Time lists Garden of Dreams

Internationally acclaimed weekly magazine Time has rated Garden of Dreams as one of the favourite places to visit in the Soul section of its Travel Special.

“If you find yourself in the frenetic Thamel tourist district of Kathmandu and are overcome with a need for tranquility, leave the Nepali capital’s snarling traffic and persistent hawkers behind you and make for this lush greensward across the street from the former Royal Palace,” writes reporter Karen Leigh.

Designed in the 1920s as a private garden, its wide lawns, surrounded by bamboo, fountains and exotic trees, are the perfect place to revive after a gruelling climbing adventure, Leigh writes, adding, “Walk its immaculately kept perimeter paths before you find a spot to lie on the grass and read a book, sounds of the city drifting overhead.” “Coverage of Garden of Dreams in Time has put Nepal once again in the international tourism map,” said director and spokesperson at Nepal Tourism Board Aditya Baral. “The image of Nepal as a happening destination has been redeemed.”

Built by late field marshal Kaiser Sumsher Rana as his private garden representing six seasons, it is a neo-classical historical garden renovated and restored from 2000 to 2007, and opened for the public in 2008.

source: the himalayan Times, 19 March 2013