Crowned by eight of the world's ten highest mountains, Nepal's landscape manages to squeeze lush tropics and arctic tundra into an amazingly small landscape – what might be called a tiny rectangular magical box.

Its altitude ranges from near sea level to 8848 meters above it – the glorious Mt. Everest. The wild variety produces an incredible range of ecosystems – from steamy jungles and terraced valleys, to forested hills, frozen peaks and elevated mountain deserts.

Nepal's rugged terrain has preserved a variety of ethnic and cultural traditions, each with their own language, costumes, customs and beliefs.

The Himalayas contain a wider range of vegetation within a smaller area than possibly anywhere else in the world. Over 6500 species of flowering plants appear in Nepal and, within less than one percent of the world's land mass, it contains ten percent of all its birds - a birdwatcher’s paradise.

Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, is full of life, colour and variety - "every other building is a temple, every other day a festival….."

Defining Nepal in words is impossible – the only solution is to discover Nepal for yourself.