Article Drive Prithvi Highway

If you head directly to Pokhara, it is ideal to use tourist bus. The seat is guaranteed here and it is a little more comfortable and faster than local buses. For more than an hour you will be doing your way through the suburbs of Katmandu in the direction of „antenna“ pass Baad Bhanjyang (1 510 m asl). From here the road drops in long switchbacks to the valley. The traffic is so strong that there are long traffic jams.

During the descent you will have beautiful views of the green two thousand high ridges in many places dotted with rice fields almost to the top.

During the descend from the pass open in good weather views of the part of the main Himalayan ridge – not often visited six thousand meters high mountain Ganesh. The peak on the left Ganesh II (7 118 m asl), neighboring massive peak Pabil (7 104 m asl), behind the pass Salasungo (7 043 m asl). Then, due to the greater distance a little indistinctive highest peak of the whole massif of Yangra (7 422 m asl).

Gradually during the descent into the valley begins to disappear the massif of Ganesh, but the surrounding landscape is still amazing.

The road is still descending in farmland into the valley of the river Trishuli.

Trishuli River springs in Langtang Himal and is one of the most important Nepali rivers. You drive many kilometers along its flow.

Rice fields are ubiquitous. Any suitable place in the landscape is fully used.

Small houses at very romantic places are scattered even in the steep wild slopes towering directly from the river Trishuli.

There are numerous possibilities for snacks along the road. Every driver has his own favorite place. Most of the stops are in the area around Mugling, which is approximately halfway.

In the summer months (period of monsoons) are rivers quite brown. In high season there is considerably less water and it is nicely blue colored.

The road leads on the left side of the river. The right bank is thus connected by a variety of pedestrian suspension bridges.

The lowest point of the road is in Mugling (254 m asl), where is the confluence of Trishuli and Marsyandi, each with a different color of water. Here branch off the tourists heading to National Park Chitwan. The road then rises already along Marsyandi to Dumre, another significant crossroads and then in a little less interesting landscape up to Pokhara (835 m asl).