Nepal Trekking Information

 

Nepal Trekking

You don't need to possess an exceptional physique or any great strength to enjoy trekking in Nepal. If you are in good health, physically fit and have a taste for outdoor life, you can join most of our treks. Some treks, however, are quite rigorous and involve climbing high altitudes. Difficulties may be encountered on these treks because of the thin air at such elevations and the strenuous exertions required. It will be good if you try to find out as much as possible about Nepal’s customs especially about the particular trek that you have planned before arriving a. It is always our pleasure to provide you information with updated facts.

Types of Trekking

Lodge Trek
The most popular way to trek is to use local trekking lodges for accommodation and meals. There are good lodges every few hours on treks in the Annapurna, Langtang, and Khumbu (Everest) regions. Lodges in the hills provide a special meeting place for trekkers from around the world. You will have a good opportunity to see how people in the hills of Nepal live, work and eat and may develop at least a rudimentary knowledge of the Nepali language. On our 'Tea-House Treks', all food and accommodation is part of your package. Porters carry your gear, and a guide travels with the group during the day and handles all the arrangements for meals and dealing with bureaucracy. It's hassle-free trekking with just a light daypack!

Camping Trek
The classic style of trek in Nepal is to camp in tents and employ porters to carry your gear and sherpas to set up camp, cook and serve meals. You carry a pack with only water, camera and jacket. If you are used to carrying your own gear in a backpack, you'll be amazed at the apparent luxury of a trekking camp in Nepal. Although you'll be sleeping on foam mattresses placed on the ground, you'll be assigned a roomy A-frame or dome tent that comfortably accommodates two people and their gear. Meals are served family style at a table as you sit in a chair in a dining tent or outside enjoying the view. The camp staff have their own tents and kitchen facilities and kitchen-boys race back and forth to the dining tent acting as waiters. If there is no permanent toilet, the staff dig a hole and set up a toilet tent.

Camping-groups are fully independent of local accommodation and food. A fully organized trekking team is quite a large outfit as not only the trekker's personal gear needs to be carried but also the group equipment and food. It is likely that there will be three local staff to every trekker. There are many advantages to choosing a camping trek: the control of hygiene in the kitchen is a lot easier on camping treks than in lodges; there is reduced exposure to upper-respiratory ailments (like the infamous 'Khumbu Cough') compared to inside trekker-filled tea-houses; tent camping gives you the freedom to go to bed when you choose and you usually get to have a quiet night, away from the uproar of a lodge; because there are also tents for the sherpas and porters, you do not need to camp near villages and can trek comfortably in remote regions; you provide much needed employment for many local porters. A group camping trek follows a tradition and a routine that trekkers and mountaineers have developed and refined for more than 50 years.