Sunday, December 25, 2016

The Guerrella Trek

                        Nepal is the land of Shangrila like a paradise. Stretching from Mahakali river in the west to the Mechi river in the east. Nepal shares border between India and china. The Indian border lies in the south , east and west around 1700KM. And in the north it is bordered with Tibet of China stretching around 1000KM.
People coming from collecting Yarchagumba(Himalayan Viagra)


                        There are numerous of trekking trail in the Himalaya. In this blog today we going to talk about The Guerrilla Trek. The name itself sound unique that how it became Guerrilla trek or Gurrilla trail. Nepal has came through the decade long civil war started in 1996 AD to 2006 AD between Government and Nepali Maoist as a rebel force. During the war time Maoist used to operate their  activities in the remote village where there is no presence of government or there was  very rare or minimal presence.
Maikot village @ Guerrilla Trek



           After few years the Maoist became more violent and aggressive then the government decided to mobilize Nepalese Army against Maoist. The Maoist were all over the country but their headquarter area was in Rolpa district.  They were practicing war skills and training mostly in Rolpa district and most of the combatants were in Rolpa so they have to move to different places in a secret way that nobody knows. Then they have discovered this trail to come to the east close to Pokhara and nearby places thus Gurrella trail was discovered.
Maoist Combatients with dress and arm


Now this Guerella trek is getting famous because of its uniqueness and the opportunity to explore western Nepal as well as we have opportunity to explore many landmark from the decade long civil war.
Maoist build entry gate Rolpa

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Pisang Village Manang Nepal

 
                        There are bunch of beautiful settlement in Annapurna region depending upon the area  and the way of building the houses differ place to place that makes the settlement unique from otheres. In this blog today we are talking about one village from Annapurna circuit way. The name of the village that we going to talk is Pisang. 

Upper Pisang

 The Pisang village is located at the altitude of 3250M above the sea level. This village is divided into two different section that is Upper Pisang and Lower Pisang . The above picture is from Upper Pisang. The house build ed in the Upper Pisang are typical to the region. Lower Pisang also contains many houses following the typical way of building the house . Now due to modernization people are trying to make more western style. Actually what people doing with western style is they are doing the fusion between them.
Lower Pisang & Upper Pisang in distance
The Pisang village is located in Manang district between Dhikur Pokhari and Humde village. The village is very rich in flora-fauna & culture-heritage. The people living in the Pisang village are all Manangis(one of the tribe group from Annapurna Circuit Region) they speak local dialects close to Tibetean Language.
Valley view from Upper Pisang on a snowy day.
The main occupation of the people is tourism like most of the local who are living in the village are mostly engaged with tourism business and their secondary business is animal husbandary, herbs collection, agriculture and service.
  

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Fairs & Festival In Nepal



 Nepal is a country with so many diversity in terms of Language, culture, custom, tradition, fairs & festival. Its hard to believe that everyday is festival in Nepal because its multilingual, multicultural.
Today we going to talking about one of the second biggest festival celebrated in Nepal.

The name of the festival that is very popular among everyone. The name of the festival is Deepawali or the local name of this festival is Tihar. This festival falls in the month of October & November usually. and it lasts for weeks. The festival start with worshiping crows, cows, dog and in the last day the tika (red color)  is exchange between brother and sister for the long life of each other.

The young guys play Deusi(local musical ceremoney) and they goes from house to house singing and dancing and they get some offering from the house owner.

Below we have video from Playing Deusi vailo. This was taken last month during the festival from Namche bazar Mount Everest region.

Monday, December 12, 2016

Alpine Migratory Duck

Nepal is heaven  among bird watchers because of its varied landscape stretched from the foot hill of terai to the Mount Everest roof of the world. Among all those birds today on this blog we are talking about on bird that is found in the lake of high altitude. 

The bird is called Alpine migratory duck. It looks very golden and some look golden brown. These kinds of birds can be found in the lake of Gokyo lake4800M, Tilicho lake4900M, Lake mansarovar4556M, Gangapurna lake3400M, Foksundo Lake3612M, Rara lake3500M.
Alpine migratory bird in Goky Lake 4800M


These birds used to migrate from one place to another place during summer and winter time. The above mentioned lakes are the home for these birds. These birds have special lungs function so they can reach so high like 5500/6000M during the flight. If you have intrest on exploring many tropical/arctic birds Nepal would be your best choice. Himalayan smile treks & adventrue offers several tours for bird watchers. we have discount  provision for student, volunteer and researchers. 

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Upper Mustang Photo Gallery

                  Photo courtesy Himalayan Smile Treks & Adventure Pvt. Ltd


Beni JOmshom Highway 75 Km Day 02 Bumpy road
Prithivi Highway Kathmandu Phokhara 200Km
The bus window view from Pokhara Beni Highway 75Km