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Fall Colors in Rara (Part 2)

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My previous posts of 13 photos here . Enjoy some more of the photos taken during October Visit to Rara Lake in Mugu. Rara lake is the biggest lake in Nepal. Since this is located in an alpine altitude, we can see beautiful pastureland, meadow and grassland sprawled around the lake. Even the hills  here are more gentle, giving way to sprawling beautiful meadows where local herd their cattle throughout the year.

CK Raut is the Key Word

A cursory search through alexa.com of Nepal's online portals will quickly show us that CK Raut is the buzz word. I was checking the traffic on some tiny site for my official work, and I just lazily flicked through the top sites of Nepal only to be intrigued to see in one of them that among the 5 keywords , CK Raut was also one (other keywords mostly being referrals of the same website or something dry like Nepal or RSS). It piqued my interest and so I went through several other top Nepali websites, mostly newsy, and turns out CK Raut is a HIT. It's among the top 5 keywords in the following sites: Nagariknews.com Setopati.com Ratopati.com Pahilopost.com Kathmandutoday.com These site are 5 of the 9 most visited websites of Nepal. Note that among the top 25 websites (according to the traffic flow in the past month) in Nepal, only 9 are Nepali. Number one is of course facebook, and there are other giants like amazon, wikipedia, google etc rounding up the 16 top spots

Fall Colors in Rara

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Such a beautiful place. Here are a few randomly selected ones from my shots of over 1000 which I shot during my last trip to Rara during October.