Pokhara, Nepal Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Despite its status as the cradle of the nation, GORKHA remains strangely untouristed, even though the 24-kilometre paved road up from Abu Khaireni makes it a relatively painless half-day's ride from Pokhara, Kathmandu or Chitwan, and the new Manakamana cable car takes most of the sweat out of hiking here. Conscious of its tourist potential, the government has spruced up Gorkha's main monuments, but the minuscule lower town remains a fairly ordinary roadhead bazaar, its workaday atmosphere only leavened by a handful of hotels. As the ancestral home of the Nepalese royal family, Gorkha occupies a … more »