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Situated 3800 meters above sea level, it was once the hub of the ancient Tibet–Nepal salt trade route. [32] [33] Even though Nepal was opened to the outside world in the 1950s, Upper Mustang was restricted to foreigners until 1992 and currently, there is a limit on how many tourists are allowed to visit.
John Hunt, the leader of the 1953 expedition and one of the first mountaineers to visit the monastery (most, but not all, previous expeditions approached the mountain from the northern (Tibetan) side), offered the following description of Thengboche in The Ascent of Everest: [8] Thyangboche must be one of the most beautiful places in the world.
Tengboche Monastery (or Thyangboche Monastery), also known as Dawa Choling Gompa, in the Tengboche village in Khumjung in the Khumbu region of eastern Nepal is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Sherpa community. Situated at 3,867 metres (12,687 ft), the monastery is the largest gompa in the Khumbu region of Nepal. [1]
Basantapur is located at an altitude of approximately 2,200 meters (7,200 feet) above sea level, making it one of the highest cities in Nepal. It is situated on the eastern side of the Himalayan range and is surrounded by beautiful mountain peaks, including Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world
Situated at a distance of 162 km (101 mi) north of the provincial capital of Biratnagar and 152 km (94 mi) northeast to Kathmandu, Ama Dablam is the third most popular Himalayan peak for permitted expeditions. The most popular route by far is the Southwest Ridge (right skyline in the photo). [8]
The Barun Valley is part of a huge international protected area under an agreement between Nepal and China. Plants like Swertia Barunensis (4200m) and Potentilla Makaluensis (4000 m) nomenclature under the name of river Barun and Mt. Makalu are found only in this area in the entire world. 87 Himalayan medical herbs including Yasrha Gumba and ...
It is located at the Patan Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the city of Lalitpur in Nepal. [2] It was damaged by the Nepal earthquake of April 2015 , and was later restored in 2018. [ 1 ] [ 3 ]
Daman, Nepal. 1979 Daman ( Nepali : दामन ) is one of the most beautiful tourist attraction in Thaha Municipality , Makwanpur District in Bagmati Province , central Nepal . It lies on the Tribhuvan Highway , about 77 kilometres (48 mi) southwest of Kathmandu (about halfway to Hetauda ) at an elevation of 2,322 metres (7,620 ft).