Travel & Tourism
By Gyanendra Neupane
More and more women climbers are visiting Langtang National Park, according to Park figures.
They include both Nepali and foreign women, who are returning to the mountains for trekking, pilgrimage and mountaineering after Covid-19 cases started dropping.
On average 50 tourists turn up daily for trekking in the mountainous route of Rasuwa.
According to the Langtang National Park, inflow of women tourists has increased at Gosainkunda and Langtang areas for trekking.
Among 13,084 domestic and foreign tourists turned up to the district from mid-July to mid-October this year, 2,846 were women, the records revealed.
Out of the female tourists, 2,297 were domestic and 549 foreigners, informed Forest Technician of the Park, Nitendra Singh.
Trekkers reach Gosainkunda through Sundarijal-Helambu mountain trekking route and Dhunche-Chandanbari trekking route and thereby trek to Kyangjen of Langtan from Cholangpati through Thulosyafru.
According to the data, 11,758 Nepali and 1,326 foreigners had entered the park premises from mid-July to mid-October this year to enjoy the scenic beauty of the Park.
A total of 1,259 tourists from the United States, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Australia and others had entered the national park while the number of tourists from the SAARC region was only 67. -RSS
