Popular Places in Pokhara
Pokhara is a second largest city, situated in the western part of Nepal. It is around 200km far away from Kathmandu valley. The way of traveling to Pokhara is either airplane, a 25-minute flight or regular bus services which take around 5 hours.
It is famous due to its natural beauty for which several national, foreign tourists first decide to visit Pokhara. We proudly can say it is a tourist hub, who come to visit form worldwide. It is an excellent place for people who love nature and to do the adventuresome thing. Everyone who comes here really cannot forget the appealing view of mountains.
It is a hometown for many Gurkha soldiers. Every year around 120 young talent minds join Gurkha Contingent Singapore, similarly around 320 go to British Gurkha recruited from British Gurkha Pokhara.
The journey for the different trekking destination starts when people arrive at Pokhara; a lot of trekking agencies help to book the permit to go to those places, where the government has preserved for foreigners before issuing the permit.
The hotels are available for the luxurious stay, public vehicles, car, jeep, bicycle, motorbikes for hire are also available for everyone.
The best hotels are available in the Lakeside area mainly, not only Lakeside, the best hotels are available in other places as well, but people coming from abroad love to stay in Lakeside for the Lake view and Himalayas.
The places you should never skip during your visit to this beautiful city.
Paragliding
The most thrilling adventure, which is far more popular in Pokhara Nepal. The majority of tourist visiting this city go for paragliding without hesitation. At some stage people coming for a short trip, may not be able to try it, as the pricing is not average for every people. The game is challenging, so the cost is also prepared based on all required resources for it. We've covered it in a separate article, so read further more about it.
Ultra Flight
The next best way of viewing the beautiful Pokhara valley is with Ultra Flight. It is a small aircraft mostly preferable for tourist coming to visit the city. The best season is early autumn to early spring for Ultralight flight.
It is a very lightweight aircraft that has no window and seating for only two persons, including a pilot and a passenger.
Mountain Flight
If you have enough time during your tour, you should never miss the chance to intimately view the Himalayan range, almost touching from the windows of the aircraft.
The ranges of the Himalayas like Mt. Annapurna, Mt.Dhaulagiri, Mt. Machhapuchhre (Fishtail), Mt. Lamjung and Mt. Manaslu can be view during this flight.
You will be able to view Mt. Dhaulagiri, the seventh highest mountain in the world. After that, you can have the brilliant view of Annapurna and Machhapuchhre. The experience with the mountain flight from Pokhara slowly ends with the excellent scenery of Lamjung and Manaslu.
The mountain flights for the Everest Experience is available from Kathmandu. We've covered about it with another great article.
World Peace Pagoda
It is a pagoda-style Buddhist monument to peace, offering stunning mountain & lake scenes including the complete view of Pokhara valley.
It is on the great hight from the Pokhara valley, where vehicle facilities are also available these days. Up to a few years ago, people use to go there by foot from the traditional track from the middle of the jungle.
Phewa Lake
The former Baidam Tal renamed to Few Lake, Phewa Tal is a lake inside Pokhara valley, with fresh water Located at Lakeside Pokhara, where a lot of tourist love to spend their time viewing the lake by walking on the foot track. You can spend your quality time by boating over the lake with your friends & families during your trip.
Begnas Lake
Begnas Lake is a freshwater lake in Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolis of Kaski district of Nepal located in the south-east of the Pokhara Valley. The lake is the third largest lake of Nepal and second largest, after Phewa lake, among the eight lakes in Pokhara Valley.
People from different districts come to visit, boating over this lake, it lies in front of the beautiful village in the Lekhnath, Kaski. The public vehicle service is available to go to the spot. Even people celebrate picnic at the corner of the lake in the winter season.
You could go boating, enjoy the day in the lap of green nature surrounding it. Even you could spend time doing cycling with your friends on the foot track available alongside the lake.
To make the bookings for all the above services or adventures always feel free to contact us via phone call. We even seriously consider the email request via our inquiry section.