Seat of Our Pants » around the kathmandu valley http://www.seatsofourpants.com An around the world travel blog Sat, 01 Jan 2011 01:08:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Nagarkot – a View with a Room http://www.seatsofourpants.com/2010/01/01/nagarkot-%e2%80%93-a-view-with-a-room/ http://www.seatsofourpants.com/2010/01/01/nagarkot-%e2%80%93-a-view-with-a-room/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:44:58 +0000 Martin http://www.seatsofourpants.com/?p=2616 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Living in Kathmandu doesn’t necessarily mean that you get to experience the mighty Himalayas. Most of the time, haze from pollution and dust obscures the view – a view that’s mostly hidden by the surrounding hills anyway. Sometimes, we forget what we have just around the corner – the biggest mountains in the world.

 

You only have to travel an hour away from central Kathmandu to see them though. We just spent New Year’s Eve in Nagarkot: a small village at the rim of the Kathmandu Valley. The term ‘village’ may be a bit misleading. It is a bunch of resorts coupled with a village and a few small businesses. People come here for one reason: the View. And what a View.

 

view from nagarkot

Alright view + inevitable clothes line

 

If you ask me what I think, I’d say that Nagarkot is a pleasant place to spend a day and a night. Do you have one extra day in Kathmandu? Go to Nagarkot and inhale some fresh air, sleep in a nice hotel and take in the spectacular view. The Official Seatofourpants Nepal Tourism Board recommends it.

 

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]]> http://www.seatsofourpants.com/2010/01/01/nagarkot-%e2%80%93-a-view-with-a-room/feed/ 0 Daytrip to the Nagarjun Forest Reserve http://www.seatsofourpants.com/2009/12/22/daytrip-to-the-nagarjun-forest-reserve/ http://www.seatsofourpants.com/2009/12/22/daytrip-to-the-nagarjun-forest-reserve/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:20:51 +0000 Martin http://www.seatsofourpants.com/?p=2522 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> The other day, we decided that a bit of fresh air wouldn’t hurt. Looking at our options, we decided that a bit of semi-urban trekking would be the thing to do. Hence, we hopped into a taxi to the Nagarjun Forest Reserve, also known as the Queen’s forest. Today it’s no longer the queen’s forest, but the deposed king does indeed live in a nearby villa.

 

Of course, this being Nepal, our forest outing turned into a stair-master style uphill trek. It took us about two hours to reach the summit of a 2095m/6873ft knoll, where we were rewarded with some seriously good views of Kathmandu.

 

kathmandu view from nagarjun

 

As the saying goes here: Nepali flat is a little bit up and a little bit down.

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