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Tibet re opened to
the tourist.
The autonomous region of china,
Tibet is situated in the north of Nepal.
This was closed to the tourist in June and
July because of China is going to celebrate
the 90th university. The Chinese people
(Tibetan people) don’t want any political
disturbance while that time so they have
declared to close to the travelers. After
two month’s close it is reopen now. Now
tourist can go to Tibet from Nepal or from
China. Tibet tour is a complete guided tour.
Tourist would like to go to Tibet to see the
roof of the world and Himalayan peaks from
closer including Mt. Everest. While
traveling to Tibet the road goes above
5200m. Further the Tibetan Buddhism, people,
culture and tradition are interesting. The
tour from Kathmandu to Lhasa almost drive
over 400. The traveler must aware about the
mountain sickness. The maximum elevation is
5200m in Gyatu- La pass. After you will
arrive in Sigatse and visit Tashilunpo
Monastery. This is the Panchen lamas
monastery who is a second lama in Tibetan
Buddhism. You will continue via Gyantse to
Lhasa. You will visit Potala palace the
Dalai Lama’s palace, Jokhang temple, Barkhor
bazaar, Sera and Drepung monastery. This is
a wonderful and memorable tour in life time.
US Honors Nepali
Women for Heroic Act
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
on Monday honoured Nepali anti-trafficking
hero, Charimaya Tamang, with the 2011 Hero
Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award.
Tamang was honoured during the release of
2011 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at
the State Department in Washington.
Born into a poor family, made poorer by the
death of her father, Charimaya was 16 years
old when she was trafficked to India.
She spent 22 months in a brothel before the
Indian government rescued her along with
over 200 other Nepali women in 1996. Upon
her return to Nepal, Tamang was ostracised
by her community.
However, she filed a case against her
traffickers, becoming the first person to
file personally a trafficking case at the
district police. In 1997, the District
Court—in a landmark decision—convicted and
sentenced eight offenders involved in her
case.
Later in 2000, Tamang and 15 other survivors
established Shakti Samuha, an
anti-trafficking NGO.
In that role, Tamang raised the importance
of including survivors in each
district-level working group.
There are now five trafficking survivors
serving as members at the district-level
committees around the country. Releasing the
report, Secretary of State Clinton
recognized ten TIP Heroes from around the
world for their efforts in combating human
trafficking.
Stating that Nepal has improved anti-human
trafficking efforts despite limited
resources, the report pointed out the need
to fully comply with the minimum standards
for the elimination of trafficking.
“While the Government of Nepal established
the Central Crime Investigation Bureau’s
special unit to investigate trafficking and
increased its direct financial support for
protection services in Nepal and abroad, the
lack of proactive victim identification was
cited in the report as a persistent serious
problem,” read a statement released by the
US Embassy here.
The report recommended that the government
improve anti-trafficking efforts. The
recommendations include increased law
enforcement against all kinds of
trafficking, establishment of a formal
procedure to identify victims and promotion
of legal awareness programme among potential
victims and government officials.
The US government has been supporting
various initiatives to combat human
trafficking in Nepal.
These initiatives, among others, include a
five-year project funded by USAID to
strengthen protection services for TIP
survivors, capacity building of the
judiciary and law enforcement agencies and
awareness programmes among groups that are
vulnerable to sex and labor trafficking.
Posted on: 2011-06-29 08:47
Five Missing in
Trishuli as Ropeway Snaps
Five persons went missing in the Trishuli
river on Monday when the aerial tramway they
were travelling on snapped in Ghyalchowk
VDC-9 in Gorkha district.
Police said Ranjeet Gaire, Mishra Shrestha,
Ram Kumar Shrestha, Amritlal Shreshta and
Riju Silwal were swept away by the Trishuli
in the accident. Five others survived the
incident. A search operation was underway
until late in the evening.
Suraj Khadka, one of the survivors, said the
accident happened when one of the pillars
holding the cable split in the middle of the
haul, causing the cable to sag and dunking
the tram in the river numerous times. “When
the tram emerged out of the water after the
first drop and plunged again, five of the
passengers fell off.
Soon they were swept away by the current,”
Khadka said.
The aerial tramway was built more than 40
years ago by the Chinese government,
originally to ferry construction materials
for Prithvi Highway. Later, the tram was
used to carry passengers. Depsite the risks
involved, as many as 14 people used to cross
the river on the tram at a time.
The tramway has not undergone any repair
work in the past 18 years. Local people said
they had requested the authorities concerned
to repair the tramway and build a bridge
over Trishuli many a times in the past, but
in vain. After the accident, the local
people obstructed Prithvi Highway for three
hours in protest.
