As soon as tourists drop down at
Tribhuwan International Airport, they will have a simple schedule of
either Pokhara or Lumbini. Cases are not only for international
tourists, but the similar kind of cases can be noticed for domestic
tourists as well. It seems as if only these two are the places of Nepal
to be visited.
There are such a huge number of
potential places for visiting in Nepal that has remained unexplored.
Bhedetar has been a popular destination in Eastern Nepal. Located at top
of the hills at 1420m above the sea level, the place has been gaining
attention these days. It was after 2038 BS, when the prince of Britain,
Charles visited the place; the place has been gaining huge popularity.
Charles Tower is the name of tower thereby. Namaste Jharna is the
popular destination these days of Eastern Nepal.
The place is limited within local people
around. Places around should have gained huge popularity. Namje, a
model village that had been enlisted in CNN last year could not make
huge attraction either. After gaining such a huge credit, the village
should have been the popular destination place for people all around,
after all, it has been named as such a village, where one must explore.
Raja Rani Lake is next location that can
be travelled after being to Namje. Raja Rani is 21 kilometres from
Bhedetar. It is a valley that has historic background with it. It is
believed that in ancient times, there were two lakes, Mother Lake and a
father lake. There used to live two specific powers thereby that flowed
down in 1862. The power shifted to next district, and ever since, these
two lakes are as streams thereby.
If it has to be compared, the lake is of
the size of somewhat Naintal of India. The reason for not comparing it
with Phewa lake is, the size of the lake in Dhankuta is almost less than
half of Phewa lake, and something equal to that of Naintal. It is
clean, and beautiful. Both the lakes; Nain and here are surrounded by
hills around. Both the lake seems still, and lovely. However, Naintal
has huge promotion done, and has reached that state, while very few have
heard about Raja Rani. If the promotion is done in aggressively, the
lake can gain equal credit as that of Phewa Lake.
Tourism in Eastern Nepal has certainly
not flourished as it had to be. Destination to Raja Rani can always the
best experience for any traveller who loves travelling. Illam is not
only the place in East, Raja Rani has showed the new identity as well.
However, there are tasks that have to be
carried out by four Special Forces for Raja Rani to kiss the peak of
popularity.Raja Rani’s community, Nepal Tourism Board, Media and the
individuals living in the country! The very first thing is the community
needs to make a firm stand. There are boating facilities shown at this
time, however, the boats are in a fragile state. They seem to be out of
maintenance, and despite having almost dozen of boats there, only one or
two seems to be at working state. This shows the poor state of Raja
Rani, and it has to be maintained by the community thereby. Again, the
lake has a huge prospectus of getting polluted, if not taken care of.
Whisky bottles around, noodles wrappers in very less quantity around
itself show the future, and can be regarded as the indication that it
requires a serious care.
Nepal Tourism Board on the other hand,
should not be focused simply with Everest Base Camp, Annapurna
Conversation Area Project (ACAP), or Pokhara. NTB has to re- think the
ways of promotion. There are so many places that require promotion.
‘Destination Dhankuta’; must be brought within the mind of peoples, so
that they would at least enlist Dhankuta in their Travelling list. Only
when people recognise ‘Dhankuta’; they will keep it in their travelling
place. Media is the only way of promotion. Media should not be biased
and should research of such unexplored portion of the country as well.
Ultimately, individual has to do a lot
with it. It is not always necessary to keep their honeymoon destiny to
Pokhara or Chitwan. Raja Rani is not bad either. Again, travelling has
been practised by today’s youth as well. You can go there by public bus,
hire a vehicle, or on your own bike. For peoples of Kathmandu, Raja
Rani can be a real long and exciting Eastern Drive. And, it is high
time; people must use word of mouth advertising method to promote
domestic tourism in Nepal. Else, Thailand, Bangkok or Malaysia’s scheme
would take entire profit of tourism from our country. Every time one
travels to a new place, he or she must be able to persuade two other
peoples to go and visit there.
Published in Annapurna Post's Englis Version on December 24, 2016.
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