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About
Nepal

Mount Everest (The Highest Mountain in the World)
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Nepal
is a small, independent, beautiful, and mountainous
country, situated in the continent of Asia between the
People’s Republic of China and India. It covers an
area of 147,181 Square kilometers with the population of
about 25 million.
Eight
out of the ten highest mountains in the world are
situated in Nepal; including the Mount Everest which is
8848 meters above the sea level is the highest point on
earth. |
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Large numbers of tourists visit Nepal to go climbing and
trekking the Himalayas to see and experience the natural
beauty and religious, historical culture of Nepal. Nepal
has a monsoon climate. The temperature varies from 0OC
to 45OC and rainfall 100cm to 350cm.
Being
a mountainous country there are many fast flowing rivers
and streams and Nepal has the second largest
potentiality of hydropower in the world. |
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Rafting in Nepal
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Trekkers in Nepal
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Tourism
is one of the main sources of income of Nepal, where the
facility of jungle safari, rafting, trekking and sight
seeing is abundantly available for the tourists
About 80% of the population live in remote rural
villages and farming is their main source of income. Due
to unemployment in the country, the Nepalese government
has granted approval to foreign employment maintaining
due process through the concerned agencies or
organization to provide necessary manpower to the
foreign country. |
Nepalese
young men are recruited into the British army and Indian army,
have earned good reputation by their honesty,
discipline and bravery and are famous as Gurkhas of Nepal |