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17 Nights and 18 Days (Kathmandu to Kathmandu)
Trip Overview
Highlights
- An opportunity to explore best of Nepal Far North Mid-West Himalaya and hidden valley.
- Adventure in the complete wilderness of high mountains within rural remote villages.
- Tsum Exciting country north of Gorkha district hidden beyond massive Ganesh and Manaslu Himal.
- Walking in less frequented trails away from the main flow of trekkers for more than a week.
- Explore the hidden country of Tsum with its impressive old villages of great cultural interest.
- Experience its ancient culture visiting impressive monasteries intact with old Buddhism religion.
- From warm low land to cool alpine woodland towards arid and barren windswept terrain.
- Exciting drive from with ever-present views of Himalayan peaks around Nepal Mid-West.
Itinerary
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Day 1 On arrival at Kathmandu airport 1,340 m meet our staff and transfer to hotel.
Landing at Kathmandu and Nepal international airport, where our guide or staff receives you
for the short drive to your respective hotels in the hub of Kathmandu. After checking into your nice rooms with rest after a jet lag, then rendezvous with another group member of Tsum Valley Trekking, where our guide/leader will brief you with information regarding the treks, hotels and lodge with Nepalese culture, do’s and don’ts. Evening enjoys grand welcome dinners in typical Nepalese restaurants with various native cultures as entertainment.
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Day 2 At Kathmandu with options for tour with time for trek preparations.
Kathmandu is a free day where one can join in our interesting sightseeing tour as options, as the capital Kathmandu of Nepal is steeped with historical and religious monuments of world heritage sites. Afternoon at leisure and preparation for Tsum Valley trekking, starting next early morning with an exciting overland journey to Nepal Mid-West.
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Day 3 Drive to Soti Khola 730 m via Arughat 570 m - 06 hrs journeys.
Manaslu Trekking starts with an early morning drive to Nepal Mid West, where the journey leads on the main Nepal highway past many interesting towns and villages with farms to reach the Gorkha district in Arughat. From here continue the drive following the raging Buri Gandaki River upstream on warm-low areas of paddy fields and terraces to reach at Soti-Khola for the first overnight stop of the adventure.
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Day 4 Trek to Machha Khola 930 m - 06 hrs.
Begin our first day walks from Soti-Khola, where our route takes you into a steep valley, within thickly forested areas the past number of small villages that dots the green hillside, and then walking into a wide valley opposite near a large tributary stream that joins Buri Gandaki River. Nice views of a cultivated terrace of Lapses upper village as our walk descends to a wide, sandy riverbed following a trail that meanders below a steep, craggy valley side. As the walk progress leading to a climb towards Machha Khola for an overnight stop, a village with a number of tea shops and a small lodge, Maccha Khola means a Fish Stream.
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Day 5 Trek to Jagat - 06 hrs.
From here onward encounter many interesting farm villages and neatly cultivated fields as vegetation changes slowly due to altitude and climate-wise, as our morning walk leads to cross over a stream where Machha Khola (Fish Stream) name comes from, and then walk upstream towards Khola-Bensi village with Tatopani a place with natural ‘ hot spring’
As the walk continues where the valley becomes much narrow and steeper, and our trail switches to the left bank of the river and then crosses a suspension bridge, after a short period of walk entering a patch of forest and then reaching Doban located on the high shelf of Buri Gandaki River.
The journey continues on a broad gravel field towards Lauri stream and then crosses a suspension bridge which leads to a climb on high trails and then descending into the open valley of Yara Khola, where our journey continues for another hour to Jagat for an overnight stop.
Jagat a moderate size farm village people here are of mixed races Magar, Chettries, Brahman, Manaslu Bhatia (Tibetan-looking tribes) and some Newar people lodge owners and shopkeepers.
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Day 6 Trek to Lokpa 2,240 m / 7,349 ft via Philim 1,570 m - 06 hrs.
Walk from Jagat descends to long stone steps to reach a river, where the path climbs on a terraced hillside at Saguleri, with a distance view of Sringi Himal 7,187m, walks continue with ups and down the trail as our route reaches a bridge over Buri-Gandaki.
After crossing over a bridge where our trail winds up to reach Philim village for a short break and to observe this nice farm village with rich cultivated fields and terraces. After a good refreshing stop at Philip, a walk from here leads higher past scattered farm villages.
the climb through terraces of golden fields of wheat and barley, to reach a rocky ridgetop covered by bamboo forest area towards Eklai Bhatti means a lonely Inn, at present few more shops, have been coming up. After a rest walk towards Lokpa, where our route diverts toward North West to reach our overnight stop at Lokpa.
