Hot water spring in Bahundanda Fedi Lamjung

Hot water spring located in Bahundanda Fedi of Lamjung district is popular among the tourist trekking in Annapurna circuit.

tato pani at bahundada fedi_lamjung

It seems, there are a lot of small hot springs along Marsyangdi river that first runs north between the Annapurna and Manaslu. Falling along the Main Central Thrust, in the Marsyandi Valley, central Nepal, "waters are heated by the elevated geothermal gradient, and mix with deep-sourced carbon dioxide before degassing at the surface"

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Government official stationed in Dance Restaurant?

At around 9.30 pm on November 12, Riten Kharel saw this government vehicle parked in a dance restaurant "Bhanjyang Rodhi" at Gwarko and took this photo.

One can be pretty sure that the official who is assigned the vehicle shouldn’t be in his job related work at that time of night. Riten asks, ‘Isn’t it the misuse of a government property?" Government officials are free to visit any restaurant. But, do they need to use the government vehicle and spend government purchased gasoline for their personal gratification?

What do you think?

Does anybody know which office does the license plate belong to?

Photography Tutorial – The Deepesh Show (Episode 1)

Deepesh Shrestha teaches you how to take a great photo. In the first tutorial, Deepesh gives some basic tips on the composition of a photo. Some of the issues Deepesh covers in the video are:

  • Rule of third: photo composition, balance and movement of objects in the photo.
  • Golden ratio: composition of photograph in curve.
  • Rule of triangle: Subject should be in the three triangles on the lower portion.
  • Blurring the distractions: Focusing on subject of interest and simplifying the object.
  • Rule of odds: Odd number o
    f subjects makes a photo interesting.

Watch the video to understand the basics of photo composition:

CYSU youth clean up Bir Hospital

CYSU youth teamed up to clean the Bir Hospital area. Such a voluntary movement is expected to have a long term impact on creating social awareness and impart a feeling of responsibility in people. It is another proof that social media is the next revolution.

Nepal Army and Mountaineering Team volunteers also joined the group to clean up the area helping the volunteer count to reach 100.

Manish Thapa and CYSU Team, in a statement, had told that the effort also inspired the staffs of Bir Hospital to help in cleaning and the Bir Hospital Administration was also very cooperative.

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10K ‘Chapali Height’ posters destroyed

After the Binita Baral controversy over the publication some of her photos in various magazine covers, the producer of the movie, Arju Kumar, decided to destroy all the posters designed with the naked photos. About Rs. 250,000 was the cost of design, re-design, and printing of the destroyed posters.

(All the photos are removed from the post.)

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What a noble way to become fresh.. watching blue films

When you are stressed out, how do you become fresh? If you ask me, I would either stroll in a park… or listen to a sweet music… not the way model Etna Karki says how she becomes fresh.

The image above is taken from the ‘Shukrabar’ magazine cover. We haven’t read the article posted in page 21. But, the title “Blue film herera fresh hunchhu,” says a lot.

Some of the questions and answers (rough translation from Nepali):

Do you have experience of sex?

Yes of course… with my boyfriend.

Have you seen Blue film?

Yes I have seen. I was 17 years old at at that time. I was very excited after watching the movie. I do watch them occasionally and be fresh.

News from Nepal November, 2011 (consolidated)

Fire in Chitwan comes under control after 9 hrs

Nov 1, 2011 @ 12:41

The deadly fire, which was started at a food store room of Dantakali Pashupati Grocery of local Dinesh Rathi situated at Bharatpur Municipality-4, Ananda Marga, of Chitwan district on Monday midnight, came under control after nine hours, according to RSS.

The fire was taken under control with the help of two fire engines of Birgunj Sub-Metropolitan and one each from Hetauda and Bharatpur Municipality and local residents.

According to Chitwan District Police Office, the fire destroyed various foods including pulses, rice, oil, peas, gram and soybean worth of around Rs. 50 million. Houses of Rathi and his neighbor Raj Kumar Shrestha were also damaged.


