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Cirrus Pokhreli skies

Where flowers bloom so does hope.
- Lady Bird Johnson


Mustard fields in Maaleypatan

This is why we can Pokhara a heaven's grace:

Very wonderful photography, very good job indeed meek,
Always good wishes

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...” - Diane Ackerman quote

Grab your coat, and get your hat,
Leave your worry on the doorstep
Just direct your feet,
To the sunny side of the street.
- Dorothy Fields

No joke.

pokhara gaye jastai lagyo.....

Get the virtual blessing here from Bindhyabaasini Mandir

We are but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass.
-Chester Powers

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through. - Irish blessing

“It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.”
- Susan Sontag

“Silence is a fence around wisdom” - German Proverb

Most Pokhara hotels booked for New Year

BY KULCHANDRA NEUPANE


POKHARA, April 13 - Hotels in Pokhara are jam-packed lately, following tourist influx in the city on the eve of Nepali New Year that falls on Saturday.
Most of the better known hotels are already taken away with large inflow of tourists for the last one week, and the trend continues to grow.

According to hoteliers, some 1,000 tourists are arriving in Pokhara every day by road, flights, including those returning from trekking.

Hoteliers say the number of foreign tourists has nearly doubled in the last one week. Foreigners have booked over 100 rooms in Pokhara's only 5-star hotel, Fulbari Resort in the last two days. According to Krishna Acharya, front desk officer at the resort, all rooms in the hotel are "fully packed" for new year eve which falls on Friday.

"We are unable to offer accommodation to tourists even if they pledge handsome payments," said Biplav Poudel, vice-chairman of Regional Hotel Association. According to tourism entrepreneurs, Pokhara is receiving huge turnout of tourists also because hotels in Kathmandu and its neighboring outskirts are already packed.

As many tourists have chosen to come to Pokhara, even the airlines have declared their Pokhara-bound tickets sold out. To address the shortage, Yeti Airlines (YA) flew its 30-seater aircraft, which made 10 flights on Thursday alone. "Nearly 300 passengers are coming to Pokhara daily by air," said Amrit Singh, station manager at YA Pokhara office.

Similarly, Buddha Airlines increased its regular flights from six to eight on Thursday.

Equal number of tourists are entering Pokhara by road. According to Hari Sharma, Pokhara chapter chairman of Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA), some 8-9 tourist buses carry over 300 foreign tourists to the resort town every day. However, he said the number could have been more if highway transportation entrepreneurs had not prohibited tourist buses from carrying domestic tourists.

Likewise, the number of tourists returning from the popular Annapurna trekking route are also increasing as Pokhara gears up for New Year celebrations.

However, tourism entrepreneurs in Pokhara do not have records of Nepali tourists visiting the city.

"Some 400 motorcyclists from Kathmandu will be arriving in Pokhara on Friday for the new year eve," said Bacchuram Tiwari, chairman of Pokhara Hotel Entrepreneurs' Association. The association has been organizing

attractive packages, street festivals and cultural programs to make Pokhara the most sought-after destination, during the New Year.

Tourists’ per day influx

1. 300 by road

2. 300 by flight

3. 250 through Annapurna trekking route

4. 100 arriving through private means and tour operators

Source: Kantipur

Lake side rooftop restaurant

ROot top restaurant. hamro ghar pachadi..ehehhe
increasing traffic of tourist is needed in pokhara

the new temple in Bindhyabasini periphery

Tori baari again

Windows
- by Donovan Holtz
Across the headlands
The forest masses
Under gray skies
And mist
Into a solid wall
Of muted gray
Through which cars
Glide skirting noiselessly
The rocky edge.
Through a window
I watch, windows are
For watching -
Square pieces of life
Ever changing.

that window was in Tibetan refugee camp