Kathmandu. 250 internal and external tourists who had gone on a tour of the Kanchenjunga region have stopped on the way. Due to the cyclone ‘Arnab’ developed in the Bay of Bengal, the tourists were stopped after the weather in the Himalayan region was unfavorable.
Due to the snowfall in the higher areas and the rain in the lower areas, the tourists who were going to the base camp and returning were unable to reach their destination and had to stop at the hotels and settlements on the way. The hotels in the slums are full of tourists.
According to Rajiv Limbu, a photojournalist who went on a tour to Kanchenjunga base camp, all the hotels in Ghunsa area are full of domestic and foreign tourists. His team had to stop there for two days.
Giriraj Baskota, a journalist from Panchthar, who is on a tour, informed that even the hotels along the footpath are full of tourists. It is raining heavily in that area. It is getting colder and it is snowing in the high mountains.
The number of tourists has increased in the settlements along the footpath leading to the northern base camp of Kanchenjunga including Italitatar, Lamatar, Amjilesa, Thangim, Gybla, Phale, Ghunsa, Khambachen and Lonak and the hotels located in Yamfudin, Naya Zhoreni, Torongden, Seram and Ramje on the southern base camp.
A group of foreign tourists going to Makalu base camp via Lumbasumba stopped at Olangchungola. According to tourism operator Hemraj Niraula, who is with the team of Saraf Foundation, who has reached the historical Dikichyorling Monastery in Phattanglung Rural Municipality-7, Olangchungola for study and research, around 60 local and foreign tourists are currently in Olangchungola. They are staying in hotels there.
Local administration request not to walk in Manaslu area
District Administration Office Gorkha has requested all concerned not to walk in Manaslu area for the next three days. On Friday and Saturday, the local administration has banned hiking on the grounds that there is a high risk of heavy snowfall, blizzards and avalanches in the highlands and Himalayan areas.
“Pedestrians who have obtained permission to hike in any prohibited area in the high hills and Himalayas are requested not to hike during that period and if they have gone on a hike, stay in a safe place,” said the statement issued by the district administration office.
In addition, the administration has also requested that the representatives of all concerned bodies including trekking agencies, hikers and guides inform the subordinate tourists. Rasas