Mahabaudha Temple Of Patan

The temple of thousands Buddha is about ten-minute walk from south of durbar square. It is slightly out of the way and you can have to ask directions as it is located in a courtyard surrounded by buildings and not easily visible despite its height originally constructed in 14th century, the terracotta, the Indian style was severely damaged in 1934 earthquake and later rebuild. Each of the bricks in the building contains an image of Buddha. Inside there is a shrine dedicated to Maya Devi, the mother of Buddha. It is said that this temple is similar to one in Boudhagaya where Buddha was enlighten. You can climb the buildings around the courtyard to photograph the temple and obtain a fine view over the rooftops of Patan.

Search Engine Marketing In Travel Business

I have found there are so many hotels and restaurants and lodges and lots of travel and vacation rentals related websites that do belong to Nepal, but sadly if you search in Google or any other search engine site, you will never find the list of such websites at the top list. It means that the owners of the businessperson of such companies and websites do not have the proper idea of search engine optimization and search engine marketing.

Simply reading a post about search engine optimization and marketing is never enough to know about it and use it for your site or the company. It takes lots of hard work and research for search engine optimization and marketing. You might say it is not difficult; you can just invest through Google AdWords, Yahoo search, and other paid search channels. Well that is where people mostly go wrong. You need to have better specialist in managing your campaign as well. Mostly there is lots of experienced individual webmasters out there whom you can hire, but I am sure it will cost you more. Well you need not worry because I have something for those who are in need. I have found a company which has a website called USWeb.com which helps any business companies with its search engine optimization and marketing strategies and they claim their service is the most cost effective ones. Either it is a big company or the small ones, USWeb is the best search engine marketing firm for all.

Hotel Reservations With Heavy Discount Worldwide

I have been searching a lot about hotel reservations, management of flights, cars, motels, vacation rentals, vacation packages, and lots more throughout the internet and if I find anything best, I will be surely writing the review over here. So once again hotelreservations.com has made me blog about their website today. I just would like to be in my homepage where everybody would know the benefits if you want any travel related bookings of the site as I think they have the best offers so far.

Hotel Reservations basically is the site which covers everything when it comes to traveling around the world. If you are on their website, you will the beauty of their work and how user-friendly their website is. They have got lots of facilities and they have searched the best and cheapest hotels available in the world in their database. They claim that we can save up to 70% by using their services to book our reservations. We can call free to make our reservation through their tool free numbers if you are around USA or Canada and they are open 24 hours and 7 days a week. Now they also have toll free service in Europe that is valid in UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Switzerland, and Australia. They also have a worldwide number available, (1) 817-333-5105. Their website has the provision of finding us the perfect hotel for us in the area we desire. They have searching tools which allows us to search the hotels by either address, or amenities, or zip codes and if we cannot find the city or discount hotel we can always call their toll free numbers stated above for more information. If you have trouble finding the exact destination of your vacation or have trouble finding the exact location for vacation and you if you need to research and plan your trip, you can always use the company’s own City Guide .

So I think after reading this post, you will definite know what I have been trying to express. HotelReservations.com is the complete package when you need to book or design or plan your trip anywhere around the world.

Some Useful Nepali Words

Usual Words

English	Nepali
How much?	Kati
Less	Kum
Where?	Kata?
OK	Theek
Thank you	Dhanyabad
More	Badhi
Little bit	Alikati
That’s enough	Pugyo
I do not have	Chaina
Good, pretty	Ramro
Here	Yaha
There	Tyaha
Give me	Malai dinos
Today	Aaja
Yesterday	Hijo
Tomorrow	Voli
Stamp	Ticket or stamp
Envelope	Kham
Money	Paisa

On the trail:

Way, trail	Bato
Bridge	Pool
Descent	Oralo
Ascent	Ukalo
Left	Baya
Right	Daya
Cold	Jado
Wait a minute	Ek chin parkhanos
I like this	Malai yo ramro lagyo
I do not like this	Malai yo ramro lagena
Where is the market?	Bazaar kata parcha?
Where is the road to ______?	______ jane bato kata parcha?
I do not feel good	Malai sancho chaina
Is there a village nearby?	Najikai gaun parcha?
Where is the porter?	Bhariya kata gayo?
Please give me tea	Kripaya malai chiya dinos
I want to sleep	Malai sutna mann lagyo

Languages In Nepal

Over the past few decades, the literacy of Nepali people have reached to quite good level. Though the village areas are yet to have literacy awareness programs and most of them are still below the literacy level, the urban areas have over 90% of the people literate. Since the schools have English as a compulsory subject, most of the Nepalese people do tend to speak the universal language in Nepal.

