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A few hours away from Kathmandu in the middle of nature and five minutes from several villages are found in the Mountain hotel,"The Two Rivers Lodge" It is hedge rounded by flowers and banana trees. Two rivers meet 300m from the lodge that adjoins a small forest. 18 rooms of which 12 have shower and WC attached, running water (hot water in the winter season). Simple comfort yet rare in the mountains of Nepal.
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ideal for rest and return to nature several easy hill walks 1 to 5 days |
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The Helambu Valley
where we are at the confluence of two rivers. The Melamchi Khola right picture) and the Gyalthum Khola. A luxuriant Vegetation and a tropical microclimate. ( 2 days to walk to get to summits 6000 m high) |
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Located at an altitude of 1300 m, we are in the midts
of superb and diverse Landscapes. Welcoming villages and smiling
villagers. The lodge is surrounded by bougainvilliers of all colors, more that 40 different species of hibiscuses, Bananas trees, pineapples, mangoes, the whole being encircled by wheat fields and terraced paddy fields, depending on the season. |
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Composed of several buildings, one of which being the lounge and dining room, very convivial with a fireplace for the wintertime. Everybody eats at the table d'hôte, fixed and varied menus (usually vegetarian based on the national Nepali dish, Dal-Bhat -Tarkari vegetables and lentil sauce. |
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Twin bedded rooms, simple but agreeable with a sink, W.C. and a shower (hot water in the wintertime) Duvets also. |
| Rooms surrounded by flowers and trees (bananas trees mangoes) a small veranda in front of each room 9 right picture). |
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Some members of the " 2 Rivers lodge " team. Reinforced by nurse and schoolteachers, the nearby school and dispensary entirely supported by us (See humanitarian action). |
| MAP of HELAMBU .Location of lodge and dispensary. Click on photo |
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THE CLIMATE: Located in a valley (1300m),
we enjoy a tropical microclimate, where the Lodge is, we have
never seen snow and the temperature never went below freezing
point (hence the luxuriant plantations). From December to January, we have sunny weather, between 14 to 18 degrees at midday, the temperature drops to 6 to 7 degrees in the afternoon and then to 2 to 3 degrees in the evening. |
| Rates: . For any duration stays, please contact us |
| To come to the lodge, there is a 4 hour bus ride or by taxi and two hours and a half to walk on pathways. A guide will walk you to the lodge and you will have porters for your luggage during the walk. |
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IN PARIS: Le Monde du Népal. (agency Le Monde de l'Inde et de l'Asie) 15 rue des Ecoles 75005. Paris. Tel O146340320. E-mail. bb@mondeasie.com |
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| The small forest near the lodge. Hills surrounding the lodge are mostly cultivated or forests. |
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Ploughing to get the earth ready for the wheat |
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The forest of wild rhododendrons, blessing a walk day, forms the lodge, at the end of February. |
| Two walking days away, the snowy mountains and the blossoming rhododendrons. Many villages of different ethnic groups, Tibetans, sherpa, tamangs, Bramans. |
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| WALK TO HELP! : Some hundreds of yards away, is found our free dispensary and school. these humanitarian actions created by the French association Rhone- Helambu are self reliant through our trekking agency, Nepal ecology Trek and helped by the 2 Rivers Lodge. We do not receive any institutional subventions from whom so eves and we do not request it. We run it all by our work and the trekking agency. | c |
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DISPENSARY is completely free, We treat approximately 22000 people a year! Doctors, Dentists, Nurses, European volunteers come to train our Nepalese nurses. |
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We also built a school
with four classrooms, completely free, for the little ones who
study in Nepali and English. At the moment, 118 children. We
will be starting in October 99 the construction of 4 more classrooms
to be able to double the number of our pupils, there being so
many demands. In India, 18 years back we created 2 schools, they are still running with 520 children in a Shantytown of Delhi (click on picture ) |
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Trekking with us contributes to save lives and send destituted children to school. |
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