Pokhara
Pokhara is a sub-metropolitan and the second one largest town of Nepal in addition to the headquarters of kaski district, gandaki zone and the western development location. it's miles positioned 2 hundred km west of the capital kathmandu. notwithstanding being a comparatively smaller valley than kathmandu, its geography varies dramatically within simply few kilometres from north to south. the altitude varies from 827 m in the southern element to 1740 m within the north.moreover, the annapurna variety with 3 out of the ten highest mountains inside the international — dhaulagiri, annapurna i and manaslu — are within about 15 – 35 miles as-the-crow-flies distance from the valley.due to its proximity to the annapurna mountain range, the metropolis is likewise a base for trekkers challenge the annapurna circuit via the acap area of the annapurna levels in the himalayas.
Phewa lake in Pokhara. Boating at phewa lake is one of the popular activities one does who go for visit.
Pokhara is home to many Gurkha soldiers. It is the most expensive city in the country, with a Cost of Living Index of 95, and the second most expensive place in Nepal after Namche Bazaar.It is the most beautiful and clean city in the whole country.
Geography
Pokhara is in the northwestern corner of the Pokhara Valley, which is a widening of the Seti Gandaki valley that lies in the midland region (Pahad) of the Himalayas. In this region the mountains rise very quickly,[8] and within 30 km, the elevation rises from 1,000 m to over 7,500 m. As a result of this sharp rise in altitude the area of Pokhara has one of the highest precipitation rates in the country (3,350 mm/year or 131 inches/year in the valley to 5600 mm/year or 222 inches/year in Lumle). Even within the city there is a noticeable difference in rainfall between the south and the north: The northern part at the foothills of the mountains experiences a proportionally higher amount of precipitation.
The Seti Gandaki is the main river flowing through the city. The Seti Gandaki (White River) and its tributaries have created several gorges and canyons in and around Pokhara that gives intriguingly long sections of terrace features to the city and surrounding areas. These long sections of terraces are interrupted by gorges that are hundreds of meters deep.The Seti gorge runs through Pokhara from north to south and then west to east; at places these gorges are only a few metres wide. In the north and south, the canyons are wider.
In the south, the city borders Phewa Tal (4.4 km2) at an elevation of about 827 m above sea level and Lumle at 1,740 m in the north of the touches the base of the Annapurna mountain range. Pokhara, the city of lakes, is the second largest city of Nepal after Kathmandu. Three 8,000-meter peaks (Dhaulagiri, Annapurna, Manaslu) can be seen from the city.The Machhapuchhre (Fishtail) with an elevation of 6,993 m is the closest to the city.
The porous underground of the Pokhara valley favours the formation of caves and several caves can be found in the city limits. In the south of the city, a tributary of the Seti flowing out of the Phewa Lake disappears at Patale Chhango, Nepali for Hell's Falls, also called Davis Falls, after someone who supposedly fell in) into an underground gorge, to reappear 500 metres further south.To the southeast of Pokhara is the municipality of Lekhnath, a recently established town in the Pokhara valley, home to Begnas Lake.
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