The national language of Nepal is Nepali language, often called Nepalese language. The grammar of the Nepali language is quite similar to the Sanskrit language. The Nepali language is not so hard to learn but it is too difficult to master as well. I guess this happens to most of the languages in the world. Nepal has lots of ethnic groups and most of the Nepalese ethnic groups speak their own language. The Kathmandu Valley has been ruled by Newars and the basic natives are Newari people who speak Nepal Bhasa language often called Newari language. The other distinct languages are spoken by the Gurungs, Magars, Rais, Limbus, Tamangs, and Sherpas. In the Teria, Hindi and Maithili are widely spoken and understood.

If you are a tourist, and although learning a few words of Nepal is a good idea and widely appreciated, there is one word every visitor should learn – “Namaste.” This universal Nepalese greeting translates literally as “I salute all divine qualities in you: but it is used as “hello, how are you, pleased to meet you, see you again” and generally a nice thing to say.

Blister Prevention For Hikers And Trekkers

Lots of tourists come to Nepal every year around. The main reason behind it is mainly trekking and hiking in the beautiful Himalayas and the breathtaking scenario of the hills we have in Nepal. This has become some kind of a sports these days where it includes a lot of walking. When it comes to walking, there comes a painful foot problem. I am talking about the blisters you have due to excessive walking. Well we have lots of antiseptics but we never seem to have the prevention for it.

Today I just found a site which deals with Blister Prevention. I thought this might help all the trekkers and hikers and all the sports lovers who have blister problem, so I thought I writing this post about Blister Prevention. From Minneapolis, MN, a company called Tamarack Habilitation Technologies, Inc. has manufactured ENGO® Blister Prevention Patches. They have been absolutely phenomenal over the past and have gained a popularity in terms of blisters and its prevention. Their product has effectiveness at preventing blisters and relieving blister pain, ease of use, price, and a variety of other characteristics. That’s why they their ENGO® patches have been awarded the National Health & Wellness Club (NHWC) Seal of Approval. So I suggest if you too are having blister problems be sure to have their blister prevention patches. Visit goengo.com for more information about how to get your patches.

Indrajatra 2007 Begins

There are lots of festivals happening around the year for the Hindu people in Nepal. It seems like everyday there is a festival in the name of some gods. I don’t know may be that I am from Newar group I feel as we have most of the feasts going on than any other tribes. But today, 24th of September, 2007, has a special importance if you are in Kathmandu. From a week before you will start Newari people going on for their music band practice. Lots of masked features, namely Lakhes, are out to brighten up the festival which is going to start today. It is called Indrajatra, where Indra means Lord of Heaven and jatra means festival, who is worshipped as God of Rain.

The fields have been planted with crops, the monsoon is in the ending process, and the season for harvesting is coming up. This is the beginning of the best season of the year, which lasts for two months. So this is the time when people worship the god of rain, Indra.

Today is considered as the first day of Indrajatra. The big wooden log which was brought from Sallaghari, Bhaktapur, is installed in front of the Kaal Bhairab at Hanuman Dhoka Durbar Square today. This symbolize that the festival, Indrajatra, is in the air. This wooden log is called Yashi in Newari language. The beginning and the end of the Indrajatra is symbolized by this wooden log. The installment symbolizes the beginning and after the festival it is put down and dragged into the Bagmati river, which symbolizes the end of the festival. The place at Hanuman Dhoka Durbar Square today is crowded with people who watch the installment of the log on that place. The log stands upright till the festival is in the air.

Gaura

I haven’t heard of this festival as of yet but it is in existence. It’s called Gaura. It is celebrated right after Biswokarma Puja. I read in one of the old magazines about it. I tried to find it out but was unable to find much detail. I only got out some parts of the magazines which I am trying to review today. Nepal really has various customs and tradition as it is a place where lots of groups and castes of people live in. So there are so many numerous amounts of festivals that it seems quite difficult to get all account of.

