Danish mountaineer Morgen Jensen plans to summit Mt Everest and hoist the flag of the United Nations and leave a copy of Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the summit to mark the Diamond Jubilee of the declaration.
A 60-memb ......
Tibet Re-opens from April for Foreigners
News from the Tibetan Tourism Bureau is that from April 2009 Tibet will be re-opened to foreign tourists, as well as to tourists from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau.
It is understood that with the reopening of Namu(Namtso) Lake, ......
Welcome news ahead of Nepal Tourism Year 2011.
National Geographic adventure has hailed Nepal and Brazil among the top draw adventure destinations in the world.
The magazine has conferred the honour on the Himlayan an ......
British paraglider Jami Messenger won the Open Class Championship of 10th National Open Paragliding Championship organised by the Western Regional Chapter of Trekking Agencies’ Association of Nepal (TAAN) in Pokhara.
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Bahrain Air, a private carrier of Bahrain, will launch its Nepal flights from March 3. The airline will fly to Nepal three times a week on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
Bahrain Air is the fifth international airlines after G ......
A contingent of some 50 people will embark on a nine-day expedition all the way to Gorakshep (5,165m) near the Everest base camp in April to play a record-setting Twenty20 charity match.
According to a AFP report, two teams ......
NTY 2011 Campaign Launched
Ms. Hisila Yami , Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation, formally launched the promotional campaign of Nepal Tourism Year 2011 on January 25, 2009 amidst a press conference in Kathmandu. The main objectives of the campaign are to est ......
The world famous artist and political cartoonist Rana Lurie is planning to organize the installment of his major art, the Uniting Art, on Mount Everest.
Lurie plans to put an actual UN canvas, directly brought from the UN h ......