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Day 7 Trek to Chumling 2,386 m - 06 hours.
From entering into fresh new areas, away from the main trekking trails of Manaslu heading into Tsum, the valley of happiness from here walk proceeds past a few small farmlands and scattered villages with views of Ganesh and Manaslu Himal, as our daily walk ends by entering a nice village at Chumming for the overnight halt.
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Day 8 Trek to Chokan-Paro 3,010 m - 05 hours.
A peaceful environment with fresh clean and cool mountain air, where the walk leads much higher gaining elevation slowly as our adventure progress into inner Tsum valley, where our route leads to descent and over a bridge towards Smatiking Khola, with views of Ganesh Himal also called Yangra in the local language of Tibetan origin, and then reaching a fair size village at Chokan- Paro for an overnight stop.
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Day 9 Trek to Nele 3,361 m via Milarepa cave - 07 hours.
From here onward into Tsum valley, where morning walks lead to the highest areas at Nele village within the well-exposed and open wide valley, a dramatic arid and dry country similar to Tibetan landscapes. Where tree lines fade for a few smaller juniper and pine trees, as our journey carries on facing views of the massive Ganesh and Manaslu Himal mountain range, after a scenic and tough, good trek finally ending the day at Nele, on route exploring Guru Milarepa meditation cave a great Buddhist saint with a history of 11 the century, Milarepa a poet, singer as well tantric guru where his folk stories, good words and songs are still remembered by a large number of Tibetans to this day.
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Day 10 Rest day at Nele to explore pristine wilderness.
A complete rest day in this interesting farm village of Nele, where one can witness local culture exploring its traditional and fascinating villages with a strong influence of Tibet customs with the same Buddhist religion and traditional way of life. If not visited an interesting Milereppa holy cave, where on this day can hike to the site on this free day at leisure.
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Day 11 Trek to Mu Gompa 3,700 m - 04 hours
Today a short morning walk to reach the end of the Tsum Valley area at Mu Gompa, an old interesting monastery of the region. A walk leads to a climb within a high and dry country facing views of surrounding high peaks within North, East and West directions, and then slowly walk completes reaching Mu Gompa for an overnight stop. Afternoon enjoys exploring around least visited areas by other trekkers and westerners where you will certainly have a peaceful time and moments around its traditional village with the impressive ancient monastery of Mu Gompa, treasures antique important idols, statues and relics. Mu Gompa will be the highest spot of the trek around Tsum Valley before heading towards Manaslu valley and over Larke-La pass.
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Day 12 Trek to Rachen Gompa 3,240 m - 05 hours.
With interesting times and moments around high Tsum valley, the walk leads to the next monastery of great interest at Rachen Gompa, where the walk leads on a gradual trail with short ups and downs with a lovely panorama of snow-capped peaks, heading through yak herders’ summer pasture to reach Rachen Gompa and its moderate size village for an overnight stop.
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Day 13 Trek back to Chumling 2,386 m - 06 hours.
Return walks after an excellent time around high Tsum valley, where the walk leads to lower areas to reach Chumling where our route leads back within tree lines and green vegetation at Chumling village, for the last and final overnight in the Tsum Valley area.
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Day 14 Trek to Lokpa 2,240 m - 05 hrs.
From here retrace the journey back to Lokpa to join the Manaslu valley route, where the walk leads further down leaving behind Tsum the valley of happiness, the good walk continues facing grand views of mountains and surrounding dramatic landscapes all the way to Lokpa for an overnight stop.
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Day 15 Trek to Philim village 1,590 m - 06 hrs.
The morning walk leads with some down section entering into sheer cliff walls, after leaving the dramatic areas to walk continues to reach the main trail of Manaslu, as our route leads further south direction to reach a warmer farm village at Philip, an interesting place for an overnight stop, a village with spread out houses with immense farming crops and vegetables.
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Day 16 Trek to Tatopani village with Hot Spring-06 hrs.
After a lovely overnight at Philm village, where the morning walk leads following the Buri Gandaki river downstream, on the same trail of previous past days on the way up to Tsum as our route leads to further descent reaching low sub-tropical area at Tatopani a village with natural fresh hot- spring. Here enjoy refreshing moments in natural hot springs with time to explore the farm villages.
