By A Staff Reporter, Kathmandu, June 19: To promote tourist destinations in eastern Nepal, 2025 will be celebrated as ‘Mundum Trail Visit Year’. The Mundum Trail Visit Year was announced during a programme held at the Tourism Board on Monday. The Mundum Trail includes tourist spots primarily inhabited by the Kirats in Sankhuwasabha, Bhojpur, Khotang and Solukhumbu districts of Koshi Province.
This trail is known for its easy hiking paths. The main attractions of the Visit Year include festivals such as shed stay, oranges, shamans, Sakela Ubhauli and Udhauli, and Rudraksha, intending to lure more than 100,000 tourists to the area, said a press statement issued by Nepal Tourism Board (NTB). Speaking on the occasion, former Tourism Minister Sudan Kirati stressed that the Mundum Trail is a unique cultural route and underscored tourism development would not harm its natural state.
He said that tourism reflecting indigenous and traditional cultures was a hallmark of Nepal’s tourism, and added promoting the Mundum Trail would support the overall tourism sector. Former Minister Shankar Koirala said that the Mundum Trail was a new and unique tourist destination and that its promotion would add a new dimension to tourism in Koshi Province. Senior Director of the NTB, Hikmat Singh Air, said that the board had been regularly working on the promotion of tourist sites and assured continued support for the promotion of the Mundum Trail.
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