Today, when the lake is fighting a war for its existence and its lost beauty, the only the thing that we are able to do is watch and speed it to death. The lake is covered with the aquatic weeds and more than that the water is getting polluted day by day. Many NGOs and INGOs shows their interest on these issues but once that get bank for these issues, the issues just remain a issue. •read more...
Before there were newspapers and magazines to tell about events, the wandering minstrel or bard went from place to place singing about battles and acts of bravery. Almost every culture has had these singing newscasters from earliest times until the newspapers and radio slowly replaced them. •read more...
In the hills around Pokhara on the slopes of the Annapurnas are many picturesque villages. The majority of the people living between 5,000 and 7,000 feet are Gurungs. Their main villages include Siklis, Tanting, Ghandruk, Landrung, Armala, Kaski, Dhamphus, •read more...
Pokhara was the winter home of the Thakalis. In the fall after the Festival lights, when the rains have stopped and nights are starting to be chilly, tea shops used to appear like mushrooms all along the trade routes and in Pokhara. They were hurriedly constructed of bamboo mats with red clay stoves and shelves from the shining copper plates and vessels. There were often benches covered with attractive hand woven rugs where travelers could sit to have their tea or food. •read more...
In 1959 the Chinese army shelled the capital of Tibet, and the Dalai Lama escaped from Lhasa and took refuge in India. A number of Tibetans left with him at this time, but with later Chinese army occupation of Tibet, and aggressive incidents in 1962, large numbers of Tibetans left the country and became refugees in Nepal, Bhutan, and India. This was the same year that I joined the Peace Corps and came to Nepal. By the mid-1960, over 1,00,000 Tibetans had become refugees. From ancient times there has been trade between Tibet and Nepal. Caravans of sheep and goats carried salt from Tibet and returned with wheat, barley, or rice from Nepal in their packs. •read more...
The valley of Pokhara lies at the base of the Annapurna Range, 125 miles west of Kathmandu. The name comes from 'Pokhari' meaning a pool of water, which refers to the three fair-sized lakes and several smaller ones found in the valley. Inspite of the lakes still present, Pokhara's valley floor was never a lake bed, so the soil of the valley is very hard and stony and not as fertile as Kathmandu Valley. For a long time it was a mystery how pokhara valley was formed and why there are so many very large rocks at the upper end of the valley. •read more...
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