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Ashad 15, The Festival of Ropain and Dahi Chiura
National Paddy Day or ‘Dhan Ropain’ festival is the day to play in the mud, throw mud at each other and sing and dance to the traditional folk songs and of course have yogurt and beaten rice, ‘Dahi Chiura’ and drink a special kind of local drink called ‘Chyang’.
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Local Drinks Of Nepal
The local drinks of Nepal include the popular drinks such as, Chyang, Aila, Tongba, Raksi and Corn and Millet Chyang.
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Yulin Dog Festival? Ermm…NO! Nepal’s Dog Festival is Awesome
Yulin Dog Festival? Ermm…NO! Dogs in Nepal are honoured with garlands of marigold, have tikas put on them and are offered delicious treats.
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The 8th wonder of the world: Tribhuvan International Airport
Originally Nepal Airport was built to accommodate 1500 passengers per day and it still works flawlessly even for 15,000 passengers.
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Nepal Trekking in May
May in Nepal has more sunny days compared to rainy ones so it is comfortable to trek in high altitudes.
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Top Trekking Maps for Nepal
Map helps you to map the place which you may not map without a map. Is it confusing? But a map surely is not made to confuse you but rather to clear your confusion, but this implements only to those who know how to read a map, otherwise you will be tangled in the line […]
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Top Guidebooks for Nepal
Here are the top four guidebooks for Nepal that can give you authentic and fun-filled information.
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Why Visit Nepal Now? Limited Impacts of Earthquake on Tourist Hotspot
Keeping away from places freshly desecrated by natural disasters is a natural reaction, especially for tourists. Such decisions are usually accepted as well founded. Natural disasters, and bigger ones at that, leave hundreds of thousands or even millions of people homeless, without jobs and most importantly with uncertainty over future. As for visitors, such post-disasters […]
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What is Soma Ras, the Drink of the Gods?
Soma is exalted in the Rig Veda, an Indo-Iranian scripture, as a drink that brings immortality and divinity to the drinker. Perhaps taking a cue from this reference, Aldous Huxley in his dystopian novel, Brave New World, uses the word ‘soma’ to refer to a recreational hallucinogen. Utopian or dystopian, the fact remains that psychoactive […]
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Bajra Barahi, Nepal
This is the temple of the boar headed Goddess on a human body who is commonly known as Barahi. Bajra stands for a mythical sword of lightning and thunder. She is also considered to be a Matrika, a name given a group of seven or sometimes eight Mother Goddesses. She is regarded as the personification […]
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