Last week Nepal One Tours & Travels hosted a group
tour package for 13 Malaysians tourist travelling in Nepal for our standard 6
Night 7 Days travels. In this post we would like to share the experience of
hosting them about their first travel experience in Nepal here.
The group were of two family with two couple of age of
early 50 with theirs children of 9 on their from 16 to 25 in which two of them
were girls and 7 were boys. The younger ones were travelling Nepal with their
cousins group and their Parents. They actually visited most of the world
heritage sites in Kathmandu valley including the biggest Mosque the Jame Masjid
of Capital. Since their arrival they were travelling in a Toyota Jumbo Hiace
Van which was very suitable for their group size.
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| Ready to go for a rafting trip in Trishuli river in Nepal. |
On the first day they just landed in Tribhuvan
International Airport and transferred directly to their Hotel in Thamel as
their arrival was at late evening. The next day they had a guided sightseeing
tour to the World heritage sites on Kathmandu. They came from a humid and hot
temperature of Kuala Lumpur and I experienced that they were enjoying the
little chilling climate Kathmandu with wearing the winter outfit as they do not
get to wear the winter clothes in their home town. The durbar squares of
Kathmandu and the temples and the market around the durbar square were
something very new for them and they seemed to take photos everywhere and
everything they could see on the tour. Some of them were very curious to know
about the places and happenings around the Kathmandu.
Next morning they had a mountain flight by a Simrik air
for 1 hour and they were very lucky to get a very nice weather with very little
cloud. They enjoyed the experience of flying close to the White Mountains and
the Mt. Everest. They also enjoyed to take pictures in the cockpit with pilot
which was beyond their expectation and told us that, entering in the cockpit of
a flying plane is not possible in their country.
After the flight they returned to hotel for breakfast and
check out for the trip to Pokhara and on the way camping and rafting in the
Trishuli River. As they told that they are the adventures lovers and done
rafting in Malaysia for couple times the experience of rafting was not a new
one like the Mountain Flight. When they arrived the rafting spot and they got
the briefing from the river guide about the rafting trip and safety measures
they got their rafting gears and were looked exciting to get their group pictures
with the rafting boat and gears. They did the 3 hours rafting in Trishuli River.
All of the younger ones were not into a simple rafting trip, they loved to jump
on the rivers on the major rapids so as all of them also climbed the cliff and
jumped into the river. After tiring journey of rafting they arrived at the
lunch spot and enjoyed their meal. They were driven for few minutes to the
camping resort. They enjoyed to hang around the resort and around the town. As
they were very friendly and somehow looked like Nepalese they easily mixed up
with the resort staffs and even to the local shops close to the resort. Even
they were riding the motor bikes of the resort owners to visit the towns.
At night they seemed enjoying the beautiful view of stars
in a dark night lying beside the bonfire in a little cold weather and listening
to the pleasing sound of Trishuli river. After dinner they spend a few hours in
the riverside enjoying the magnificent atmosphere there. They were not a type
of drinking liquors and dancing with loud music but enjoyed their time with a
nature and peaceful environment. The next morning all the young ones went for
swimming in the high current trishuli river with a guy of resort on Kayak. They
swim in river with the Kayak boat dragging them, which looked they enjoyed the
swimming a lot in spite of the water which was cold for them than their home
town. When asked why not swimming in the swimming pool, their mother said ‘’we
have swimming pool back home’’ these guys really looked how to enjoy the
moments and their parents looked so supportive with the feelings of the youth.
They arrived to Pokhara at late evening as some of the
road obstacle of unknown reason made their journey behind the time for couple
of hours. They wanted to visit the sightseeing spots of Pokhara but the
unexpected rain fall could not help them as they give up the idea of
sightseeing in Pokhara. The dinner was a little walk away and as we were
catering the service of Halal Restaurant in Pokhara for the first time, we missed
the location with misunderstanding of the direction by the restaurant owner and
made the group walk longer a bit, but when we had our dinner it was really nice
and may be the taste of good food took away the disappointment of extra walking
after a long day.
The next morning they had a boating in Fewa Lake that was
also a wonderful experience for them in a boat in a lake which was surrounded
by a beauty of nature which cannot be described with words. The rain last
evening made them miss some of the spots but the important day turned out to be
the one of the brightest in the Pokhara as the all clouds, fogs and mist of
Pokhara was washed out by the yesterday’s rain. One of the main event was about
to begin for them as the Jeep from their paragliding came for the pickup with
pilotes ready and all their gliding gears packed up on the aero rack. The 30
minutes’ drive to the take-off field on the top of Sarangkot was filled with
the excitement as this was something very new to them. Even being from an Asian
families the 50 years + people choosing the paragliding shows their thrust of
adventure and courageous of them. The paragliding group were divided into two
as the first 7 of them took their flight on time. The parents, two girls and 1
boy were the ones to take the first flight. On the second flight 1 of the guy
became lucky in a sense that he could enjoy the view from Sarangkot for an
extra while on a day of nice weather with a perfect visibility and zero cloud
even if he had to wait for his flight. He lost his group member and the
assigned Pilot and took a while to find the Pilot. In fact Pilot was waiting
him badly too to complete the flight and go for the next client.
The one thing looked obvious on them that the high-way
drive of Nepal was not free of threat for them. They looked afraid when the
buses passes to each other very closely on the bends. For the Nepalese
passenger this looks very normal but for the foreigners the highway drive
always fills the excitement.
The last day before departure was there another big day
of Bunjee Jump trip to Last Resort. Only the parents did attended the bunjee
jump, all the young ones did it smoothly. Some body sought ‘’Help’’ in their
native language and rest of their group audience were laughing. Turn by turn
all of them did the jump smoothly couple of them looked very nervous and seemed
to withdraw the jump but the jump indeed. Where couple of them jump on their
own too. The view of their parents was like ‘’if they do the bunjee jump their
acrophobia (fear of height) will not remain on them, kind of treatment.
At the end we as a host enjoyed the 13 Malaysian Tourist
travelling in Nepal for an adventure activities. And we were glad to know that
all of the 13 Malaysian tourist group members enjoyed the Nepal Tour much and also
they thanked us for our service to them. We also thanked them for giving Nepal
One Tours & Travels a chance to offer our service to their adventure trip
to Nepal and we also thanked them for being friendly and being an easy to deal
customer despite being in a group of 13 persons they were very co-operative.
At the end we would like to say that we Love Malaysian
Tourists and our aim is to be a specialized Tour operator for a Malaysian
Tourist travelling in Nepal. www.nepalonetours.com
