Tiger Mountain Pokhara Lodge
NEPAL
Personalities
Artists, Writers, Photographers, People looking to enjoy nature's majestic beauty quietly.
MOMENTS
Watch the sunrise over the Annapurna Range, with a fresh pot of coffee. Hot water bottle in the bed on a chilly night. Unparalled views and the freshest air.
Best Visiting Months
Fall (September to November) and spring are the best times to come to Nepal.
Cost
Why Stay
Nestled 1,000 feet above the Pokhara Valley, among bamboo and fruit trees, with a surreal Himalayan backdrop, Tiger Mountain Pokhara Lodge is one of the most unforgettable places to stay in Nepal. Enjoy views of the famous Himalayan peaks - Dhaulagiri, Annapurna and Manaslu and the Annapurna Range from the terrace of your private cottage or the lodges' infinity pool. The clusters of cottages resembling a Nepali village. Inside you will find rich Tibetan rugs and handmade wood furniture. Enjoy pre-dinner cocktails on the candle-lit terrace or after dinner aperitifs around the fire. Find a sense of living in a local village with luxury in this natural haven.
Why wander
Tiger Mountain Pokhara Lodge is ideal for guests starting or finishing their trek, or just wanting to relax in an authentic Nepalese rural setting. Enjoy bird watching and day hikes through villages and forests. Explore the beautiful lakeside or go paragliding against Annapurna’s backdrop if you are feeling adventurous. Soak up the mountain air and enjoy life away from the big cities.
INDULGE IN
Homemade breads, paneer, dahl.
getting there
This boutique lodge is just half an hour's drive from Pokhara in western Nepal.
GET INVOLVED
The lodge grounds are kept entirely natural with no manicured lawns or exotic planting. This has increased the floral diversity over the past twenty-odd years and with it enhanced insect diversity monitored by ad hoc dragonfly counts and monthly Butterfly Surveys.
The bare hilltop in the lodge grounds has been allowed to grow back naturally to its traditional use as a thatch grass field - local houses used to be thatched with wild grass species growing some 3m high such as Imperata sp. This has also improved insect diversity and reduced erosion from rainwater runoff.
The sides of the hill are wooded with natural growth Schima Castanopsis forest typical of this altitude in mid-western Nepal. This was heavily lopped in the past but we have protected the woodland to allow wonderful regeneration enhancing bird diversity around the grounds.
We work closely with our local community forest committee to provide financial support as well as advice and technical input into management plans and actions. As a result, we actively support forest protection over more than 150 acres in the area surrounding the lodge.
Local charities - We work with Bird Conservation Nepal (local equivalent of RSPB) supporting their Pokhara Branch with monetary and technical advice. We work with National Trust for Nature Conservation and WWF Nepal as well as with ad hoc charities on their specific requests.
International Charities - we work with Birdlife International on the annual Asian Wetlands Census leading the waterbird counts for all the Pokhara Lakes and have done this for almost 15 years now. We also report new species butterfly sightings to the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. We are currently exploring how we may link with RTSOI the responsible tourism society of India and are life members of the Bombay Natural History Society the oldest learned society in the sub-continent.
We have also supported individual researchers on Leopard predation, snake rescue, Gharial conservation, etc.
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