{"id":26578,"date":"2018-04-01T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=26578"},"modified":"2018-04-01T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T12:02:21","slug":"nepal-launches-accessible-trekking-trail-for-disabled-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/nepal-launches-accessible-trekking-trail-for-disabled-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal launches \u2018accessible\u2019 trekking trail for disabled, elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu,<br \/>\nNepal has launched its first \u201caccessible\u201d trekking trail in Pokhara city for the disabled and the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>The trail was inaugurated as a part of three-day international conference on Accessible Tourism\u2019 held for the first time in the Himalayan nation from March 29 to March 31 in Pokhara, reports Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Rabindra Adhikari inaugurated the 1.3-km section of the 14-km long hiking path in the ridge connecting Sarangkot to Naudanda areas, the Nepal Tourism Board said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trail offers a magnificent view of Mt. Annapurna, Fisthtail and Manaslu,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The NTB said the trail would enhance the prospect of attracting a strong segment of disabled and elderly tourists\u2019 population to Nepal. The trail has proper signage and washrooms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe concerned authorities have pledged more support in the coming fiscal year that will begin in mid-July this year to lay down all the standards and facilities to establish the trail as \u2018probably the best\u2019 and \u2018leading trail\u2019 in Asia,\u201d the NTB said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Nepal has launched its first \u201caccessible\u201d trekking trail in Pokhara city for the disabled and the elderly. The trail was inaugurated as a part of three-day international conference on Accessible Tourism\u2019 held for the first time in the Himalayan nation from March 29 to March 31 in Pokhara, reports Xinhua news agency. Minister for [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26580,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26578\/revisions\/26580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}