The Ghorepani and Punhill, the major parts of the Annapurna Circuit also known as the Annapurna Round trek, now feature new tourism infrastructures constructed from the government and community levels.
The Ghorepani-Punhill route is one of the 100 new touristic destinations identified by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation. Local communities too are attracted to invest in the development of physical infrastructures along this unique trekking route as the tourist arrival here is encouraging these days.
Twenty-three solar lamps have been fixed along the route to illuminate it during the night. A three-room concrete building has been built at Punhil to provide a safe resting place for visitors during rain and snowfall. More, an RCC building has been constructed for the Magar Museum at Ghorepani.
The cleanliness of the community and courtesy to visitors have been the priorities of locals. A newly constructed trekking route of around two kilometers stretches from Punhil to Ghandruk via Mohare, Ghorepani, Chitre, and Khiwang. It seems that investors of Ghorepani are competing to attract tourists through better accommodation facilities among other tourism infrastructures.
According to Ghorepani Hotel Management Committee, the hotels here had the capacity to accommodate 500 people daily six years ago while the capacity of these hotels has now been increased to accommodate 1,000 people.
Vice-Chairperson of Hotel Management Sub-Committee, Mina Pun, said that the four-kilometer road connecting Ghorepani via Chitre has been graveled. Gandaki Provincial government invested Rs 270 million to blacktop the 18-kilometer road linking Pokharebagar to Chitre.
A hotel to accommodate 40 people has been brought into operation at Khopara under a new concept of taking tourism benefit to the community for the first time in Nepal.
The trekking route was constructed at Khopara, Khayar, Dhadkharka, Kindu area last year from two million rupees allocated by Annapurna rural municipality, said ward chairperson Rajesh Tilija.
