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The opening screen of the CD-ROM offers you the choice to go to the Introduction, the Virtual Tours, Themes, Extras or the Internet.

In the Virtual Tours you can choose from eleven different destinations.

Nepal is divided into five chapters: the Kathmandu Valley (with Chitwan National Park), the Jomsom Trek (Annapurna), Langtang Trek (Gosainkund and Helambu), the Everest Trek from Jiri and the Everest Trek with Gokyo. The Tibet chapter takes you overland from Kathmandu to Lhasa (the Potala, Sera, Drepung, the Jokhang) visiting Zhangmu, Tingri, Sakya, Shigatse (Tashilunpo) and Gyantse on the way.

In Pakistan you start in Rawalpindi following the Karakoram Highway along the banks of the Indus up to Gilgit and Karimabad. With trips into Skardu, Baltistan, Chitral, the Kalash Valley, Peshawar with the Khyber Pass and Lahore. The Darjeeling & Sikkim chapter takes you from Darjeeling in West Bengal into Sikkim via the Pemayangste Monastery and Gangtok, with a visit to the Rumtek Monastery and Kalimpong.

The Ladakh chapter follows the journey north of Delhi via Hardwar and Rishikesh on the banks of the holy River Ganges. From Manali you travel further north via some of the highest motorable passes in the world to Leh. With visits to Tikse, Shey, Hemis, Alchi, Phyang and Lamayuru Monasteries. Bhutan consists of two chapters. The first one takes you to Thimphu (Tashichoedzong, archery festival, market) Paro, Bhumthang and Jakar Valleys. The second chapter is a special feature of Canadian photographer Timothy Hellum which takes you to the Thimphu Tsechu (one of the most impressive Himalayan temple festivals) as well as offering a closer look on rural life.

the opening screen

the virtual tours

full screen crisp images in every chapter

The Themes section offers you twelve special image selections. Religion (objects and images, rituals, temples), People, Panoramic pictures, Everyday life (entertainment, food, work, transport and housing), Nature, (flora & fauna and landscapes) and Mountains.

The Extras chapter offers you some large scrollable panoramic images and more than 30 minutes of specially composed Himalayas inspired music. (You can listen to a sample at the Sound sample page.)

special themes

With the navigation bar, which appears when you move your mouse pointer to the bottom of the screen on the CD-ROM, you can easily browse through the chapters or you can sit back and watch the automated slide shows while listening to the locally recorded sounds and the narrators voice giving all the extra information.

You can also navigate through the tours by clicking the active yellow dots on the interactive maps.

easy navigation with the menu bar...

On the CD-ROM clicking the extra text button on the top of the screen allows you to read all the extra background information. Hundreds of words are further explained in the Lexicon.

You can click here to see a full size sample (reduced for web use). The buttons are not active in this sample.

learn more from the extra information

You can click the image to the right to hear a sample of the narrator. This is only a short sample which has been reduced for internet use. The sounds and the narrators voice will start automatically if you run the slide shows on the CD-ROM. You can switch the voice of the narrator and the sounds on and off at any time.