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RE: Exploring Old Pokhara, A City in the Foothills of the Himalayas
What's remarkable about Pokhara is its low altitude compared to other settlements in the country. The streets are clean and beautiful. I liked it.
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Partly true. It's a mountainous part of Nepal, so Pokhara is several hundreds meters higher than the plains. But for the mountainous part, Pokhara has a low altitude because it's located in a valley. And only for that reason it can host more than a half million people. Kathmandu valley (the capital, with almost 1 million people) is even more impressive:
A natural fortress, a huge one!