Gurung Tourism Entrepreneurs’ Association, Nepal (GTEAN) going to go more remote aria Relief distribution for the Earthquake victims.
Read more...Dhadhing home town- 10 years old, Miss Rashmi Gurung (daughter of Mr Hom Bahadur Gurung) who is under treatment of Brain- Tumor. She has gone through a successful operation 3 weeks ago at Bir Hospital, kathmandu. And now she is waiting for another major operation on her head again.
Gurung Tourism Entrepreneurs' Association, Nepal (GTEAN) has handed her Rs 81,000 for her further treatment.
(yet another helping hand for another needy people) We wish her a speedy recovery.
Gurung Tourism Entrepreneurs’ Association, Nepal (GTEAN) took food to a very remote village in Dandagaon on 6 may 2015. Not only did members collect the donate. But they also did the delivery which was not easy test.
Nine members went to this remote village in the Rasuwa district which was flattened by the April 25th earthquake. The villager have been living with no shelter and limited food for 11 days. Because of their remote location, there had been no help or aid brought to the people of Dandagaon village.
This remote village is 3 hrs walk one way from there they could drive their delivery vehicle to. Each of the nine members then put large lord on their bakes and carried it up into the mountain. Each of the villager got package of rice, along with salt, sugar and large box of noodle.
Dandagaon village is composed of mix caste of mountain people. Their primary income is agriculture on terraced farms in the mountain.
GTEA is composed of business people from the Gurung community who are involved in tourism.
The aim of Visit Lumbini Year 2o12 is to attract 1 million visitors. Organizing a tourism year back to back presents a unique challenge for Nepal’s tourism officials and I want to offer my suggestions to hold a successful Visit Lumbini Year 2012. To make this year’s tourism campaign a success, I believe we need to take a holistic approach and strategically promote Lumbini. The feat of this campaign will not only depend on planning and advertising by the tourism officials but also on the wholehearted support from the government as well as the citizens.
Lumbini is the traditional birthplace of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, who was born in the 7th or 6th century BC. According to Buddhist tradition, Maya Devi (or Mayadevi) gave birth to the Buddha on her way to her parent's home in Devadaha in the month of May in the year 642 BC. Feeling the onset of labor pains, she grabbed hold of the branches of a shade tree and gave birth to Siddharta Gautama, the future Buddha. The Buddha is said to have announced, "This is my final rebirth" as he entered the world.
Buddhist tradition also has it that he walked immediately after his birth and took seven steps, under each of which a lotus flower bloomed. In 249 BC, the Buddhist convert Emperor Ashoka visited Lumbini and constructed four stupas and a stone pillar. Ashoka's Pillar bears an inscription that translates as: "King Piyadasi (Ashoka), beloved of devas, in the 20 year of the coronation, himself made a royal visit, Buddha Sakyamuni having been born here, a stone railing was built and a stone pillar erected to the Bhagavan ["blessed one"] having been born here. Lumbini village was taxed reduced and entitled to the eight part (only)".
One more Nepali mountain has made it to the list of eight-thousander list if a study by Chinese scientists is anything to go by. A study carried out by Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences puts Annapurna East (8,013m) in the elite group of mountains. Two more mountains – Mount Center (8,011m) along the borders between China and Kashmir and Mount West Shishapangma (8,008m) in Tibet – have also made it to the eight-thousander list, according to the study. The new additions mean the number of mountains exceeding 8,000 meters has reached 17.
According to Xinhua, Chinese scientists have completed mapping out all the 17 mountains with the height of more than 8,000 meters above the sea level. They are expected to publish their findings in a book "World Eight-thousander Snow Mountain Atlas" soon. The atlas, which includes seven 1:100000 maps, will be published both in Chinese and English. It will provide theoretical evidence to the glacier research and give detailed mapping materials to the mountaineers, said Mi Desheng, researcher at the institute.
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