Speaking of Gaura festival, as written in the magazine, it is one of the most important Hindu festivals celebrated in the far western region of Nepal. It is observed by married women, and the ceremonies extend from the fifth to the eighth day of the bright lunar fortnight also called Astami in Nepali. During the festival, the women worship various deities and make ritual offerings to those deities. Devotees pay homage to Lord Shiva and his consort Parvati and seek their blessings.

Become A Recognized Beautician

This post is dedicated to all those beautiful people out there and for those who love to be a beautician. Lots of my friends here in Kathmandu, Nepal are beautician. Well it has been a trend here for girls to learn about the beautician courses. I don’t know if the beauty schools where they studied would provide a standard beautician courses or if my friends are really a qualified and perfectly trained beautician, but I definitely know if they would have joined Regency Beauty Institute they would turned out to be a recognized graduates with a demand in the salons for sure. Why am I telling this? It is because I visited regencybeauty.com and read all the detailed information about the institute that has been founded over more than 50 years ago in Minneapolis which has now expanded from two Minnesota schools in 2002 to almost 30 campuses across nine states, with continued growth underway for next year. One beautiful thing is Regency has a growing network of campuses and placement relationships. This makes the graduates from Regency have placement from salons to cruise ships and runways throughout the United States.

Biswokarma Puja

In Hinduism, Biswokarma God is considered to be the god which possess all the craftsmanship and provides us the blessing of being a good and perfect craftsmanship. As you might have known that in Hinduism, there are 330,000,000 gods and everyone has a different values and respect and blessings to offer. So there is a day for each deity when they are worshipped and given special attention. The seventh day of the bright lunar fortnight is considered as the day for Biswokarma God. According to Gregorian calendar, it is celebrated on 18th of September this year (2007).

Mostly people living in terai seems to celebrate this occasion more often than the people in hilly or Himalayan region. The people will just gather around to the statue of the Lord Biswokarma which they have made over the past and they would just sing and dance throughout the day. At end of the festival the statue is put down on the river which indicates the end of the festival. Mostly the Indians and terai people seem to make the statue of gods and then at the end of the festival they put down the statue in the river in most of the festivals.

Chatha (Ganesh Chaturthi)

Another festival celebrated right before Rishipanchami is Ganesh Charturthi (chaturthi means the fourth day of the bright lunar fortnight). This year it was celebrated on 15th of September, 2007. The Hindu people worship Lord Ganesh this day. The newar of Kathmandu valley called it Chatha (meaning same as chaturthi in nepali – fourth day of the bright lunar fortnight). It is celebrated hugely in our neighbor country India as well. Devotees pay homage to Lord Ganesh at various temples of Ganesh.

In Kathmandu, there is one special tradition that is carried out this day. The seed of the pear eaten couple of months ago is preserved for this day. The seed is called bakshyapati in Nepali. It is worshipped as Lord Ganesh, as it has appearance of Ganesh (Ganesh has head of an elephant). So after the worshipping. The seed is crushed and inside another edible seed is taken out and it is eaten after it is fried as the form of prashad (offerings eaten by the devotees in the name of god in form of blessings) from Lord Ganesh.

Vacationing in Florida

I have heard a lot of beautiful things about Florida that I just can’t help write about Florida and the facilities that we can get if we are there. I mostly do a lot of research and go through different websites about vacation rentals, selection of hotels, car rentals, flight arrangements, and other travel related issues. I guess it comes with the job of blogging that I am mostly surfing the net and looking for different cool sites and cool services and products to review.

So this time my love for Florida again made me go Orlando.com. They are one of the best promising website that provides the most affordable prices and has lots of selection of lots of different travel and vacation arrangements in Orlando area. I personally like florida vacation rental in their website. They also have a lot of hotels listed, with car rentals, flight reservations, and other travel and vacation arrangements mainly in Orlando Florida Area. Orlando.com is a travel guide offering tips on entertainment, places to dine, how to enjoy the nightlife, and lots more.

Optional Extension Tour Of Bhaktapur (Bhadgaon)

I thought of excluding these tours but lots of my friends told me to include these parts of Bhaktapur as well as these places to have importance and I am sure anyone who are in Bhaktapur would never want to miss these places. So here is the review with the time span that is needed for visiting those places.

