Friday, September 9, 2011

POKHARA - AN ENCHANTING CITY

           Nepal has many beautiful places.One of most extra-ordinary and beautiful place in the world is Pokhara. It is situated at the height of 884mtre and approximately 203km to the west of the capital. The profoundly spritual land, resting on the kind lap of the Annapurna range does comprise a cross-section of human cultures and natural habitants.It is blessed with lush vegetation and swift flowing rivers.Pokhara is in fact a paradaise city where a hustle and bustle of the tourists to enjoy the sheer beauty of nature is very common. Just a single visit to this heavenly city. Pokhara is sure to cast a captivating effect in the memory of the visitors forever and ever.
        The paradise city, Pokhara is extremely known for its scenic beauty. Hundreds of thousands of visitors duo native and outsiders flock there to enjoy the hypnotic glamour of nature and trek arround the valley.The magnificent Annapurna range just 27km away to its north, best of all, the Machhapuchhre(fish tail peak) in its insurmountable pose, do cast ageless attraction to the visitors. The valley does possess three large lakes ;-Phewa Tal,Begnas Tal and Rupa Tal. Phewa is the largest and the most beautiful lake.Visitors do enjoy boating arround it and row across to reach the Barahi temple on a hillock in the mid of lake.Simillarly,Begnas and Rupa lake are some distance away to the east of the town.So, only a few tourists make their visit to these lakes. The perfect orange light on the lake during the dawn dusk, the majestic Fishtail summit and its crystal clear reflection in the Phewalake is indeed unimaginable. It makes the visitors realize the divine power of nature. So, they do feel blessed to be there.
        The Seti-Gandaki that flows right through Pokhara is a scene to look at because it flows underground in some places 30-40 metre below the ground level, cutting a deep narrow george. From the Mahendrapul, the river can hardly be seen flowing deep below the surface.Simillarly,towards the northwestside of the city, there is a limestone cave called the Mahendra cave. The cave is well maintained with electric lights and a flower garden surrounding the area. This is the popular destination to all the visitors.Likewise, nearly a couple of kilometer away to the south west of the airport, the river Pardi flowing from the legendry Phewatal, suddenly drops into the ground and disappears. This waterfal is called the Patale Chhango, now popularly known as David Falls.The river emerges from underground about 200metre away to join the river Purse. A legend has the David Falls that a tourist named David was standing too close to the fall with his girlfriend. They were extremely tempted by the glamour of nature. Meanwhile, the excess of the water was released from the Phewatal that swept away his girlfriend. David instantly in an attempt to rescue her dived into the water, but unfortunately, both disappeared there forever and ever. Thus,the waterfallis named after the eternel lovebirds.Hence, Pokhara is a pure gift of nature. So, it is a paradaise for the naturalists and dreamland for the lovers.

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