pokhara

Pokhara is located in the northwestern corner of the pokhara valley  which is a widening of the Gandaki valley. The seati river and its tributaries have dug impressive canyons into the valley floor, which are only visible from higher viewpoints or from the air. To the east of Pokhara is the municipality of lekhnath, a moment ago established town in the valley.

In no other place do mountains rise so speedily. In this area, within 30 km, the elevation rises from 1,000 m to over 7,500 m. Due to this sharp rise in altitude the area of Pokhara has one of the highest precipitation rates of the countryside (over 4,000 mm/year). yet within the city there is a noticeable difference in the amount of downpour between the south of the city by the lake and the north at the foot of the mountains.

The weather is sub-tropical but due to the elevation the temperatures are moderate: the summer temperatures average between 25–35 °C, in winter around -2–15 °C.

In the south the city borders on phewa tal  (4.4 km² at an elevation of about 800 m above sea level), in the north at an elevation of around 1,000 m the outskirts of the city touch the base of the  n range. From the southern fringes of the city 3 eight-thousanders, in the middle of the Annapurna range, the Machapuchare with close to 7,000 m can be seen. This mountain dominates the northern horizon of the city and its name derives from its twin peaks, visitable seen from the south. The porous underground of the Pokhara valley favours the development of caves of which three prominent ones can be found within the city: Bat and Gupteswor. In the south of the city, a tributary of the Seti coming from Phewa Lake disappears at Patale Chhango (Nepali for Hell's Falls, also called Devi's or David's Falls, after someone who supposedly fell into the falls) into an underground gorge, to reappear 500 metres further south