You will also feel you鈥檝e lost five hundred years as you wander past untouched mountain villages; or through natural forests of oak and rhododendron; or alongside terraced rice fields that are still being worked with wooden ploughs.

And then there鈥檚 Kathmandu. A crazy, helter-skelter of a city with winding alleyways crammed with rickshaws, secret temples, hidden courtyards with mediaeval-looking workshops and markets selling produce of every colour, shape and smell imaginable.

But ask our specialists for a tailor-made holiday to Nepal and you can expect a few surprises. Taking a walking safari, with elephants, to track one-horned rhinos, for example. Or exploring great forests and grasslands in southern Nepal. Or feeling the pure exhilaration of white water rafting. We鈥檒l reveal the true possibilities.