Dream catcher, you are absolutely right, we, primarily senior people pronounce it as भच्चुर. Looks like you have visited more places than I have done.

Annapurna, yea, if that is the plance in western part of the district. pandhaare could be a place where you encountered the maoists.

I was in Bangkok when that tragidy happened. My in-laws house was right next to the Army camp, in norhtern side, I was terribly worried when I heared that news. Fortunalely, nothing bad happened to my in-laws family other than several bullet holes in the walls of the house.

You must have walked to deurali, about 1 KM west of the main bajar. about 1 KM down the hill from there is where I was grown up. As I went through your memories, remembered several of those who were guests while I was doing high school in Bidhodaya.

Thanks for sharing your feelings here in this thread, it makes me so happy to listen from the people like you who love the place as a visitor. As you know, not many people visit my place and it so great that you have been to there, and spent that long.