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The Annapurna Sanctuary is a 4,130-metre basin walled in by peaks over 7,000 metres on every side — a place so shadowed it sees just seven hours of…
By Anjali Shrestha · Aug 9, 2026
Forty kilometres north of Pokhara, the ground does something nowhere else in Nepal does: it closes in, then opens into a room. Walk two days up the Modi Khola gorge, squeeze through a gap barely wide enough for the trail between two mountains, and the valley…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
Stand at the head of the basin, at what's now called Annapurna Base Camp, and turn in a full circle. Annapurna I, the tenth-highest mountain on Earth at 8,091m, rises directly ahead. Machapuchare — the “Fishtail,” sacred to Shiva and, uniquely among Nepal's…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
Long before trekkers arrived, the Gurung communities of the Annapurna foothills treated the basin as forbidden ground. Local belief held it as a treasure house guarded by Naga spirits, and Machapuchare's summit as the seat of Shiva himself — reason enough…
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