River Rafting Trip in Nepal features in CNN’s best list

CNN has included Nepal’s white water rafting trips in its ‘15 ways to see the world on water’ list. Nepal’s rafting package features in the 9th position in the list published on Nov 23, 2011. “Participants in this epic 15-day trip start in Kathmandu, and after acclimatizing to the dizzying altitude, trek for four days through scenic mountain passes from Pokhara to their river drop-off,” CNN writes, adding, “Then you brave high-grade whitewater accompanied by a world-class expert, and camp each night on virgin river banks before reaching the splendor of Chitwan National Park.” Other water trips included in the list are Explore the pristine coves of Tierra del Fuego (Argentina), Navigate the Yangtze (China), Break Ice in the Antarctic, Ride Norway’s Coastal Steamer to the Arctic Cicle (Noorway), Cruise the Mekong Delta (Laos), Motor up the Amazon (Brazil), Sail through the Alaskan wilderness (USA), Confront giant tortoises in the Galapagos (Ecuador), Watch whales off the coast of Mexico (USA), Float through the backwaters of Kerala (India), Follow the trail of the pharaohs down the Nile (Egypt), Raft the Zembezi’s white water (Zambia), Kayak from sunset to moonlight in the Florida Keys (USA), and Follow a rare canoe trail through Botswana (Botswana).

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Round Annapurna Trek

This long and renowned trek has been shorten to only 9 days trek because of road construction to both sides of the circuit. Though trekkers still have the charm of adventure and panorama of western Himalaya.

- Urgen Sherpa, Trekking Guide

For more info about this trek Info about Round Annapurna Trek

Flight to and from Lukla Resumed

After six days continue flight delay, domestic flight have been resumed from today. According to our local friends from Lukla, more than 10 flights flew to/from Lukla this morning and brought back stranded tourists there since 6 days back due to bad weather.

Weather improved from this morning in this area and visibility was good.

It's said to have more than 1200 tourist who have returned finishing their trek to Everest base camp and Gokyo been stranded in Lukla due to flight cancellation. Some of them have been rescued yesterday by local and army heli services.

According to the weather forecast, the weather remains clear until 3 days more and then could be changed again.

- Lopsang Sherpa

Flights to Lukla have been cancelled from 6 days

Domestic flight to/from Tenjing-Hillary Airport, Lukla have been cancelled for the last four days due to poor whether.

Many tourists have been stranded in Lukla as the flights could not resume their schedule flights.

Three privet domestic airline companies have been operating around 50 flights a day in main trekking season.

Yesterday on 5 day, Tara Air had operated a single flight from Lukla taking a chance of slightly clear weather but later the the thick cloud covered up the airport again.

According my friend Deepak Sharma from Lukla, the hotels & lodges are packed as the travelers are stocked due to regular flight cancellation. Most of them are the tourists who have returned from Everest Base Camp and Gokyo completing their trekking.

- Updated News

- By: Lopsang Sherpa, Adventure Tour Operator

Kanchenjunga Trekking

This 21 days long and one of the challenging trekking begins with a flight from Kathmandu to Biratnagar and then short flight to Taplejung. Then we we hit the route walking through picturesque villages and lush forest to Ghunsha and further up the vegetation gives up its existence due to cold, dry and frozen weather. This area is still isolated from the civilization.

Old monasteries and ethnicity of different people are the most interesting part of this trek on the route and of course the hectic and challenging trek of 2 weeks long walk will be rewarded by excellent close up views of 5 peaks of Kanchenunga, lies on the border of Nepal and Sikkim.

I have been doing this trek since 3 years continuously, at least twice in a year and love to repeat it again. Lodge accommodation enroute are rare so we have to bring our own tent and camping equipment with plenty of food supply. We need proper trekking equipment and personal belongings to protect ourselves from the cold.

Possibility of AMS (acute mountain sickness) is rare as we climb gradually up each day but to be in safe we have to have plenty of medical supplies.

- by Santosh Rai, trekking duide

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