Travelling to Nepal

This is a basic guide to travelling to Nepal and some of its local local enterprises. We talk about Rainbow Children Home Nepal which is an orphanage in nepal and offer opportunities for volunteering in Nepal, Rainbow Handicraft, a handicraft in nepal, which is a small scale industry established to give free handicraft skill development trainings to marginalized women in Nepal and produce hand woven handbags of cotton.

Then we also talk about Indreni Homestay a homestay in nepal providing unique opportunity of staying in an earthbag house in Nepal, Indreni Organic Farm, which is an organic farm in nepal also offering volunteer in farm in nepal.

Next we cover about trekking to nepal. First, ghorepani poonhill trek which is the first trek anybody should try. Secondly the presentation goes through poonhill blog, a community blog with news, useful information, faq and itineraries about trekking to Nepal.

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1. TRAVELLING TO NEPAL
2. Orphanage In Nepal  Rainbow Children Home Nepal is an orphanage in Nepal which was established in 2007 in Lakeside, Pokhara, Nepal.  There were 13 children when it began.  Rainbow Children Home Nepal also participated actively in relief activities during the Mega Earthquake in April 2015  Goganpani Health Centre was also reconstructed with the funds collected by Rainbow Children Home Nepal
3. Volunteer in Nepal  Rainbow Children Home Nepal also provides volunteering opportunities for voluntarists.  Accommodation and Fooding is provided in a homestay near the orphanage.  Volunteering can be life changing experience.  The duty starts at 8 until 10 when the children go to school. Your get a break until the children come back at 5.  Volunteer in Nepal is a great opportunity to travel with a cause
4. Handicraft in Nepal  Handicraft in Nepal has been one of the most important industry that is able to generate jobs for many lower and middle class people  It has played a vital role in the economic development of Women  Rainbow Handicraft was established in 2010 by Mrs Goma Dhakal so that she could help women get free handicraft skill development trainings and income generating opportunity  In 2019, there were 35 wome working for the Handicraft
5. Hand Woven Bags in Nepal  Rainbow Handicraft manufactures high quality bags from cotton  With a wide range of more than 250 designs invariable sizes, the hand woven bags in Nepal manufactured by Rainbow Handicraft are loved by visitors, volunteers, designers as everyday bags.  Rainbow Handicraft in Nepal stands not just as a enterprise but also as an enterprise that puts empowering the women as the main vision for operation of the organization.
6. Free Handicraft Skill Development Trainings  Rainbow Handicraft has been providing free handicraft skill development trainings to marginalized women in Nepal.  In addition, the organization also provides jobs to the trained women .  Until 2019, two hundred and fifty women have been trained by Rainbow Handicraft in Nepal.  Handicraft Trainings have been a sustainable income source for the women.  However due to declining exports, they haven’t been able to scale the organization.  In regional prison, Pokhara, 12 women have been trained and employed since the last 5 years. Many of them collected income, learned a new skill and began a new life thus ending the viscous loophole of poverty
7. Trekking in Nepal  Nepal with its unique geography has the Northen belt of ranges of majestic Himalayas of 8000m.  The Treai, is the southern belt which is a vast plain land just 70m above sea level.  The middle belt is the wide range of thousands of hike-able hills and mountains  Trekking in Nepal, trekking in the Himalayas and mountains is a much preferred activity for people from all around the world
8. Ghorepani Poonhill Trek  Ghorepani Poonhill is a very famous short Trekking Trail in the Annapurnas.  It takes only 2 days to summit a 3600m view point on the top of a famous hill called Poonhill. The surrounding area is called Ghorepani.  Ghorepani Poonhill Trek is one of the few treks that takes you right in the face of the mountains while the high Himalayas in front of you arise the horizon giving a splendid view of the Himalayas, 180 degrees around you
9. How were the Himalayas formed The Himalayas range runs from the East to West of Nepal in the northern range, also extending to other countries Find out in the article of the science of the tectonic plates that is the main reason how were the Himalayas formed Millions of years ago, all the continent of the world were together in a big landmass called Pangea
10. Homestay in Nepal  Indreni Homestay in Nepal provides you with a unique opportunity to experience living in an Earthbag House  An Earthbag House is a house constructed by mud only without the use of stones or concerete.  The homestay is located in Kaskikot Pame which is 10 km from the famous Lakeside of Pokhara.  Unlike the concrete houses, the Earth bag houses provide warmer room temperature, and are designed considering the best aeration and light  Surrounding area are very natural, spiritual with colossal rocks, hills and river stream, waterfalls and hikable destinations like Panchase, Fewa Lake and Kaskikot
11. Organic Farm in Nepal  Indreni Organic Farm is an organic farm in Kaskikot, Nepal  We are involved in different projects like goat meat production, buffalo milk production, vegetable production and agro forestry.  We also provide volunteer opportunities for staying at the farm.  We used permaculture design methodology to develop our farm.  Organic Farm in Nepal is being highly promoted by the Government and the international community are it is believed to be the industry to provide all raw material for other industries to help in the economic development of Nepal