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Anupama Aura Gurung – Miss Earth Nepal 2011

Anupama Aura Gurung is the first runner-up of Miss Nepal 2011. Anupama represents Nepal in Miss Earth 2011 to be held in Manila, Philippines on December 3, 2011. The beauty contest was supposed to be held in Thailand but a flood caused the event to be moved to Manila.

Anupama, a daughter of a Gorkha army in Singapore, lived there until she turned 21. Here are some bikini shots of Anupama.

Here are some of the bikini shots in Miss Earth:

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Himani Trust's Dance Party in Soltae Hotel

Himani Trust, an organization established in Himani Shah’s name organized a fund raising dance party in Soltae Hotel in Kathmandu on November 26, 2011. In the party, members of former royal family including ex-king Gynendra Shah and ex-queen Komal Shah also participated in the party.

The dance party started at 6 PM and lasted till midnight. The Trust had set an entry fee of Rs. 5,000 for an individual and Rs. 7,000 for a couple. The dance party organized by ex-royals in the 5-star hotel
had a strict dress code of black or red.

Miss Nepal Cake in Annapurna for Christmas

Yesterday, Sahana Bajracharya, in her Facebook profile, announced via a mobile device that she was “Cake mixing at Annapurna ;)”

That didn’t make sense to me at that time until I saw the following photo in Nagarik:

These Miss Nepal beauties are mixing cake ingredients to prepare a cake for upcoming Christmas. It’s not December yet but, Miss Nepal cake is almost ready. Mixed by the top beauties of Nepal including Miss Nepal 2011, Malina Joshi, Miss Nepal 2010, Sadichha Shrestha, and Miss Nepal 2010 runner-up Sahana Bajracharya have already initiated a grand welcome cake for the international festival. Salina Maskey had helped them to mix dry fruits, wine and various other ingredients. (photo credits Nagarik)

It is told that the cake will be offered for sale by mid December in Hotel Annapurna.

Kalpana Gurung- Miss Tamu-2011

Kalpana Gurung, 21, became the winner of Miss Tamu-2011 title organized in Pokhara on Friday night. The beauty contest was organized by Tamu Student Committee.

Anuja Gurung became first runner up and Sushma Gurung became second runner up. Kalpana also won the title of Best Title and received cash prize of Rs 1,00,000 from Bindheshori Furniture and opportunity of being Brand Ambassador for one year. Similarly, Anuja received Rs 25,000 cash prize.

Sushma also won the title of ‘Photogenic’.  ‘Miss Talent’ title won by Bina Tamu and “Viewers’ choice” by Laxmi Gurung.

Syangja Nuwakot and Kaal Bhairav Temple, a popular tourist destination

Nuwakot in Syangja is one of the historical and religious tourist destination in Western Nepal.

Before the expansion of Gurkha Kingdom (or, unification of modern Nepal) by Prithivi Narayan Shaha, 24 se feudal Sen King used to rule the region. The wall seen in the photo below is believed to be part of a palace in that time.

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Binita Baral shed crocodile tears – publicity stunt over magazine cover

Chapali Height actress Binita Baral has shed some crocodile tears in a press meet organized in Kathmandu. The meet was held in response to the publication of a photo on the cover of Shukrabar weekly and Kamana monthly.

By the way Binita has responded to the incident, we can say that it was a pre-planned incident and was meant to be a publicity stunt rather than an unexpected event.

Just after the publication of a photo on Kamana monthly, Shukrabar published similar but different photo. The photo was provided by the producer of the movie, Arjun Kumar, to the media.

A few things to prove Binita tried to make fool of the people:

  • She had agreed to publish the photo in film poster. She has nothing a
    gainst the photo as such. Publication on magazine cover – is no issue at all.
  • She told she had a piece of garment to cover her chest. Does anybody care if she had anything over there or not? She showed some photos in press meet and they didn’t prove anything.
  • Binita’s tone of message after the press meet – “I told you all I have to say. Now, go on and publish whatever you like!”