Palungtar, Gorkha: Nepal's Next Agroecotourism Frontier

Ask most travelers about Gorkha and they'll picture the hilltop palace of Prithivi Narayan Shah, the birthplace of a nation. Fewer know about Palungtar municipality just southwest of Gorkha Bazaar, cradled in the Marsyangdi River valley, where terraced rice fields, beekeeping villages, and one of the best sunrise viewpoints in central Nepal are quietly waiting for the kind of traveler who wants more than a photo stop. This is agroecotourism country: a place to work a terrace, share a meal grown twenty feet from the kitchen, and wake up to Manaslu on the horizon.