A little more about the Nepal Tour

Each delegate will have a confidential consultation with Dr. Koirala who is a highly qualified Ayurvedic doctor and doctor of medicine.  He will decide exactly what your treatment schedule will be and your sessions will be arranged accordingly

The treatments will include combinations of the following:
abhyanga (full body massage), facial massage (with ghee and herbs), ubtan (coating and massaging the body with a coarse paste), steam-baths, shirodhara (warm oil poured onto the forehead and through the hair), pichu (hot herbal compresses), herbal baths and chakra basti (chakra cleansing - dough-balls placed over the chakra points into which warm oil is poured).
These treatments are authentic and personalised and can be dramatically effective.

After the treatments there is time to visit wonderful temples and shrines in the Kathmandu valley and to browse through the exciting local bazaars.

Kathmandu is very rich in culture and one of the highlights is the visit to Bodhnath, the Tibetan village and Stupa, where you will see, among many other interesting sights, the Tibetan Monks prostrating themselves and turning their prayer wheels.

This is a magical place - difficult to describe - as you will experience for yourselves. Bodhnath, a World Heritage site and a spiritual home for Buddhists and many make the pilgrimage from other countries to circle the Stupa and pray. On the Full Moon night of Janal Purnima (August –September) the Temple is decorated with flags and lit with thousands of small lamps. Inside there is a small light and it is customary to keep this light burning all year. If by any chance it goes out a fresh light from a huge temple on the other side of Kathmandu, called Swayambunath, must be brought and the light lit again.

There will also be an opportunity to visit the burning ghats and temples at Pashupatinath - an extraordinary experience for a Westerner.

When we arrive in Kathmandu we take an hour’s ride to the Fort Hotel high up in the foothills of Nepal in order to marvel at the Himalayas and to acclimatize to the country whilst also recovering from the flight. After 2 nights we descend to the Valley and begin our discovery of 1 of the 3 ancient cities of the Valley. We spend a night in Bhaktapur in a hotel situated right in the square of the Nyatapola, the world’s highest pagoda. This town is renowned for its exquisite art and architecture and centuries old palaces and monuments. It is a vibrant city and its inhabitants continue to thrive in the practice of their age-old traditions. Here we have dinner with the wife of the famous Boris Lissanevitch, Inger, who will be more than happy to recall her days, spanning 50 years, of her life in Nepal.

Foreign Office advice at present is for only essential travel to Nepal. A tour is scheduled for 2008.