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Where to visit in Nepal?

Posted in: Blog on August 10th, 2010 | Comments: none

If you are going walking or trekking in Nepal you may choose to mingle with other people like you or may decide you want to get away from it all, and get off the beaten trail. But where is busy and where is quiet?

Recently some guys in Estonia came up with a map-overlay which shows where people actually visit in Nepal – well, at least those who use the Panoramio website to upload their trekking photographs. Touristiness is a word that is probably not in the dictionary yet but this is what they have called their map – the Touristiness Index.

On the map below you can see that in Nepal, tourism is focused around Annapurna, Kathmandu, Langtang and Everest. There are some other hotspots around urban centres such as Butwal and Dharan, but this shows you roughly where the beaten trail is! Notice the gaps from left to right, from East to West: Far West; Humla; Jumla, Mugu & Rara; Dolpa. Then there is Manaslu and Ganesh Himal in between Annapurna and Langtang. Towards the far east is Makalu and Kanchenjunga which remain places receiving few explorers.

On the western-most border, you can see a pink line in India – perhaps this reflect the numbers of Indian pilgrims heading to My. Kailash (red dot at the top a few centimetres from the left corner). You can also see the route to Kailash from Simikot in Humla.