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Nepal is known as ‘the abode of snow’ and the land of ‘the ever-smiling faces’.

It is a small landlocked country that borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China in the North, and by India to the South, East and West. With an area of just 147,181 sq. kilometres, Nepal has a population of just under 2,000,000.

Steeped in a culture frozen in time, Nepal is a place where religion is a way of life, and there are as many temples as houses, and more festivals than days in a year. With Hindu temples and Buddhist shrines seemingly scattered across the land in what was until recently, still a kingdom; it is a melting pot of Hinduism and Buddhism. This is the original and only official Hindu Kingdom of the World; the home of Kumari the living goddess, and the birthplace of Buddha, the Light of Asia.

The topography of Nepal is unrivalled which creates a rich bio-diversity of flora and fauna.

From the icy peaks of the Himalayas in the North, boasting  eight  of the World’s highest peaks out of 14 over 8000 metres, including ‘Sagarmatha – goddess of the sky’ or as it is better known in the West – Mount Everest. The landscape runs down through the lush green tea gardens, lakes, paddy fields, to the steamy, golden mustard fields of the valleys and the thick sub-tropical jungles of the Terai – with the abundance of outstanding National Parks with their rare and exotic animals: the Bengal tiger, one horned rhinoceros, elephants, sloth bears and mugger crocs.

Kathmandu is the capital, known as ‘the city of temples and chiming bells.’

Nepal is one of the top tourist destinations in the world.