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Nepal Opens Great Himalayan Trek
By KTM Metro Reporter
September 30, 2011: Nepal has officially opened the Great Himalayan Trek: one of the longest trekking routes in the world. "This is a completely new product and we hope that it will help boost the tourism industry," said Sharad Pradhan, a spokesman for the Nepal Tourism Board, "It will also help cement Nepal's reputation as the ultimate destination for adventure seekers. Adventure tourism, as a niche, is new to us but this is definitely an attractive package."
The Great Himalayan Trek is the 1,700-kilometre (1,050-mile) long and it passes through Mount Kanchenjunga of Taplejung in the eastern Nepal and Humla in the western Nepal bordering with Tibet. In fact, it is the east-west Nepal Himalayan Trek.
Anybody walking on this trek encounters a variety of Nepalese cultures: the Rai-Limbu culture of Eastern Nepal then the Buddhist Tamang culture of the central Nepal and finally the ancient Hindu culture of the far western Nepal.
Trekkers on this Himalayan Trek will need to walk for five months to complete it. However, anybody willing to break this trek could do so anywhere s/he likes.