Extension Tour A:
Starting point: Durbar Square (30 minutes)
Take a small lane off Durbar Square to your right passing by typical to-day activities, continue until this lane bisects the main road. As you swing towards the left, you will pass the potters’ area where much of the activity – molding, baking, etc., - takes place in the street. Finally, passing by Talaku Math you will reach Taumadhi Square.

Extension Tour B:
Starting point: Dattatriya Square (45 minutes)
Continue through Dattatriya Square taking Bagiswori Lane. Pass Brahmayani Dyoche, Wakupati Narayan Temple, then the Navdurga Temple – traditional home of the Durga dancers, to Kwathaundau Pokhari, Kwathaundau Math, and as you approach the other entrance to Dattatriya Square, the Salan Ganesh Temple.

Extension Tour C:
Starting point Dattatriya Square (20 minutes)
Near the entrance to Dattatriya Square, as you enter, there is a lane off to your left. Following it, you will pass the Yachhe Ganesh Temple, Salan Ganesh Pokhari with Yache Ganesh Dyoche then Naag Pokhari, which will bring you to the main street near the Sukuldhoka Math.

A Perfect Tour of Bhaktapur (Bhadgaon)

I just found a page in my old magazine where they have maintained a plan of tour around Bhaktapur, formerly known as Bhadgaon, in a single page. I was thinking of writing a whole post about Bhaktapur, but was unsure if one post was enough for the whole tour. So this magazine will definitely help me to share the knowledge and guide my readers to Bhaktapur in just a single post to read.

Total time: 1.5 hours.
Starting point: Durbar Square

The “Golden Gate,” one of the Valley’s most extraordinary architectural masterpieces, built in 1754.

National Art Gallery houses Nepal’s finest collection of paintings also attached to it, exhibition of wood and stone carvings.

Palace of the 55 Windows, the former royal home of the Malla Kings has uniquely carved and decorated windows.

Temples:
Pashupati
Batsala
Radha
Krishna
Buddhist Vihar


Second stop: Taumadhi Square

Nyataola Temple built by King Bhuptindra in 1708 and dedicated to the tantric deity, Shiddhi Laxmi.

Bhairab Temple, three stories set on a rectangular base.

Narayan Temple with its beautiful carvings.

Aisamari Satal, this reconstructed building will house a modern restaurant catering to tourists.


Third stop: Sukaldhoka Square
This is one of the main local shopping areas where you can observe the daily life of the people.

Sukul dhoka Math in terms of wood carving and courtyard decoration is one of the most important Maths in Bhadgaon.


Fourth stop: Golmadhi Square

Golmadhi Hiti, a traditional stone tap.

Golmadhi Square has many examples of Newari architecture. Here too, you’ll find the hand-weaving center of Bhadgaon.


Fifth and Last stop: Dattatriya Square

Temples:
Dattatriya, a three-storied Rama-Shiva-Vishnu trinity temple built originally during the reign of Yaksha Malla in 1427.
Bhimsen Temple
Laxmi Narayan Temple
Pujahari Math with its beautifully carved peacock windows, now the office of the Baktapur Development Project.
Chikampa Math

Jangham Patti.

Taja Math, planned handicraft center.

Chikampha Math, 2nd floor exhibition hall.

Pujahari Math, 2nd floor will house a woodcarving museum.

Karisma Hotel

Since my childhood, I don’t eat much food, may be because I am very choosy in terms of having foods. Well my mom says so. If it is a delicious one, I would have some and if I don’t like the taste of the food, I would just leave the food and never touch it again. She used to say, you should have to live in a hotel in order to have the foods you want, and you can get everything in hotel too, so go there in live in. I used to think, why not? (Well I haven’t told that to mom as I didn’t want to have another scolding from her).

Well now I am a grown up and I just remember my mom again as I saw this same kind of hotel she was talking about, Karisma Hotel. The name of the hotel came up with the Greek meaning, “divine favor.” As my mom said, if I was to live in a hotel, this would be the one I would stay. It has everything a person can desire and they have lots of collection of resorts and it offers new Gourmet-Inclusive concept, designed especially for foodies. The Karisma really offers a luxurious life and it has five signature resorts, including El Dorado Royale Spa Resort (adults only), El Dorado Seaside Suites (adults only), Azul Beach (family-friendly) and Azul Blue (family-friendly – opening November 2006), and Hidden Beach Resort (naturalist). So Karisma Hotels is a collection of all these resorts on white-sand beaches on the Mexican Rivera Maya, the perfect hotel where one could have luxurious life and delicious foods to cook and eat.

