Facilities » Massage. Massage has become a means of body treatment, it can relief your mussels, joints pains it also could cure headache, now the massage treatment has shown the evidence of curing many diseases of human kind. Hotel Barahi offers you this service regularly upon your request. We have in house well trained massage personals to provide you the best service. Please make a call to front office for the service. You can request for Shiatsu, Aromatherapy Reflexology Treatments. Ayurvedic Massage: This process involves complete mind, senses and body treatment. The Ayurvedic massage therapy helps you to relax the tension filled parts of your body-mind. It helps to release subtle stress and allows you to heal and rejuvenate from deep inside the body. This relaxation massage often takes you to a state of deep tranquility, joy and happiness. Shiatsu Massage: A Japanese massage system that incorporates finger, thumb and palm pressure along the bodies' energy channels. The intent is to release energy blockages, rebalance and stimulate energy flow. Shiatsu, also known as acupressure, is a finger pressure massage technique. Shiatsu massage therapy and acupuncture are founded on the Chinese meridian system. The therapist applies pressure with his thumbs, finger, and palms to specific areas of the client's body that have been determined during an assessment period prior to the massage session. There are no needle pokes involved with Shiatsu. Massage techniques like tapping, squeezing, rubbing, and applied pressure are applied along the meridians to unblock energy blockages.

Pokhara Tour Package » 1 Night/ 2 Days Pokhara Tour. Day 1 Pokhara Arrival. Arrive at Pokhara by Air or coach. Check in to Hotel Barahi. On reaching Pokhara enjoy boating the rest of your time at Phewa Lake. Day 2 Pokhara Kathmandu. Early morning weak up and drive to Sarangkot (A well known hill station) to enjoy the view of sunrise and spectacular view of mountain range including Mt. Fishtail and many others. Sight seeing tour of Bindebashini Temple, Seti Gorge, Old Bazar, Regional Museum, Davis Fall, Gupteshowor Cave and back to Lakeside. Group Size and Package cost per person in USD. Single Supplementary. Package cost includes: Accommodation on twin sharing basis. The meals (Breakfast and Lunch/Dinner: Modified American Plan) are included in the package cost. Ground transportation by reserve vehicle (Airport/ Bus park Hotel Airport/Bus Park Sight seeing tours). Guided sightseeing tours. Entrance fees of Pokhara sight seeing spots, Fewa Lake Boating. Package cost exclude: Airport departure taxes. Any expenses of personal nature such as travel insurance, drinks, laundry, telephone / fax calls, porters or arranging additional transportation. Services other than specified

Facilities » Gardens. As you enter the hotel, the blooming flowers welcomes you, greenery is fantastic, simply you will enjoy the beauty, try us and have peace in mind. You are always welcome to enjoy the beauty of your front or back ever flowering garden, sitting on the green surface reading your novels, or for garden dining. The Garden Cafe is available for morning coffee, lunches, afternoon teas so you can enjoy a glass of wine with your meal. Pool side garden is perfect place for relaxing. There is also a souveniers gift shop selling a range of exclusive gift items. You could find out the nice souvenier to take home which reminds your Nepal tour all the time. Garden area is well maintained and gardeners are ever ready to take care of flowers and plants, its really colorful with different flowering and non flowering plants. It will please you and you will love to see around.

Facilities » Conferences. We have the facilities to host conferences and other events for up to 100 people at a time. We can provide catering, transfers by coach, car hire and other forms of transport parking, business facilities such as phone, fax, email etc. as well as accommodation. Facilities include a PA system, videos TVs, OHPs, flipcharts etc. We offer attractive rates for large group bookings. Please for further details.