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Day 17 Trek to Soti Khola 730 m - 06 hrs.
From this nice village with a hot spring walk continues on near-level trails following the raging river downstream encountering many farm villages and into a patch of the forest of oaks and Sal trees to reach our last overnight stop and then end of the walk at Soti-Khola village.
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Day 18 Drive back to Kathmandu and transfer to hotel with free afternoon.
After a marvellous adventure on Tsum Valley, completing our scenic walks by taking a morning drive from Soti-Khola, where the ride leads to Arughat town and then heading towards a hilly road around Dhading district to reach the main highway at Maleku near Trisuli River. From this town an exciting smooth journey to Kathmandu, where the drive leads past many farm villages and towns to reach back into hustle and bustle of the city life of Kathmandu, with the rest of the afternoon free at leisure.
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Day 19 International departure for homeward bound.
After a wonderful time in Nepal with an amazing time in the high Himalayan mountains around beautiful Tsum Valley Trekking, your last day in the country of awesome adventures where our staff and guide transfer you to the airport for your flight back home or to the next port of call.
What's Included
- Airport and hotel transportation by private vehicle in Kathmandu as per our itinerary suggested.
- 3 Night accommodation in Kathmandu with breakfast .
- City guided tour in Kathmandu valley
- Welcome dinner in Kathmandu (Alcoholic beverages are excluded).
- Private vehicle Kathmandu to Sotikhola and Sotikhola to kathmandu.
- Tsum Valley trek Full board meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea & coffee) in during the trek Seasonal fresh fruits during the trek are provided
- Nice & clean accommodation on tea-house/mountain lodges during the trek
- Government trained trekking guide (well English speaking, First Aid and eco trained), Sherpa porter (one porter for two trekkers).
- Necessary paper works, Tsum Valley entry fee and permits & TIMS card.
- Down jacket, per seasonal sleeping bag Heaven Nepal Adventure duffel bag, t-shirt, and trekking map.
- Down jacket and sleeping bag are to be returned after your trip completion and First aid exclusive medical kit bag.
- All government and local taxes.
- Farewell dinner with Heaven Nepal Adventure official staff.
- International departure homeward bound.
Included
- International Airfare/Visa (you bring accurate USD cash and two passport size photographs).
- Lunch and dinner in Kathmandu & Pokhara except for welcome & farewell dinner (and also in the case of early return from the mountain than the scheduled plan)
- Any extra night accommodation in Kathmandu because of early arrival, late departure, and early return from the mountain (due to any reason) than the scheduled itinerary plan
- Travel and rescue insurance
- Personal trekking Equipment Personal expenses e.g. phone calls, laundry, bar bills, bottle or boiled water, shower
- Tips for driver, guides and porters Cost arising out of landslides, road blockade, and rescue of any form or reasons beyond our control
- Any other extending trips
- Any other expenses are not mentioned on the 'Service Included' section.
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Equipment List
Usefull Information
Faq
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Is it worth Tsum Valley trekking?
It all depends upon one interest, Tsum Valley a great place on least ventured areas a nice adventure for travellers seeking best of the scenic areas within pristine wilderness, away from mainstream trekking trails. A moderate and adventurous where eager people with time in Nepal can join in this marvellous walks to Tsum Valley around far North Mid-West Nepal Himalaya.
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How tough is the walk Tsum Valley Trekking?
Depending upon how you take it, you must be aware that Nepal and all Himalayan countries a hilly and mountainous area, where much of the walk leads to ups and down with some gradual winding trail to cope. However, on this trek which is similar to other Himalayan walks, the only long and steep climb is going up the pass, and then with a long stretch of downhill, the walk is not that tough and hard as it looks. We have maintained the walking itinerary days to suit all types of people with moderate walking duration.
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What are the religion and cultures that we can witness?
Around low areas of Nepal Mid West a mixture of Buddhist with more Hindu people of Brahmin-Chettries-Dalits and Magar tribes, as walk leads higher region of Tsum Valley dominated by people known as Bhatia’s of Tibetan origin with same Buddhist culture and religion. On this trek around higher Tsum valley, where you can witness fascinating culture and traditional farm life of hill people visiting its monasteries and villages of great interest with grand views and scenery.
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How many people will be in the group?
From the minimum 3-4 person in the group with a maximum of 10-15 persons in the group, in some cases we do allow booking for a single person as well, running independently at extra cost than in groups.
