Title | Hiking around North-Eastern Hills |
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Start Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | 05/16/2010 |
End Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | 05/16/2010 |
Duration (hrs) | 6 hrs. |
Distance (km) | 15 kms |
Hike coordinator | Subin Shrestha |
Participants | Adam Manandhar, Ashish Bhujel, Ashish Tuladhar, Awanish Ranjan, Badri Adhikari, Binod Raj Pathak, Manoj Rokka, Ravi Sharma, Sanjish Wagle, Satyajit Shah, Subin Shrestha, Sudeep Ghimire, Tilak Thapa Magar & Vivek Shah |
Photos by | Ashish Tuladhar, Ravi Sharma, Satyajit Shah, Subin Shrestha |
Captions by | Ashish Tuladhar, Ravi Sharma, Satyajit Shah, Subin Shrestha |
Report by | Ashish Bhujel |
Creative Support | Dijup Tuladhar, Prerana Pradhan, Sangharsha Bhattarai |
Origin | Location2 | Destination | |
Name | Budhanilkantha | Nagi Gumba | Sundarijal |
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District | Kathmandu | ||
Zone | Bagmati | ||
Longitude | |||
Latitude | |||
Altitude | |||
Recommended Items to See | Budhanilkantha Temple | Hills, forest and locality | Power House, Spring |
Recommended Places to Eat | Any local hotels | Karma Hotel, Any local hotels | |
Recommended Places to Stay | |||
Recommended Activities | Photo Journalism | Hiking and Photo Journalism | Hiking and Photo Journalism |
Recommended means of transportation | VAN/Bus | ||
Available means of transportation | VAN/Bus/Bike | ||
Weather | |||
Culture | Influenced by Tamang Culture | ||
Distance from previous Location | 10 kms | 4 kms | 11 kms |
Means of Transport | VAN | ||
Duration | .5 hrs on VAN | 1.5 hrs | 4.5 hrs |
Ashish Bhujel recollects:
Shivapuri-Sundarijal
Wake up at 5:30; be at “SAKHA complex” at 6:30 and the plan for rest of the day was unpredictable. All I knew was, we were hiking through Northern Hills of Kathmandu valley, a well known hiking trail from Shivapuri to Sundarijal. Since it was my first hike from D2, I was not sure how things were going to be for rest of the day but I was sure that it will be good hike.
It was approximately 7:00 am and almost all the people listed in the hiking list that was forwarded on Friday evening were present, some faces were familiar to me and some new ones. Everybody tried to grab a comfortable seat. Even though I guess I was last person to enter the van, I was happy that I got my favorite seat, the last one to the left. It always feels good to be a “backbencher”. Then it was decided that our first visit will be “Budhanilkantha” temple and will have breakfast near the temple area. We finished our breakfast with Nepali Style – “Cel-Roti” and “Chana” with “Fanta” for drink at around 8:30 am.
The hiking started at around 9:00 AM, with Subin purchasing an entry pass to Shivapuri National Park. We were all geared up with water and snack for rest of the trail, passing through an Army Barrack. I remember that the start was so beautiful, sunlight passing through leaves of trees, smoke coming thought chimney of the barrack. It was like misty morning greeting us with fresh air to breathe. It always feels good be in nature and runaway form busy Kathmandu roads. It all started with a high note, some with groups, some preferred to hike through the woods alone and enjoying the natural beauty. One thing was for sure, everyone was in chatting mood. Some were talking about sports, some were discussing about how the weather might turn out for the rest of the day. During this time all eyes were on the GPS device that we carried and we were trying to figure it out. But luck was not on our side. We could not use it for the rest of the trail due to ‘weak signal’. Among the different topics, me, Adam, Sanjish and Badri were talking about human nature and one topic we stuck for moment was “Men are like rubber bands, Women are like Waves” and Subin asking logical questions. We didn’t even realize that we walked through “Panimuhan” to “Nagi Gumba”. From there, the trail turned out to be a game of hide and seek with the bright sun, sometimes passing through the wood and being in a sanctuary of shades and sometimes exposed to sun. We walked through the trail taking snack breaks in between, taking group photographs, asking for single shot and what not. We did not even realize that we passed through “Taulung” then to “Tarebhir”. And when the trail was about to end, we heard stream flowing and every-body’s spirit was raised high and seemed so eager to play in the water and enjoy every minute of it. We stayed there for half an hour. After feeling refreshed and rejuvenated from playing in the stream, we continued our hike towards Sundrijal.
When we reached Sundarijal, we realized it took us approximately six hours, a whole bunch of topics like, music, sports, work gossips, what we did other day, and whole lot of laughter. Our hike ended in “Purkhauli Ghar” having lunch, which we waited for two hours and accompanied by some good old music. The best part was the starting song that Purkhauli Ghar played was Pink Floyd’s “Comings back to life”.
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01 Pundits on business
02 Sleeping Vishnu
03 All set
04 Hike route
05 Dade kaila
06 Rays of Light
07 Glowing hikers
08 Something fishy going on
09 Kathmandu North
10 Kick-off
11 Colors of Nature I
12 Hariyo ban Nepal ko dhan I
13 Risky business
14 Armymen at work
15 Prayer flags
16 Gabbar-Sambha-Kaliya
17 Tarebhir
18 Break I
19 Shivapuriko Momo cha
20 Tarebhir or Thadebhir
21 Polluted Kathmandu
22 Kathmandu North-East
23 Lonely Cyclist
24 Lonely tree
25 Gateway to heaven
26 Timepass
27 Missing someone
28 Colors of Nature III
29 Cracker promo
30 Jay hos
31 Little devil
32 Dead snake
33 Million $ Smile
34 B & B
35 Do not disturb
36 the 3 stooges
37 Hiking ma shortcut
38 Cool route
39 Sundari bina ko jal
40 Hariyo ban Nepal ko dhan II
41 Best pals
42 Ravi at work
43 I lost mobile
44 Masterpiece I
45 Sallu bhai
46 Masterpiece II
47 Helping hands
48 Moz gardai chha
49 Splash II
50 Concentrate here
51 Channel V
52 Kaat diu
53 Splash I
54 Almost done
55 Beauty of Nature
56 Abandoned
57 Mister Muscle
58 Mechanical lever
59 Hero no1
60 Hamile khane pani
61 Mister Hiker
62 Colors of Nature VI
63 D2 bina ko hawk
64 Master photographer
65 Mero no. kaile aauchha
66 Haku chhoila
67 Colors of Nature II
68 Colors of Nature IV
69 Purkhauli ghar ko sukeko jharana
70 Colors of Nature V
71 Reflections
Major thanks for the blog article.Thanks Again. Really Great.
you should not take the picture of sleeping Vishnu at Budhanilkantha, its forbidden.
These are some real good pictures.
Pic 27, Subin dai bawal hansy
Loved 06 and yea the spoon reflection 71 is cool too
I’ve some of the thumbnail are of poor quality. Please check it once
it was fun. 🙂