October-November

This months are very favorable seasons for tourists in Nepal. In these months temperature is neither hot nor too cold. As rainy seasons had just finished, Sky becomes also clear and you can get beautiful view of mountains. To go to trekking, mountain flight, sun-set and sunrise; this season is very good. Tourists becomes maximum in this months. People of Tourism area become busy at this months.
From cultural point of view too, this season is fine. At this October-November months, Nepali's greatest festival Dashain and Tihar occur. As whole nation enjoy the festival, the situation becomes very enjoyable here. At Dashain, people get Tika & blessing from their elder one and people return home(from foreign countries too) in this festival. As a result village also become live. People generally buy new clothes in this festival. They go to temples to worship goddess.


In this months, tourists are increasing day by day. All the hotels are booked first. They are packed. People see many tourists in tourist places. Foreigners must visit Nepal in this month.

Nepal Tourism year-2011

Nepal is organizing Tourism year in 2011. For that Nepal is doing a heavy preparation for that. Different programs are organizing every week in Nepal to promote the Tourism Year in Nepal as well as in foreign countries. For the the Tourism year, Hotels have been increased for tourists to stay. Different physical structures have been made for the tourists. Nepal is targeting 1 million people in 2011. Different Touring & trekking routs have been increased. Different mountains are allowed to climb in 2011. Various packages have been offered for tourist for 2011. Hence the target of inviting 1 million to Nepal seems to be successful. About 90 days are left for Nepal Tourism year-2011 to start & tourists are increasing and books of Hotels are full. So We can be sure that Nepal Tourism year-2011 is gonna become huge success.

For tourists coming to Nepal in 2011, Nepal is training people the polite way to speak with them. As a developing country, tourism is major industry in Nepal. Tourism plays a vital role in Nepal's Economy and thus development of Nepal. It gives employment to many Nepalese. It increases sale of Nepali products. It recognizes Nepal to the world. It brings US currency to Nepal. Hence it plays vital role in developing Nepal's economy and Nepal too. Hence development of tourism sector is very important in Nepal.

Kumbheswor temple

It is one of oldest temple in Patan. After Patan Durbar Square, This is second popular place tourist would like to go in Patan. The Kumbheswor temple is pagoda style temple, made by King Jayasthiti Malla in the 13th century. It is a five storied temple. In Nepal, there are only two 5 storied temple. One is at Basantapur, named Nyatapol temple and second one is this.

Inside the temple area, there are many famous gods and goddess. Maa Bagalamukhi temple is one of them. It is very popular among the Hindus. Every Thursdays, lots of devotees visit this place to worship Bagalamukhi. It is believed that if you continuously reach here for 7 consecutive Thursdays and worship Bagalamukhi, your wish is fulfilled. So this place is very crowded on Thursdays from early morning to late night.

Once a year, there takes place a ritual bath in the pond inside the temple compound and the water source of the pond is believed to be glacier lake Gosaikunda, on the auspicious day of Janai Purnima. On the day there took place a huge mela.

Patan, City of artist

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Patan is famous for its famous arts and crafts. You can get variety of curio materials. It is famous for wooden craft, metal craft, handicraft goods, metal goods etc. It is a city of fine arts. The city is famous for its excellent artist. Some are world famous and one of them is Arniko. He was invited to China to build Pagoda Style Temples. He is a world class Architect.

Patan is also famous for its culture. For tourist, it is a cultural heritage. Whole year, you will find their different cultural events. Patan Durbar Square is main attraction of Patan. It is like a open museum for many. At this place, you will see many pagoda style temples. It is a world heritage place. Similarly Krishna Temple is very famous for its architecture. It is made of only stones.

In Patan, about 90% people are artist. Some are farmers and some are businessman. The city is quite famous for foreigners. You can see their different ancient monuments, ancient houses that make city central attraction for many.