Rishi Panchami 2007

Two days after Teej (16th of September) is considered the last day of the fasting. The day is called Rishi Panchami where Rishi means holy person and Panchami meaning fifth which means fifth day of the new moon or month. The day after Teej, women only eat salt once a day in a meal. Then the next day is Rishi Panchami, where women once again go for fasting. Mainly the married women come to Lord Rishikeshwor Mahadev near Teku to worship another form of Lord Shiva. The place is just 10-15 walk from my house. A long queue is formed from the early morning. This day is very important for the ladies who went on fasting on Teej as today is the last and final day of their fasting and after this day they will be having a regular diet.

Personally, I don’t like women doing fasting, especially who have problems with their health. These days, lots of women do faint on the queue or even at their homes due to this extensive fasting. Television and radios and other Medias have now been making aware to the women and asking them not to participate in those sorts of fasting activities where their health would get hampered. If there is no health how can they pray for their husband’s life? I still wonder why would people do these sorts of crazy things and end up in the hospital bed every year. I mostly blame the husbands who give permission to their wives to do such kind of act. I hope in future women and men will take consideration to this matter and not take part in any such harmful rituals and keep their body and health as their priority.

Teej 2007

Teej is one of the most important festival for women in Nepal. It carries a lot of importance and devotion of woman who celebrate this festival. The main attraction of this festival are dancing, folk songs, and mostly the red color of women’s wedding saris. This festival is often considered as Hindu festival of womanhood.

There is a history behind this festival. This day recalls the heavenly occasion when Parvati, daughter of the Himalaya, won the hand of Lord Shiva after severe meditation and fasting. So the woman believe that if they fast on this day and pray for the desired husband, they will get it with the grace of Lord Shiva and the women who are married believe if they do the fasting it will make their husband live longer.

The day before the teej, mothers send gifts of food and saris to their daughters’ houses. Groups of women gather together to celebrate and feast. The day is called Darr Khane Din (the eating day). So this day the women eat lots of delicious foods and prepare for the fasting next day. At midnight, the women begin a fast in emulation of Parvati. Lots of women don’t even drink water and fast for their husband and future husbands. Lots of women go to Pashupatinath temple to pray to Lord Shiva. The married ones pray and ask for a happy and productive marriage and a long life of their husbands, and those yet to tie the nuptial knot ask for a good husband as goddess Parvati did. The fasting ends by having water and food from the husbands the next day of the married women and non-married have it by their own. This year Teej was celebrated and 14th of September.

Treasure Your Money

Have you ever thought of preserving your money as a treasure? Yeah! I mean preserving it in the form of rare coins such as gold, silver, platinum bullion, and other bullion coins. A lot of people have been in this business of trading such rare coins these days. We can find lots of coin dealers as well.

It is hard to trust the people or company trading coins online for sure, but I have a name of a company that has high reputation in this business and has been a trusted leader in precious metals investments for nearly 40 years, and they have helped tens of thousands of investors to invest over $25 billion in hard asset investments for the varieties of rare coins. They are known as Monaco. They stand behind their recommendations, market information, quality selection, and service. We also have a free trial subscription to have the valuable insights into their market. With Monaco you can have two-way buy and sell being in the same marketplace. So if you are thinking of trading coins and looking for online trading company, I recommend Monaco as a reputed and trustful coin dealer.

End of Gunla 2007

The day after Gokarna Aunsi (father’s day) is marked as the end of the Gunla for the year. This year it was on 12th of September. I was so busy with my own world and work that this year, I couldn’t be in Swayambhu for the first time in my life. Throughout my years, I have loved going to Swayambhu, and Gunla is the main festival where lots of people go to Swayambhu throughout the month. It is such a shame that I couldn’t manage a single day to visit Swayambhu this year. I had made plans for more than three to four times but due to my tight schedule; I just couldn’t go there this year. I had never thought that I would miss going there this year.

