Mountains, lakes, medieval cities and temples and vibrant culture – Nepal has almost everything. This small Himalayan country is the Holy Grail for adventure lovers. Some of the most iconic hiking trails of Himalayas are found in Nepal. So here are a few Quotes on Nepal that describes the beauty of this country. If you are looking for some travel inspirations or Nepal instagram captions, these quotes might help you.

The country is for all types of travellers. Nepal is the land of high mountains. Eight of the world’s highest peaks can be found in Nepal. Not only that the place can give you the ultimate adrenaline rush with its adventure activities like bungee jumping, paragliding, white water rafting and a helicopter ride above the Everest. For wildlife lovers too, Nepal offers a wide range of experiences.

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Those who love cities and ancient culture, Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur will definitely strike a chord. The old lanes and alleys of these medieval cities have something so upbeat and unique about them. Though Nepal is a Hindu nation, the country is also the birthplace of Lord Buddha. So you will definitely come across serene stupas and fluttering prayer flags across the country. Lumbini is the birthplace of Lord Buddha and is one of the must-visit places in Nepal.

So here are a few of our favourite Nepal quotes that will tell you how travellers feel about Nepal.

Quotes on Nepal & Nepal Travel Quotes

1. Heaven is a myth, Nepal is real.

2. Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains. – Jeffrey Rasley

3. The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart. – Jane Wilson- Howarth

4. If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha. – Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw

5. I enjoy load shedding in Nepal, when it allows me to witness the dancing of fireflies in the next field, and at the same time to hear children playing a chanting clapping game because there is no TV to waste their time on. – Andrew James Pritchard

6. A Glimpse of Eternal Snows celebrates Nepali wildlife: a smooth grey boulder lifts its head to become a rhinoceros; a langur look-out hysterically grunts the alarm from the treetop as a tiger merges into the dappled scrub; and a menacing mantis makes her home in the makeshift bathroom and refuses to become a pet. – Jane Wilson Howarth

7. Namaste – It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you. – Jennifer Donnelly

8. A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art. – Author: Richard Ernst

9. If Nepal is to become a new Nepal, she must first become free from ethnic segregation. – Santosh   Kalwar

10. You can take my body out of Nepal but you can never take my soul and Heart from a Nepal – Suraj Dahal

11. Travel teaches tolerance. – Benjamin Disraeli

12. Nepal is a beautiful country with a lot of holy places. I also like the country because it’s close to the Himalayas. According to  Hindu mythology, that’s the abode of Lord Shiva. – Kailash  Kher

13. Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us from being swamped by our problems. In Nepal, it was easier to take life day by day. – Jane Wilson-Howarth

14. Tourists who come to Nepal look at terraced fields and see their beauty but remain blind to the hard labour they extract from tillers. –Manjushree Thapa

15. Her singing was a deep, yearning subconscious desire to go back to a time when the Nepali identity wasn’t sullied by external forces. –Samrat Upadhyay

16. Travel wherever your heart wishes. –Nipendra Maharjan

17. Nepal: once is not enough. –Iumlenepal

18. I like the way Nepalis point by pouting their lips; they reckon pointing with a finger is rude. –Jane Wilson-Howarth

19. I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.-Jane Wilson-Howarth

20. The Valley was settled, civilised and debauched – a depthless lake levelling out to a cluster of paddy-fringed temple cities that eventually merged into a sprawling dust bowl of a metropolis. Today the Bagmati [river] has shrunk to a snail’s trail of gooey sewage. Modern-day Kathmandu festers around it, three million souls crouched across 900 square kilometres, hoarding the fat of the land, awaiting the day of reckoning. –Rabi Thapa

21. The monkey-thief was fast. He didn’t even look back as he shot back up the tree to enjoy my lunch. Another rhesus monkey reached into my day-sack and cantered away awkwardly with a bigger prize. –Jane Wilson-Howarth

22. I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don’t think I can climb Everest again. -Tamae Watanabe

23. Beliefs divide us; values unite us. –Jeff Rasley

24. The stupa is a white dome with a conical stone tower emerging from its center. There are two eyes painted on the tower, the all-seeing eyes of Buddha. They’re purple and look a little sinister, like an Old Testament Buddha. –Joshua Isard

And now a few for the avid mountaineers | Quotes on Everest 

25. You do not climb a mountain like Everest by trying to race ahead on your own, or by competing with your comrades. You do it slowly are carefully, by unselfish teamwork. Certainly, I wanted to reach the top by myself; it was the one thing that I had dreamed of all my life. But if the lot fell to someone else, I would take it like a man, and not a crybaby — for that is the mountain way. – Tenzing Norgay

26. Because it’s there. – George Mallory

27. Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality. – Jon Krakauer

28. The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.” – Krakauer

29. This forms the nub of a dilemma that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you’re too driven you’re likely to die. – Krakauer

30. On June 1 George told Ruth it would have been ‘unbearable’ to miss the final attempt. His frostbitten fingers might suffer further damage, but he declared: ‘The game is worth a finger. ― Peter Gillman, Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory

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