Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Langtang - One of the best Trekking around !

                                                                       TREKKING!

 
 Langtang is the closest trekking region to Kathmandu also can be started in Kathmandu itself.
           From Sundarijal, just outside Kathmandu the fourteen day trek follows the Shiva pilgrim trail for 150 kms, over the Shiva Puri Ridge, over the Gosainkund Lekh. The Langtang Trek provides an opportunity to see the nearly whole Nepalese Himalayan mountain range from Annapurna in the west, to Makalu in the east. On the morning of the second day, this amazing view can be seen for the first time from the top of the Shiva Puri Ridge.
 


                 
                                  The trek continues along a high ridge for 6 days until it crosses the Laurebina Pass. Just below the pass lies the Gosainkund Lakes at 4,300 metres. The Gosainkund lakes are the object of the Shiva pilgrim trail for they were once visited by Shiva himself. From here, the path descends to Syabru, an interesting village on the crest of a ridge.
                                            The trek now enters the Langtang valley. The Langtang valley is sacred and no animals may be killed here. It is also a national park. The forest is full of wildlife.
                                                Higher up, past the tree line, lies Kanjin Gompa, an architectural master piece. Its sloping walls complement the slopes of the mountain behind, Langtang Lirung.
            
The Langtang valley continues west and then north for another 50 kilometres beyond Kanjin Gompa. This is beyond the range of tea house trekking, for there are no lodges.       
                   This region was visited in the 1950s by TW Tilman, who found rumours of Yetis amongst the local herdsmen. Today, the upper Langtang region is visited mainly by expeditions to Dorje Lakpa and Shishi Pangma.
                  Finally the trek returns down the valley to Syabru Bensi from where the bus can be caught to Kathmandu.
 
You can find many interesting things while walking towards like 


MOuntain Grapes Only found in mountain region



Bee-hive n honey!!

                                             Rivers floating around the region

Mount Everest - Peak Of the World

MOUNT EVEREST(8848 meters)                                  

                                        

                                   The early 1950s when Tenzig Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary first climbed its summit.It was that day when a human foot step was printed at the toppest of the World, Mt. EVEREST, 8848 m tall.  
           Mount Everest is just one of over 30 peaks in the Himalayas that are over 24,000 ft/7315m high. Himalaya is a Sanskrit word meaning, "abode of snow", which is so true. The snowfields which dominate many of the peaks in the Himalayas are permanent. Yes, they never melt (not even in the summer). That means there are glaciers in the Himalayas - lots of them. Mount Everest is permanently covered in a layer of ice, topped with snow. The "top" of the mountain at which the elevation was measured can vary as much as twenty feet or more, depending on how much snow has fallen on its peak. Scientists believe that the actual tip of the rock lies tens of feet below the ice and snow on its summit. There are current plans to use ground penetrating radar to get a reading of the actual height of the mountain beneath all that snow. Although the Himalayan Range is only 1,550 miles/2480km long, the average height of all the major peaks in the Himalayas easily makes it the highest mountain range on land.
                                More than 4,000 climbers have since scaled the mountain and tourism, including climbing, is a key source of income for Nepal, among the world’s underdeveloped countries

Here are some pictures to enlarge your view :








Monday, December 27, 2010

Happy New year 2011

I would like to Wish all of you a warm and very special new year 2011.