On the last day, a huge crowd will be gathered in Swayambhu throughout the day. Lots of people visit and pay their respect to goddess Harati Ma on this day and the days throughout the months. Throughout the month, lots of people will go there with their own musical bands with full devotion to the deity. Since this is the last day, most of the people will visit the place and you see the Swayambhu hill covered with people from a long distance today. You will see devotees coming and going from the hills throughout the way of Swayambhu. The crowd is just overwhelming and something different to experience. Too bad, I miss it this year. Well I cannot do anything then regret it and hope and pray that I wont miss it next year.

Gokarna Aunsi 2007 – Father’s Day In Nepal

Gokarna Aunsi is the father’s day celebrated in Nepal. Gokarna is a place nearby the Valley and Aunsi means dark moon. This year it was celebrated on 11th of September. We have a special way of celebrating this day. Sons and daughters offer ritual food, sweetmeats, and other gifts to their fathers. The streets are a happy scene of married daughters with loads of goodies making their way to their parent’s houses. Another scenario is the shops selling lots of sweet products. The shopkeeper extends their shops and display varieties of sweet products that sons and daughters offer to their father today.

The father’s day is performed by offering the gifts, and then sons and daughters adore their fathers by bowing to touch their feet with their foreheads. The ceremony is also known as “looking uopon father’s face” in our own language. Those whose fathers are no more mark the day by visiting Gokarna and other sacred spots and worshipping to the deities. There they perform anniversary rituals (sharadhya) in honor of their departed fathers and offer alms of rice, pulses, and coints to the priests and beggars as well.

Buying Your Radiator Online

I don’t own a car yet but I surely would love to have one in future. I don’t know if my wildest dreams would ever come true or not but as they say, we shall keep on dreaming. It is the least thing we can do when nothing seems possible. Well that is my philosophy I guess. As it is proven that lots of guys are interested in cars and there are lots of sites sharing the reviews about cars. I had come across lots of those selling firsthand and used cars but I never have heard of online radiator selling site. Well till now. The site I am talking about is Radiator.com.

As I read, I came to know that radiator.com is the leading online source for radiators and cooling components. They offer the best quality radiators with the reasonable price. Honda Radiator would be the best choice for me as I know that Honda have a reputation in manufacturing engines. Radiator.com offers a super fast service as well as they have provision of delivering your radiator on your doorsteps the very next day your purchase one, well if you are around US as the company is based in US. So now with their website online, we can easily cut out the middleman and we can have their high quality product with a reasonable price in our hands the next day of order.

Krishnastami 2007

In Hinduism, there are lots of them. Hard to believe but truth is that it is considered that there are 33 koti devata (330.000,000 Gods). According to the religion, every god has their own importance and have contributed something to the human being in someway. Most of the gods have their special day when they are specially worshipped. Lord Krishna, the dark god who taught warrior Ajuna the value of Karma in the Bhagwad Gita, was born at midnight on the eighth day of the dark moon of August (28th August this year). So that day is Lord Krishna’s day hence also called Janmastami (where Janma means birth and Astami means 8th day of the month).

The Krishna’s birthday is celebrated with lots of love and devotion by the devotees. Flocks of devotes gather around the Krishna Mandir at Patan Durbar Square on the preceding day. Krishna Mandir of Patan is a monument and was build on 17th century. So the men and women from gather around and sit in the vigil waiting for the midnight hour. Euphoric prayers and incantations fill the air, and small oil lamps are lit as a mark of felicitation and devotion to the deity. The Krishna Mandir will be full of devotees throughout the day where we can find lots of flocks coming and going on paying their respects and homage to the deity. Throughout the Kathmandu Valley, images of Lord Krishna are shown. Some of the images are carried around the city in the procession accompanied by joyous crowds of followers and musical bands.

Dhapasi

I have never been to Dhapasi before. I know it lies outside the Ring Road. So I think it is considered outside the valley, but I am quite unsure about it. One of my dearest friends, Jenisha, had once sent me an email explaining about Dhapasi. It was a gift for me from her to post in this blog of mine. According to her, this article was written to me by one of her friends. I will surely visit the place once and I will write my own review and write my own experience as well. But for the time being, here is what she had written about Dhapasi:

Even with a lot of new buildings being built everywhere, Dhapasi still remains popular for its private planned settlement areas. It owes that to a simple fact that Dhapasi is simply a prettier place to live in than other places like Baneshwor. Except the areas around the ring road, the inner parts are quiet, clean and green ideal for private settlements. These planning areas like, Dhapasi Heights, Shivapuri Planning etc also boost examples of beautiful architecture. The roads are so clean and quiet that it almost feels like Europe at times. Also there is a brand new housing area, Subha Homes, which is quite far from the noise of the city area and has beautiful houses.

