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The World Elephant Polo Association (WEPA) has finished its preparation for this year’s elephant polo championship which would be held in Bardia from November 29th to December 5th. This is the 28th championship in the history of WEPA. The organizers have confirmed the participation of 11 teams including those from Hong Kong, Iceland, U.S. England, Singapore, Thailand and Nepal. The participating teams were supposed to have ... Full story

Min Bahadur Sherchan of Nepal who is now 78 years old has legitimately replaced Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest man to climb Mt Everest. Sherchan, who is a retired solider sets his eyes on breaking his own record. He aims to climb the Mt. Everest once again when he turns 84 in 2014. “The oldest man to ... Full story

While Nepal is gearing up to raise issues of threats to Himalayas due to effect of climate change during the Copenhagen conference, it has got a copious amount of financial assistance from the UK government´s Department for International Department (DFID) as an aid to deal with the problems of climate change and deforestation. Tony Burdon, deputy head of DFID Nepal, has recently announced 50 million pounds ... Full story

The Nepal Association of Rafting Agents (NARA) is organizing the whitewater running festival namely, 9th Mountain Dew Himalayan Whitewater Rafting Challenge 2009 with an aim of promoting general tourism along with promoting rivers of Nepal as the world's premier river running tourism destinations. The three day event is taking place in the ... Full story

Nepal is drawing attention of the international tourism arena once again with three significant tourism events taking place in Kathmandu after some days. Tourism organizations and associations are now busy with the preparation of the three main tourism events of this year: 43rd Congress of the United Federation of Travel Agents Association (UFTAA) 3rd National Tourism Fair 2009 the 3rd NATTA Himalayan International Mart 2009 An ... Full story

Fright of climate change and its effects is making life of alpine people a nightmare. People of Mustang have also been experiencing terrible nightmares due to the effects of climate change in their livelihood and economy lately. Fluctuation of temperature and irregular pattern of rain and snowfall has severely affected the lives of Mustang. Mustang’s ... Full story

Nepal’s participation on the 30th World Travel Market 2009 was successfully organized by Nepal Tourism Board from 9-12 November 2009 leading a contingent of 27 Nepalese Travel Trade Companies at ExCeL, London. Mr Aditya Baral, Director at Nepal Tourism Board headed the Nepalese delegation. World Travel Market is a global stage for the worldwide travel trade professionals to meet, associate, network, consult and accomplish business.  Nepal ... Full story

An expert Slovenian mountaineer who had been stranded in the Himalayas during his solo climb is found dead. Bad weather was hampering rescue efforts and unfortunately he lost his life, his expedition organizer, Asian Trekking said on Saturday. "The mountain that Humar was climbing, Langtang Lirung, is technically tough and not ... Full story

Third Joint Coordination Committee Meeting was held in Kathmandu on November 8th and 9th with an endeavor of promoting tourism between Nepal and Tibet Autonomous Region. The meeting held is pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding signed in August 2003 between the Nepal Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation and Tibet Tourism Bureau. The Nepalese delegation was led by Mr. Murari Bahadur Karki, Joint Secretary, the ... Full story

A special Birthday function was organized in Chitwan National Park this week. On November 6th, first birthday of twin elephants’, Ram and Laxman was observed in Sauraha Elephant Breeding Center. The staffs of the Chitwan National Park, tourists, guests and all other elephants of the breeding center attended the function and enjoyed. A special cake made of rice flour with jaggery and decorated with bananas, apple ... Full story