Pokhara Lekhnath (Nepali: पोखरा
लेखनाथ) is a city and
the biggest city of Nepal regarding zone. It is the common capital of Province
number 4, headquarter of Gandaki Zone and Kaski District. It is found 200
kilometers (120 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu. Involving a territory of
464.24 km2, it is nine times bigger than Kathmandu, 18 times bigger than
Lalitpur and 2.5 times bigger than Bharatpur.The elevation shifts from 827
meters (2,713 feet) in the southern part to 1,740 meters (5,710 feet) in the
north.[1] The Annapurna Range with three of the ten most noteworthy mountains
on the planet — Dhaulagiri, Annapurna I and Manaslu — is inside 15 – 35 miles
of the valley.[2][3] Due to its nearness to the Annapurna mountain extend, the
city is a base for trekkers undertaking the Annapurna Circuit through the
Annapurna Conservation Area region[4] of the Annapurna runs in the Himalayas.
Phewa Lake in Pokhara. Sailing at Phewa Lake is one of the
famous visitor exercises.
Pokhara Lekhnath is home to numerous Gurkha warriors and
Anita. It is the most costly city in the nation, with a typical cost for basic
items list of 150,[clarification needed] and the most costly place in Nepal
after Namche Bazaar. Regarding populace, and is frequently alluded to as the
tourism capital of Nepal.
Geography
Pokhara is in the northwestern corner of the Pokhara
Valley,[5] which is an enlarging of the Seti Gandaki valley that lies in the
midland district (Pahad) of the Himalayas. In this locale the mountains rise
exceptionally quickly,[6] and inside 30 kilometers (19 miles), the rise ascends
from 1,000 to 7,500 meters (3,300 to 24,600 feet). Because of this sharp ascent
in height the territory of Pokhara has one of the most elevated precipitation
rates in the nation (3,350 mm/year or 131 inches/year in the valley to 5600
mm/year or 222 inches/year in Lumle).[7] Even inside the city there is a recognizable
distinction in precipitation between the south and the north: The northern part
at the foothills of the mountains encounters a relatively higher measure of
precipitation.
The Seti Gandaki is the primary waterway coursing through
the city.[8] The Seti Gandaki (White River) and its tributaries have made a few
chasms and gulches in and around Pokhara that give intriguingly long segments
of porch components to the city and encompassing ranges. These long areas of
porches are hindered by gorges that are many meters deep.[9] The Seti glut goes
through Pokhara from north to south and after that west to east; at places
these canyons are just a couple of meters wide. In the north and south, the
gorge are wider.[10]
In the south, the city outskirts Phewa Tal (4.4 km2) at a
height of around 827 meters (2,713 feet) above ocean level, while Lumle at
1,740 meters (5,710 feet) in the north touches the base of the Annapurna
mountain extend. Pokhara, the city of lakes, is the second biggest city of
Nepal after Kathmandu. Three 8,000-meter (26,000-foot) tops (Dhaulagiri,
Annapurna, Manaslu) can be seen from the city.[11] The Machhapuchchhre
(Fishtail) with a height of 6,993 meters (22,943 feet) is the nearest to the
city.[12]
The permeable underground of the Pokhara valley supports the
development of caverns and a few hollows can be found inside city limits. In
the south of the city, a tributary of the Seti streaming out of the Phewa Lake
vanishes at Patale Chhango (पाताले
छाँगो, Nepali for
Hell's Falls, additionally called Davis Falls, after somebody who as far as
anyone knows fell in) into an underground crevasse, to return 500 meters (1,600
feet) assist south.[13][14] To the southeast of Pokhara is the region of
Lekhnath, an as of late settled town in the Pokhara valley, home to Begnas
Lake.[15]
Climate
The city has a muggy subtropical atmosphere; in any case,
the height keeps temperatures direct. Temperatures in summer normal in the
vicinity of 25 and 35 °C; in winter around - 2 to 15 °C. Pokhara and adjacent
regions get a high measure of precipitation. Lumle, 25 miles from Pokhara
downtown area, gets the most astounding measure of precipitation (> 5600
mm/year or 222 inches/year) in the country.[16] Snowfall is not seen in the
valley, but rather encompassing slopes encounter periodic snowfall in the
winter. Summers are moist and gentle; most precipitation happens amid the storm
season (July - September). Winter and spring skies are for the most part clear
and sunny.[17] The most noteworthy temperature at any point recorded in Pokhara
was 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) on 4 May 2013, while the least temperature at any point
recorded was 0.5 °C (32.9 °F) on 13 January 2012 .[18]
History
Phewa lake in 1982
Pokhara lies on an essential old exchanging course amongst
China and India. In the seventeenth century it was a piece of the Kingdom of
Kaski which was one of the Chaubise Rajya (24 Kingdoms of Nepal, चौबिसे राज्य) managed by a branch
of the Shah Dynasty. A number of the slopes around Pokhara still have medieval
remains from this time. In 1786 Prithvi Narayan Shah included Pokhara into his
kingdom. It had by then turn into a vital exchanging place on the courses from
Kathmandu to Jumla and from India to Tibet.[20]
Pokhara was imagined as a business focus by the King of
Kaski in the mid eighteenth century A.D.[21] when Newars of Bhaktapur relocated
to Pokhara, after being welcomed by the lord, and settled close fundamental
business areas, for example, Bindhyabasini sanctuary, Nalakomukh and Bhairab
Tole. The greater part of Pokhara, at the time, was to a great extent occupied
by Khas[22] (Brahmin, Chhetri, Thakuri and Dalits), the real groups were
situated in Parsyang, Malepatan, Pardi and Harichowk zones of current Pokhara
and the Majhi people group close to the Phewa Lake.[23] The foundation of a
British enlistment camp conveyed bigger Magar and Gurung people group to
Pokhara.[24] At exhibit the Khas, Gurung (Tamu) and Magar shape the
overwhelming group of Pokhara. There is likewise a sizeable Newari populace in
the city.[25] A little Muslim people group is situated on eastern edges of
Pokhara for the most part called Miya Patan. Batulechaur in the most distant
north of Pokhara is home to the Gandharvas or Gaaineys (the tribe of the
musicians).[26]
The adjacent slope towns around Pokhara are a blended group
of Khas and Gurung.[27] Small Magar people group are likewise present generally
in the southern distant slopes. Newar people group is nearly non-existent in
the towns of remote slopes outside the Pokhara city limits.
