Bhaktapur guide is busy on virtual tour

Kathmandu. The weather at this time is becoming touristy. Neither too fast nor too cold. Guides in Bhaktapur are busy on virtual tours as the number of tourists is low this season.

Rita Suwal, 31, of Bhaktapur has recently taken Israeli tourists on a virtual tour of Bhaktapur through Jum.

Suwal is very happy to be able to tell tourists about Nepal through mobile using internet. “Even if there is an epidemic now, I have a choice. “I have learned a new way through virtual tours,” she told the BBC.

In the first year of the epidemic, the number of tourists visiting Bhaktapur had dropped from about 2.5 million to 3,000. According to the Bhaktapur Tourism Development Committee, 12 guides have taken up other professions as the number of tourists has decreased due to the epidemic.

During the epidemic, 72 out of 82 guides in Bhaktapur Durbar Square were trained as virtual guides. Currently 10 people are active as virtual guides.

See how Suwal does a virtual tour created by Srijana Shrestha