Day 01: Receive you in kathamndu international airport. Then transfer to hotel by private car. If you have time, just couple of hrs time sightseeing around downtown Thamal.
Day 02: Sightseeing in Kathamndu valley:
During this day you will have amazing sightseeing by private car to Swayambhunath stupa, Kopan Gomba, Boudhanath stupa, Kathamndu royal palace ( Hanuman Dhoka Durbar Square)
Day 03: Drive or fly to Pokhara. Hiking around fewa lake. Transfer to hotel around on lake side.
Day 04: Fly to Jomsom (elevation 8900 feet), the administrative centre for the Mustang district to Nepal. You can meet your rest trekking crew there in Jomsom. Trek to Kagbeni. Stay overnight there . (8 miles).
Day 05: Trek to Sangdak village and overnight at camping. Elevation 12,500 feet. (15 miles)
Day 06, 07, 08: We ascend the convoluted Chalung gorge, then climb 400 feet, to 16,800- foot, Sangdak Pass, the eastern entrance to Dolpo. The scenery is magnificent. This has got to be one of the grandest viewpoints in the world. Descending the pass we follow the Thajang Khola to the village of Chharka, 13,500 feet elevation. (25 miles)
Day 09, 10, 11 & 12: From Chharka we climb 3000 feet to Chharka Pass (16,500), then descend into the Keheng Khola. This is one of the most remote regions in Nepal, an area where there could still be the magnificent Marco Polo sheep or the Tibetan wild yak. The landscape is Arctic desert , barren in places with alpine meadows in others. We hike past the very Tibetan villages of Tinje, Shimengaon and Saldang. (50 miles)
Day 13 & 14: Entering Phoksundo National Park, we climb 3000 feet over a 17,300 - foot pass and descend , to famous Shey Gomba, elevation 13,950 feet. We spend a layover day here watching blue sheep, looking for snow leopards and wolves and touring the monastery. (10 miles).
Day 15, 16 & 17: Leaving Shey Gomba we climb 3200 feet over a 17200- foot pass. Views of the 22,000-foot peaks of the Kanjiroba Range are excellent. We descend 5000 feet into the Phoksundo River drainage and work our way along beautiful Phosksudo Lake (12,000 feet). We find ourselves perched on cliffs, high above the lake. If you don’t like heights you won’t enjoy this section. A layover day is planned at the lake. (16 miles)
Ringmo – Sepka 2700m, Sepka – Dunai, 6hrs. Then observes the village, Dunai – Juphal 2 ½ hours. And back packing etc. and Juphal – Nepalganj-Kathmandu by flight
Day 18 & 19: From Phoksundo lake trek descend past the spectacular waterfall draining the lake. Leaving the main route trek follow the Durjam Khola through the village of Pungmo (9600 feet), to the base of Kagmara Pass. Since crossing the last pass we have entered the lusher side of the Himalayas. Beautiful forests of pine, spruce, hemlock and birch are common.(18 miles)
Day 20: Climb 3000 feet to the summit of Kagmara Pass( 16,800). Descend along Kagmara Glacier , 3000 feet to Kagmara Phedi camp. (8 miles)
Day 21 & 22: Descend Garpung Khola 8 miles to Hurikot and the park boundary. Continue down 2 miles to the Bheri River, at 8600 feet elevation. Contour through villages and apple orchards past potato and corn fields, climbing to camp at Mauriya Phedi, elevation 10,200. (20 miles)
Day 23: Ascend steeply, 2300 feet, through forests of pine and oak, across avalanche tracks to Mauriya Pass (elevation 12,500). Views of the snowy peaks to our north and east are exceptional. Descend steeply, 2600 feet, through birch, oak and rhododendron forests to Chotra, elevation 9900 feet (7 miles).
Day 24 & 25: For the next two days we descend the Tila valley through spruce forests, past barely fields and rice terraces, irrigation works and water driven mills, to Jumla, elevation 7700 feet, the administrative centre for the region. (20 miles)
Day 26 & 27: Fly from Jumla - Nepalgunj - Kathmandu . Trip finish.
Day 28: Drop to the kathmandu international airport for your onward flights. |
