‘in scenic country around rural farm villages and towns with cultural charm’
Beyond Kathmandu Valley Cultural and Scenic Tour, places worth a visit for a day or two that leads you into rural farm villages and towns of great interest, where you can catch the in-depth of real Nepalese traditional life since it was past hundreds of centuries.
Besides tour of Kathmandu around its famous world heritage sites, where Beyond Kathmandu valley cultural and scenic tour leads you outside the valley rim into fresh Himalayan air with grand views of Himalayan peaks in the harmony of local cultures.
Beyond Kathmandu valley there are many scenic-historical and religious sites which fascinates you with backdrop of Himalayan peaks that you can see in the north direction as well in the comfort of nice and lovely mountain lodge with rooms facing views of snow-clad peaks.
Place worth a visit Beyond Kathmandu valley for cultural and scenic views tour from a day to two days or more in serene and tranquil environment.
NAGARKOT AND CHANGUNARAYAN:
Nagarkot and Changunarayan Tour, a combination of both interesting places where Nagarkot a hill town as well a farm villages, at the
height of 2,120 m high covered with alpine woodland of tall rhododendron-oaks-magnolia and pine trees. One of the most scenic hill top
for excellent views of stunning sunrise and sunset views over array of Himalayan peaks from Manaslu-Ganesh-Langtang-Jugal Himal
range extends towards Gaurishankar as far to Everest range in the far eastern horizon. A great place for overnight and local day hike and
soak into views and local hill people culture of age-old traditional farm life, in the comfort of nice luxurious to standard hotels, lodge and
resorts. From Nagarkot either take a short hike or drive to famous and ancient temple of Changunarayan and its quaint town, leads you to
classic cultural tour around farm hill villages with amphitheatre of farm nice terrace fields with tour of Changunarayan. Changunarayan an
ancient Hindu Temple dedicated to lord Vishnu, this temple listed in World Heritage Site, a fifth century monument located over a hillock
15 km. east of Bhaktapur the temple adorned with full of artistic works on metal and wood. Inscription dating back to 464 AD found here
are the first epigraphic evidences of Nepalese history. After an interesting visit of Nagarkot and Changunarayan, head back to
Kathmandu.
DHULIKHEL-HOLY NAMOBUDDHA TOUR:
Tour outside Kathmandu valley which leads you on good road past interesting farm country with rural villages and towns, the real side of
Nepalese culture and traditional life, where drive of less than two hours reaching you at busy town of Banepa and then at scenic Dhulikhel
for overnight stop to catch sweeping views of Himalayan peaks with striking sunrise and sunsets in the comfort of nice hotels-lodge and
resorts. Dhulikhel, a scenic town worth a visit within its peaceful location facing array of mountains to view along with stunning sunrise,
located beyond east of Kathmandu valley on Lhasa / Kathmandu Friendship Highway also called Arniko Highway (Arniko was first artist to
visit China during Kublai Khan period and built many pagodas in China and Tibet). Dhulikhel mid hill old Newari towns near the holy
Namobuddha monastery area offering glorious views of Himalayan Mountains from the hills of Dhulikhel an interesting day tour with
complete views of mountains and rural villages, Dhulikhel, more than 500 years old town / village. The artistic skill and urban ethos of its
Newar inhabitants have created a place of charm and beauty. Streets lined with bare-brick houses, carved wooden windows, sloping title
roofs, pagoda temples and sacred statues everywhere. You will think you have wandered into a cultural theme park. Interesting and major
places of worship are Narayan and Harisiddhi temples which are adorned with profuse wood carvings. The Gokhureswar Mahadev
temple, a 30 minutes’ walk to the eastern part of town, is a peaceful and scenic spot. The Bhagawati temple is situated at a height in the
western part of Dhulikhel and dominates the skyline. From here, you can get a beautiful vista of the town and surrounding areas. There
are many vintage points in Dhulikhel which offers a panorama of the Himalaya that will leave you spellbound.
Namobuddha:
A short drive next morning takes you holy Buddhist spot at Namobuddha, located in a serene environment, one of holiest place for
Buddhist pilgrimage, this unsurpassable supreme sacred sites known as the Three Stupas in Nepal is Tagmo Lüjin "The place where
future Buddha sacrificed his body to a tigress". This serene area offers great views of snow-capped peaks within its pristine forest
surrounding where one can visit its other important religious site and interesting monasteries and stupas.