With such exclusive places like Hotel Sahansha, Nature Club, Dhapasi is quite a happening place for the fitness buffs. One of the most useful benefits of living in Dhapasi is that it is quite near to one of the well-equipped hospitals, the Teaching Hospital of TU. Even the New Bus Park is quite nearby. Though the place is not much of a commercial centre, with places like Easy Mart, and British Gorkha Shopping Centre nearby people don’t need to go long way to do their shopping. There are so many places in Dhapasi where you can actually sit alone and watch the sun set, and seriously how many places are there where you can actually do that!

Reducing Weight via Surgery

Excessive eating has been a problem for obese people. With all the festivals and holiday and vacations, often people tend to eat a lot of junk food and start gaining weight. Obesity often leads to depression and more can welcome more diseases in our body system. So one should have diet control, mostly over the holidays, festivals, and vacations.

Well it is easy to say but if you are a “food freak” you won’t be able to control your eating habits. No matter what, you will find a way to have something to eat. No exercise programs or other fitness programs will help you unless you control your urge for eating. Well you need not worry now. Medical science has developed a procedure where you can control your hunger and reduce obesity problems. JourneyLite.com has developed a new way to reduce weight which specializes in laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding called LAGB or Lap band system procedure. What happens in this procedure is the highly skilled and experienced bariatric surgeons and a team of healthcare professionals work on to insert an inflatable adjustable gastric band through laparoscopic incisions and then positions the band around the upper part of the stomach. This creates a small stomach pouch and passageway to the lower abdomen. After completion of the procedure, you feel full and satisfied while you actually eat less and this helps you to lose excess weight. Don’t worry about the complication of the surgery as it is just a small surgery performed in an outpatient basis, meaning the recovery period is too short and you can go home after the surgery.

Gwaramari – My Breakfast

I don’t usually have heavy breakfast. Well not these days. While in my childhood, I used to have one pound of bread and a cup of tea and run to the school, and that would be my breakfast. For lunch, I would have Wai Wai (Nepal-made noodles) or may be biscuits, or Russian Bread (that’s what my dad calls it. It is made with egg, sugar, and pieces of bread, deeply fried in ghee). Well now all my schedules have changed. Nowadays, I have our Newari food item called Gwaramari. Gwaramari consists of two words, Gwara and mari where gwara means round shaped and mari means bread in Newari. It is made up of flour mixed with some baking powder (soda) and salt and then deeply fried in oil. The taste is just so awesome. It is best when you eat it when it is hot.

Early in the morning, my dad goes out for shopping and getting milk and other breakfast stuffs. For me, he usually brings gwaramari, as he knows I like it as my breakfast. Usually I am online at that time, and some of my friends are just dying to have some gwaramari but they can’t have it as it is not available in their area. Mostly Newari people bake it inside the Kathmandu Valley. Mostly Samir and Manik seems to be crazy for gwaramari as well but since it is not available at their area, they always keep on missing the taste. Lucky me, that I can have it daily, and it is available in lots of places around my house. Someday, I might invite them for gwaramari. The best gwaramari I ever tasted is from Bijeshwori. If anyone should come to Nepal, be sure to go for morning walk to Swayambhu, and nearby in the place called Bijeshwori, you will see one small restaurant where you will clearly see some people cooking gwaramari outside the restaurant. Be sure to have those gwaramari and experience the taste of it that you will never forget.

Nagarkot

Nagarkot is considered as a mini-trek promising a rewarding sunrise view of Mt. Everest and the Eastern Himalayan Range. The journey would basically include local transport to Bhaktapur and from there it is a three to four hours walk up to a place which is called Nagarkot. Accommodations and restaurant are easily available there, as it has been a popular place and lots of tourists as well as different groups of local people also visit the place quite often. On early mornings, before sunrise, you should wake up and make about 150 feet climb to the hillcrest from where you will experience a breathtaking and spectacular view as the morning sun rises, and one by one the mountain peak aglow with the spread that beautiful view you’d never forget.