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How is the weather on Tsum Valley trekking?
As per the season wise, where the best time is from March-May when most of the day is clear with minimum temperatures of 0° to 20° Celsius depending upon the altitude and areas. Where most of the morning till mid-days clears for views and walks, sometimes afternoon can get overcast with chances of light rains and snow. March to May will be lively with wild-flowers in full bloom especially various species of rhododendron (national flower of Nepal) from trees to short bushes.
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How are the lodge and Tea-House on Treks?
Tea-House the word used in early days when there were smaller numbers of lodges on route trekking, at present each village has more than 10 to 20 good lodges with pleasant rooms accommodations. serving excellent food menus as per the season wise. Higher above 3,000 m lodges are fine and basic due to freezing cold temperatures in night and morning time where they have toilets on the outside, with some inside as common bathrooms and restrooms. All rooms and dining with warm heating and cosy facilities to make your stay much pleasant and enjoyable. As for Tsum valley are due to its remoteness with less number of visits where the lodge is very basic and simple. Sometimes using local houses as Home Stay inn, where lodges are not available on route higher areas of Tsum valley.
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Are there electricity and network for cell-phones?
Most of the places do have electricity on route trekking run by hydro-power after Jagat and Lokpa, where much of electric supply are private and individual of the lodge owners with sun / solar power to activate electric just for the lodge and as well for customers to charge their computers and cell-phones. Some places do have networks for cell phones and as well for internets like Wi-Fi above Chumling and some areas due to high peaks and hills, the networks are disturbed in deep areas like around river gorge areas. At present nearly all people in Nepal including remote villages do have an assist to cell-phones with fine network connection only in bad weather the line can be broken, otherwise it is fine in working order.
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What happens if some is sick and have to break the trek?
In this situation where our guides are well equipped with knowledge for emergency and medical purpose, depending upon the seriousness of the victims if it is much critical where nearest medical attention needed, we call for immediate evacuation for Helicopter services to reach the victims to nearest medical station and hospital. For light AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness), resting and drinking enough fluid leaving an extra guide to take care of sick clients till he/she recovers on route treks or help them to descend to safer areas and taking an advance flight back to Kathmandu.
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How are foods and hygiene during treks and lodges on route?
Meals are prepared according to your choice of menu items, all foods are carefully prepared with much hygiene concern, avoiding from complaints and reputation of the lodges, as they have been serving for more than two decades to worldwide travellers.
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I came to know that some people could get sick while on treks why?
Well hearing rumours and seeing for your own self is a different picture, to be honest, some people are not used to Asian and spicy foods, that’s why people could get sick with the change of diets as well. To be on the healthy side before and after the treks is to get advice from your guides what will be the best food to consume while on treks, we strongly suggest staying away from meats items in the first place, as it is not hygienic could be stale meat of a week time or more. If you go with a vegetarian for sometimes will be the best options to stay healthy till you get immune to the local environment and culture.
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What types of medication should I bring from home for the trek?
In our list we always mention general medication to bring from home as well from your doctor advice also, your doctor might recommend you some basic medication list like medicine against diarrhoea, headache, fever, cold-flu as well constipation including first aid for cuts-wounds and burns as well. In every trip of ours, we carry comprehensive medical kits which will be carried by our trekking staff, guides or group leader for common use if required as for your own personal illness, where you doctors might have recommended some medicine to carry with you.
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What are the major factors and precaution one should take care on treks?
Always abide by the rules of the company and guides/leader, most of the main sickness is stomach disorder due to change in foods and culture shocks. If people have travelled in Asia countries and know the food well will be not a problem. Other factors might leads to altitude sickness known as AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness) which can happen to any people if they are not careful by walking fast in higher elevation and might catch the symptoms of AMS. We have designed the itinerary days where people can acclimatize well with rest days in a couple of high places before reaching much higher to our goal and highlights. Some people might take Diamox pills, which is often used as high altitude pills, should consult the doctors before taking the right dose, which helps to regulate the flow of blood systems from getting clots in high altitude. Where drinking plenty of fluids, water-juice and rehydration drink including black warm tea also helps and taking much rest after getting tired.
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Best Seasons March-May & September-December -
Group Size 2+ -
Duration 18 Nights/ 19 Days (Kathmandu to Kathmandu) -
Maximum Altitude 3,800 m -
Trek Difficulty Moderate -
Accommodation On Lodge/Tea House
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Transportation By Private Jeep
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