The protest was called off after the Chief
District Officer Mohan Prasad Wagle assured
the locals that a bridge would
be constructed over the river this year.
(Source The Kathmandu Post 28 June 2011)
Japanese Women Who
Get Lost....
KATHMANDU, June 9 (Xinhua) -- A Japanese
woman who got lost in mountainous area of
northern Nepal for the past 13 days
confessed that she will not repeat such a
stupidity again.
A 49-years old Makiko Iwafuchi went missing
on May 25 from northern hilly District
Rasuwa, 60 km north of capital Kathmandu,
and was found on June 7 with the help of
local potters.
Iwafuchi, who had been trekking in Nepal for
a long time, said, "I would like to trek
again but I'm not going to repeat same
stupidity again."
Iwafuchi was trekking alone without trekking
guide in Gosaikunda that lies in Nepal's
Langtang National Park area at an altitude
of 4,380 meters.
According to her, she had traveled many
parts of Nepal, specially she had trek
Annapurna Base Camp, Langtang, Annapurna
Circuit, Everest Base Camp, among others.
"Though my friends in capital suggested me
not to trek alone and pick trekking guide, I
thought I had trek enough and this time I
can do it myself, which was my mistake," she
said.
Health clinic for
tourist at TIA
Norvic International Hospital has set up a
health clinic at Tribhuvan International
Airport (TIA) targeting foreign passengers.
Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation
Khadga Bahadur Bishwakarma inaugurated the
clinic amid a function on June 5.
The hospital opened the clinic after the
government requested it to set up the clinic
at the country´s only international airport.
According to the hospital, all the services
provided through the clinic will be free of
cost. It will also provide free ambulance
service to patients if needed.
The hospital is deploying a doctor, a nurse
and a health assistant at the post from 7 am
till 11 pm..
Four Nepali Women
Scale Annapurna IV
HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
POKHARA: Four Nepali women scaled Annapurna
IV (7,525 m), the riskiest peak for
mountaineering in the country, for the first
time at 5:15 am today, setting a historical
record.
According to Lucky Karki, executive
coordinator of Nepali Women’s Annapurna
Mountaineering Campaign -2011, Manu Gurung
(24) of Manang, Shantikala Rai (29) and Nima
Rai (30) of Solukhumbu and Saraswoti BK (27)
of Pokhara-6 kept the record as the first
Nepali women to climb the peak.
Karki informed that the 11-member team had
returned safely though an avalanche had
disturbed them while they were returning
from
the peak.
The four women had left for the adventure on
May 5.
The team had succeeded in scaling the peak
only at the second attempt.
They had returned to the base camp from
6,800 metres on May 22 due to unfavorable
weather condition. They had again initiated
the adventure on May 27.
The women had already climbed Tent Peak
(5,900 m) in 2008 and Chulu West (6,419 m)
in 2009.
They had received training on advanced rock
climbing and ice climbing in Poland and
Italy in 2010. They had also received
additional training on rock-climbing from
renowned Dutch trainer Harry Brandal in
January this year.
According to the organiser, nearly Rs 2.7
million was spent on the expedition.
Apa rewrites record
with 21st Everest summit
Record breaking Nepali mountaineer Apa
Sherpa reached the summit of Mt Everest for
the record 21 times on the morning of 11
May.
Apa, who is leading an environmental
expedition, took advantage of good weather
to reach the 8,848- meter summit with a
group of other climbers. Tilak Pandey, an
officer of Ministry of Tourism and Civil
Aviation stationed at the base camp,
confirmed the summit.
The 50-year-old Sherpa first reached the
summit of the tallest peak on earth in 1989
and repeated the feat almost every year.
Apa’s expedition plans to bring around 4
tons of garbage from the lower part of the
mountain and
another one ton from near the summit.
TIMS (Trekkers Information Management
System) in new provision
The cabinet meeting of Nepal government held
recently has changed some provisions related
to Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS).
The new changes will come into effect from
March 15.
As per the new provision, trekkers are
required to take TIMS Card from Trekking
Agencies' Association of Nepal (TAAN) and
Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) before starting
their trek. Trekkers traveling in groups can
get the TIMS card upon paying a fee of
Nepali currency equivalent to US $10 each
while those preferring to travel
individually (FITs) need to pay Nepali
currency equivalent to $20.
However, mountaineers with climbing permits
from Tourism Industry Division under
Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation and
Nepal Mountaineering Association aren't
required to get the TIMS Card. Similarly,
trekkers with permits from Immigration
Department to controlled areas like Upper
Mustang, Upper Dolpo, Mansulu and others
also are not required to get the TIMS Card.
Likewise, members of diplomatic missions are
not requires to get TIMS Card. |