Well that is what most people experience. I myself haven’t visited the place but I will be there some time for the New Year’s sunrise. Though the place will be crowded with lots of other visitors, I am sure with the heart and passion of viewing the beautiful sunrise, a dawn of New Year, it shall definitely be a worthwhile moment of my life. Till then, my journey to Nagarkot is still pending in my list.

Flat Screen Televiion By Krillion

I always have hard time watching my television. Well to tell you the truth, I don’t have a television. Puzzled? Don’t be. I have an external TV card attached to my computer through which I get my television in the monitor of my computer. So every time I want to watch the television, I would have to just switch the monitor of my computer as television screen, which really disturbs and it interferes my work. So I thought of buying one television and also wanted it to be LCD to protect my eyes.

As usual, I prefer buying things in internet rather than going on the market and have the headache of bargaining and getting ripped off by the shopkeepers who has different prices in different shops. So I just went on browsing the net and found lots of sites who had a wide variety of flat screen televisions. The catchiest site was Krillion.com, and instantly, I had my eye on one of the products there, hitachi 42 LCD. When it comes to comprehensive product, pricing, and right location to buy flat screen TV, Krillion.com is the site to be in. It has a searching process which has the best and most accurate local search results provided to you in an instant.

Dan's Peek At Life

Some of you might be wondering about this post I am going to write as it doesn’t much concern about the travel issues. Here is what I have to say. AloneInKathmandu.com is also a blog but it is mostly related to Travel and Hotels and basically I have tried to include all the things about Nepal and the culture and festivals of Nepal. Keeping that in mind, I do have respect to other fellow bloggers out there who are blogging with their heart. So I thought of writing something about them. So amongst many of those good blogs, I chose Dan’s Peek At Life today.

Dan has included lots of posts regarding wide varieties of categories. Although this blog is a new one, it already includes lots of posts and all the posts seems to be quite interesting and has a lot of helpful tips in them. I would personally recommend to view all his previous articles written in his blog. The blog also covers some posts about Travel as you can see the category “Travel” listed in his blog. I am sure that the other fellow bloggers will have a great help if you visit his site, as he has written a blog post concerning new bloggers. He has written top tips for new blog owners which will just boost up and give the new bloggers idea about the blogging world and what sort of things is essential when you are starting a new blog. I surely enjoyed reading his blog, and I am sure you guys will have a quality time and gain some knowledge visiting this blog.

Spy Review

AloneInKathmandu.com mostly deals with the places in Nepal, and recently I have included cool and fascinating products that can help you if you are in a vacation out of town or country in someway. In the process of searching the cool devices, I came through a site called Spy Review. The website is just too good to be true. I found all the latest gadgets (only seen in movies) listed in that site.

I just began to imagine about those cool products like spy camera and spy phone and lots of other gadgets that has been reviewed on that website. Just imagine having your spy camera running in your room to have your own security and no one knowing that you are monitoring the activities happening in your room. I know I might sound crazy but after you visit this site, you will know that feeling I am having right now. Yes, the site makes you go crazy, in a good way, as you will be seeing all those spy gadgets that you can actually get for you own use and experience the spy life anywhere you are. And yeah, this website has provided some links of amazon.co.uk that actually has lots of spy books which you can buy and the price seems reasonable too. Check it out and experience and imagine the spy life as I did.

Buy Lists From Martin Worldwide

I had been reading a lot about mailing list. So now I have some idea about it and how it help our business boost up. I thought this might help out the hotel owners and other travel agencies as well. So I am trying to describe something about mailing list and how to get or buy lists for your company.

Throughout the search for the best company that has the best reputation, I came across Martin Worldwide. It is considered as one of the largest and most successful mailing list providers in the world. It is hard to believe that Martin Worldwide possesses a database of over 290 million consumers and 14 million U.S. businesses and it is the only major list provider that guarantee of its data integrity in writing. It offers customized mailing lists, telemarketing lists, and fax lists for the small business and Fortune 1000 clients. Don’t worry about the price as they have decades of experience and they provide a variety of cost-effective services. This is only the a part of benefit you will get, to learn more you should definitely visit their website and get updated about their mailing list and learn how it can