Visit Pokhara Year-2007 Kicks off. Pokhara… Pure Perfect. Fewa Mahotsav in Pokhara (07Apr’07 to 15Apr’07). Rice Planting Festival (Ropai Jatra). Annapurna int’l food festival. Changa Chait 2064 (2007) Paper birds in the sky. Street Festival: December 2007 (New Year Festival). Visit Pokhara Year-2007 is going on…………, this campaign has been designed and implemented to promote this beautiful place on earth with above slogan Pokhara… Pure Perfect. During this period different promotional programs will be done in various tourist market places and the service provides in Nepal will make the appropriate package s for their clients with various attractive offers. According to the organizers (Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Nepal Tourism Board, Pokhara Tourism Council and other associations) this program compaign which is the largest tourism event after restoration of peace in the country will be marked by a series of celebrations throughout the year. The main aim of the event is to increase foreign tourists’ arrivals to Pokhara by 25 percent in 2007 and raise the flow of domestic tourist by 40 percent. Likewise the event also aims to extend the length of tourists to stay to three days against the current 1.5 days, and raise the international tourist’s expenditure. During this year various events and programs is going to be organized to offer the new experience and taste to its visitors through out the year. The program of Fewa Mahotsav with a slogan of Save Fewa Lake has been finalized for 07. Apr’07, which will take place at lakeside Pokhara on the occasion of Nepali New Year 2064. The organizer; Pokhara Hotel Association is planning for various recreational and food festival kind of programs to mark the event. The program will commence with a procession of people playing Panche Baja (five Nepali folk instruments), music and Jhaki of various ethnic groups dressed in different Nepali costumes. There will sport competitions and other functions to provide the multiple options of recreation to the visitors. The program is promoted by Nepal Tourism Board. Hotels in Pokhara are providing special offers to their guest on this occasion; offer are one night complementary stay for paid two staying visitors, and more attractive package programs are yet to come as informed by Pokhara Hotel Association. This Festival is celebrated every year on Ashad 15 (29. June’07) as an interesting event, with the wishes of producing more crops. It also symbolize that the day is the end of planting period. On the festival day we all visit the farm fields (Paddy farm) where ladies plant the rice plant and gentleman plough the field to make the land suitable for planting the paddy. Every year tourists participate in the festival and took part in running competition on muddy paddy field, play mud and have a fun in Pokhara. Folk song competitions, planting rice competitions and several other entertaining games are organized during the festival. Rice Planting Festival (Ropai Jatra) is the rice planting ceremony in which participants perform plowing and planting on the field. Farmers do planting and ploughing by singing folk songs. It is a special day for the Nepalese as it is celebrated as one of the important agricultural practices in the country- that of planting paddy. This is also the time when the farmers sing the 'Asare Geet' or the Songs sung while planting rice in the Nepali month of Asar. These songs enumerate the joys and sorrows of the farmers. Hotel Association Nepal (HAN), Regional Chapter Pokhara is organizing the Annapurna International Food Festival to promote domestic and international tourism during October 2007 in Pokhara. The great one of its kind to be organized in Pokhara, in which a wide range of traditional, local as well as international food items will be served, said Hari Gurung, president of HAN, Pokhara. The event is a part of ‘Jaun Hai Pokhara’ campaign and also visit Pokhara year 2007. The upcoming food festival will have food items from India, China, Pakistan, Bang-ladesh, Japan, Mala-ysia, Sri Lanka, Italy, Mexico, Spain and others along with Nepali traditional kitchen like Newari, Thakali and continental. Local hotels, resorts and resta-urants based in Pokhara are taking part in the event. “A unique part of the event is that chefs for international foods have been invited from their respective countries of origin,” said Gurung, adding that international chefs are being brought here in Pokhara with the help of embassies in Kathmandu. The kite flying competition is an interesting event organized every year in Pokhara during the month of November. The different teams from corporate houses and individuals (locals and tourists) participate in the competition for fun. The winner has to slash the thread of competitors kite with the help of own kites thread on the sky. Apart from the kite-flying competition there were many other programs to keep the onlookers as well as the teams entertained. Those groups who did not succeed to cut each other's kite within fifteen minutes of time had to play Mandala which meant they had to cut each other's string with a make- do lattai of corncob (makai ko khoya). They were not allowed to use lattai to cut their strings. In a bid to promote Pokhara as a holiday destination for New Year celebration, the 9th Pokhara Street Festival will be organised in this tourist hub city from December 28, 2007. The five-day festival has been planned by the Restaurant and Bar Association of Nepal (REBAN) in association with the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB). The inflow of domestic and foreign tourists into Pokhara has increased. Most of the flights on Kathmandu-Pokhara sector are said to be full these days. Traditional cultural shows, various ethnic dances of Bhaktapur and Chitwan, along with games for children and tourists like tourist race, waiters race, boat race, tug of war, beer drinking competition are some of the highlights of the event.