From 1959 to 1962 around 300,000 outcasts entered Nepal from
neighboring Tibet following its addition by China. The vast majority of the
Tibetan outcasts at that point looked for refuge in Dharamshala and other
Tibetan outcast groups in India. As indicated by UNHCR, since 1989, roughly
2500 Tibetans cross the outskirt into Nepal each year,[28] a considerable lot
of whom touch base in Pokhara regularly as a travel to Tibetan outcast groups
in India. Around 50,000 - 60,000 Tibetan outcasts live in Nepal, and roughly
20,000 of the banished Tibetans live in one of the 12 merged camps, 8 in
Kathmandu and 4 in and around Pokhara. The four Tibetan settlements in Pokhara
are Jampaling, Paljorling, Tashi Ling, and Tashi Palkhel. These camps have
developed into well-manufactured settlements, each with a gompa (Buddhist
cloister), chorten and its specific engineering, and Tibetans have turned into
a noticeable minority in the city.[29]
Until the point when the finish of the 1960s the town was
just available by foot and it was viewed as significantly more a magical place
than Kathmandu. The primary street was finished in 1968 (Siddhartha
Highway)[30] after which tourism set in and the city developed rapidly.[31] The
range along the Phewa lake, called Lake Side, has formed into one of the
significant tourism center points of Nepal.[32]
Sanctuaries and Gumbas
There are various sanctuaries and gumbas in and around
pokhara valley. Numerous sanctuaries fill in as joined spots of love for Hindus
and Buddhists.[33][34] Some of the well known sanctuaries and gumbas are:
Tal Barahi Temple (situated on the island amidst Phewa Lake)
Bindhyabasini Temple
Sitaladevi Temple
Gupteswor Mahadev Gufa/Temple
Mudula Karki Kulayan Mandir
Sunpadeli Temple(Kaseri)
Bhadrakali Temple
Kumari Temple
Akalaa Temple
Kedareshwar Mahadev Mani Temple
Matepani Gumba
World peace pagoda
Akaladevi Temple
Religious community (Hemja)
Nepal Christiya Ramghat Church, set up in 1952 (2009 BS), in
Ramghat region of Pokhara is additionally the primary church in Nepal.[35]
Tourism and economy
Perspective of Phewa lake and Pokhara from Shanti Stupa
Universal Mountain Museum at Ratopahiro, Pokhara
Mount Machapuchare (Mt. Fishtail) seen from Chomrong, Kaski,
Nepal. Elevation:6,993 meters (22,943 feet), prominence:1,233 meters (4,045
feet)
View from Sarangkot towards Annapurna Conservation Area
After the control of Tibet by China in 1950 and the
Indo-China war in 1962, the old exchanging course to India from Tibet through
Pokhara ended up noticeably dead. Today just a couple of processions from
Mustang land in Bagar.
In late decades, Pokhara has turned into a noteworthy
traveler goal: It is viewed as the tourism capital of Nepal[46] in South Asia
primarily for experience tourism and the base for the well known Annapurna
Circuit trek. Consequently, a noteworthy commitment to the nearby economy
originates from the tourism and accommodations industry. Numerous sightseers
visit Pokhara. Tourism is a noteworthy wellspring of pay for nearby individuals
and the city.[47] There are two 5-star inns and around 305 different lodgings
that incorporates five 3-star, fifteen 2-star and non-star inns in the
city.[48]
Numerous medieval time sanctuaries (Barahi sanctuary,
Bindhyabasini, Bhadrakali, Talbarahi, Guheshwori, Sitaldevi, Gita mandir
sanctuary, Bhimsen sanctuary) and old Newari houses are a piece of the city
(Bagar, Bindhyabasini, Bhadrakali, Bhairab Tol, and so on.). The present day
business downtown areas are at Chipledhunga, New Road, Prithvi Chowk and
Mahendrapul (as of late renamed as Bhimsen Chowk).
