s heli- pilgrimage tours are getting quite popular among pilgrims, especially the elderly. The company has introduced another important site to their list of pilgrimage destinations: the temple of Halesi Mahadev. Halesi, known as the ‘Pashupatinath’ of eastern Nepal, lies in Khotang district in Eastern Nepal. The hill top temple [...]
Trek to the Hidden Kingdom of Mustang
“It has always been a personal dream for me to visit Mustang”- Patrick Fauchère Patrick & Marie Fauchère (Pic:Nirgaman Maharjan) It had always been a dream for Swiss pilot Patrick Fauchère to visit Mustang, the last Hidden kingdom, since he first visited Nepal in 1982. Explore Himalaya feels honored to have played a part in [...]
Manakamana Cable Car records Highest Number of Passengers
Manakamana Cable Car, the cable car that ferries the pilgrims to the hill-top shrine of Manakamana Devi in Gorkha district, has recorded the highest number of passengers during the current fiscal year.According to reports, of the over 800,000 visitors, 60 percent were Nepalese while 40 percent were international. Installed by an Austrian company, the Manakamana [...]