Most tourists visiting Nepal will make sure they spend a couple of days in Pokhara. Many will surely extend their stay to take a sojourn around the region, since Pokhara is a sort of gateway to many attractive trekking destinations.

However, Tibet has many architectural wonders even if they were not all made by Arniko. The greatest of them is Potala Palace, one of the world’s best known landmarks. It sits atop Marpo Ri Hill, 130 m above the Lhasa valley, and from there, rises a further 170 m heavenwards.

Nepal has a large number of lakes, some of which are located at really high altitudes—they are the mountain lakes of glacial origin. It is believed that Tilicho Lake, located at 4,949 m in the district of Manang in the Annapurna Range, is the highest lake in the world.