First team of foreign tourists to visit Mansarovar via Humla this year arrives in Simkot

By Rajan Rawat, Humla, Aug. 23: The first team of foreign tourists to visit the Kailash Mansarovar of Tibet via Simkota this year has arrived here.

The 56-member team of pilgrims will head for Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet Autonomous Region of China by way of Lapcha, Namkha Rural Municipality-6, in Nepal.

Vijay Lama, a local hotelier and tourism entrepreneur, informed that the foreign religious tourists arrived in Simkot on Tuesday and that they would visit the Mansarovar by Lapcha area which is located 5000 meters above sea level.

The team will reach Mansarovar within 3 days.

The team will go to Lekdhinga by vehicle and then take a helicopter to reach Takchi of Limi, and from Tachi, the team will go to visit Mansarovar in a vehicle.

The season to visit Mansarovar has already started and this will continue for two more months.

Shiv Raj Sharma, chief of the district coordination committee, Bijay Bhandari, Chairman of Simkot Rural Municipality, and Sushila Rokaya, vice-chairperson of Simkot Rural Municipality, among others, reached the airport to welcome the first team of foreign tourists.

Some 1500 tourists had visited Kailash Mansarovar last year via Simkot.