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The Sun Koshi River has been named the world’s best rafting river by Lonely Planet, the largest travel guide book publisher in the world.   Originating near Mt Shishapangma in Tibet, the river, whose name means river of gold, carves its way through the Himalaya and into eastern Nepal. The ...

The rule, one of several new measures for mountaineering in the Himalayan nation, will apply to climbers ascending beyond Everest’s base camp from April onwards, said Nepalese tourism ministry official Madhusudan Burlakoti. “The government has decided in order to clean up Mount Everest, each member of an expedition must bring ...

The 15-day Madhyama Parikrama, an age-old circumambulatory pilgrimage march, the biggest of religious pilgrimages in the Mithila region, has commenced. As part of the march, the pilgrims go round Janakpurdham stopping at different religious sites in the area in between before completing the 133 kilometres long journey. The circumambulatory pilgrimage ...

Nepal has achieved a new milestone in its conservation history by bringing down the number of rhino poaching incidents to zero in the last one year.   Not a single incident of rhino poaching has been reported in any of the protected areas since February 16, 2013, which has given ...

Nepal will cut climbing fees for Mount Everest to lure more mountaineers to the world’s highest peak, already overcrowded during the peak climbing season. Hundreds of foreign climbers, each paying thousands of dollars, flock to the 8,850-metre (29,035 feet) Everest summit during the main climbing season stretching from March to ...