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Lower Manasalu Trek

  • 7 Days
    Duration
  • 2980m
    Max Altitude
  • Moderate
    Trip Grade
  • 1-14
    Group Size
  • SEP to FEB & March-JUNE
    Best Season

Trip Highlight

  • Oppertunities to involve the respected mix ghale and gurung people
  • Observe the hilly region People’s culture and life styles.
  • Surrounded by charming surrounded Ghale and Gurung village.
  • Views of Budda Himal from Barpak.
  • Impressive traditional local villages through green hill.
  • Observe the Ghale and Gurung cultures.
  • Picturesque Larpak and Barpak village located in hilly region.
  • Lovely Ganesh Himal and Manaslu view from Nauche and Barpak.
  • Amazing hike through the real Nepal villages.
  •  Involve the Holy temple in Gorkha.
  • Sightseeing in traditional village in Barpak, 17000 hundred houses in same place.
  • Observe the Tibetan lifes styles in high up hilly villages.

Trip Overview

Overview Itinerary

Day 01 - Arriva dayl in Kathmandu and transfer to your hotel

Day 02 - Drive to Gorkha and hike up to Gorkha museum and Gorkha palace with view of the Manasalu

Day 03 - Drive to Gorkha to Barpak village(2120M)-4 hours and Village tour with view of the Budda Himal

Day 04 - Barpak to Mamche (2960M)-3 hours and hike up to Rubi naala valley with view of the Ganesh and Budda and Sarengi Himal,

Day 05 - Mamche to Larpak to single-2300M)-6 hours

Day 05 - Singla to Khorla bensi to Machha khola (1030)-6 hours

Day 06 - Machha khola to Kathmndu (823m)

Day to Day Itinerary

When you arrive at Kathmandu International Airport then you will transfer in your hotel in Kathmandu by a member of the Friendly Nepal. And short briefing will give you concerning the necessary formalities and your trekking plan then you may spend your free time visiting local markets having testy food of Nepal.

Today we are driving to Gorka  Bazzar by Tourist bus or private transport. It take 5 hourse  drive to reach from Kathmandu. Then we tour to Gorkha museum, Gorkha durbar, Kalika temple with  beautiful  mountains . Gorkha  is very  famous district in Nepal , It is rich of the archeologically important,  Naturally beautiful  and  culturally significant with historic palaces, monuments and temples. Gorkha is beautiful  itself with reach of history of  Nepal.  Once when King Drabya  Shah conquered the Gorkha  after the Ligligkot. He then founded the Gorkha Kimdom. The Kimdom was ruled by kings from Drabya shah to Prithivi Narayan Shah, who is considered  to be Nepal 's first prime minister ,was also burn in Gorkha.The unifier of present –day  Nepal.Bhimsen Thapa  The History  of  Gorkha  and Peoples of Nepal  easily observe visiting the Gorkha  museum.

In top of the hills the Gorkha  Durbar is situated with views of the Manasalu range, Dhaulagiri range, Annapurna .The views of the Manaslau is so clear and dramatic from the top of the view point. After looking around the Museum,  Gorkha  Durbar with Kalika temple and View point of the Mountains then slowly we  back to Hotel and over night in Hotel.

we are driving to Barpak village. where more than 1600 houses are in same place The  majority of peoples are Ghale and Gurung.When you reach the Barpak village then you see Buddha Himal in front of village.Mostly peoples are farmers and some of the Ghale and Gurung youth are  Indian army, British army and Nepali Army. Some of the Ghale and Gurung peoples has received Vitoriya cross from Queen II in second world war. It is good chance to see the local peoples and cultures and life style of the country side peoples. Over night in Hotel.

After breakfast we start hike upwards to Mamche (2980m), mostly the trail ascent up to Mamche with the view of the Buddha Himal. It takes  3 hours to reach Mamche from Barpak. When  we reach the mamche then we eat lunch  with view of the Buddha Himal, Ganesh Himal, Siringi Himal and start hike towards to Ruby Nala valley for few hours and back to Hotel. Over nigh in Mamche.

we eat breakfast with the view of the Buddha Himal and Tshum  valley, Ganesh Himal, Siringi Himal. Today the trail start towards Larpak . Leaving hotel in 15 minutes we turn to right side of the trail through  the new settlement  called Larpak Danda. Now the the trail slowly descent down to the River through the one of the biggest village Larpak in 1:30 hours.  when we reach river then we cross the small suspention bridge and trail goes slowly gradual up hill through  narrow and  cliff trail  for 45 minutes then the trail goes  again gradual up to Singla village through narrow and cliff trail.Time to rest and observe the village and life of peoples there.Over night in Hotel.

 

 

We start our walk  slowly descending  east south  for 30 minutes and turn left to way to Khorla besi through the forest,  way is fairly gradual for 1 hours then the trail goes down all the way to Kholabesi.Time to eat lunch and head to Machha Khola. Over night in Hotel.

 

Today we are driving to Kathmandu from Machha Khola by Jeep.It  is little long dive to Kathmandu.When you reach Kathmandu then time to rest or shopping or sightseeing.

 

Includes:


  • International and domestic airport transfers on private jeep or bus.
  • 3 Night Accommodation in 3 stars hotel with breakfast in Kathmandu.
  • Twin-sharing/double bed room in guest house during the trek.
  • Private jeep to trek starting point and  from trek ending point to Kathmandu.
  • English speaking, experienced trekking guide- Trained by Nepal government.
  • Required trekking permits (Annapurna conservation area fee and TIMS card)
  • Porters (2 clients get 1 porter) to carry clients backpack during the trek.
  • Farwell dinner in Kathmandu before your departure.
  • Duffle bag (only for trek) and free T-short for clients.

Excludes:


  • Your international flight tickets fare.
  • Nepal visa (you can apply Nepal visa at Tribhuvan international airport easily)
  • Lunch and dinner in Kathmandu.
  • Beverages such as cold drinks, alcohol drinks.
  • Traver insurance to cover the risk and emergency evacuation.
  • Your Personal trekking gear and equipment.
  • Personal expenses which are not included in package.
  • Tips for guide and porters.

FAQ's

Well experienced local guides and proper mountain porters and well management are main rules to make our customers satisfied. Experiences of the two decades in tourism sector managing their trekking plan and others activities properly to make their ’s dream to bring into the reality according to our customer’s interest, time and trekking areas. We focus on suitable, comfortable and safety plans for our valuable guests to experiences doing mainly trekking, climbing and any tours without ant obstacles. Our team always focus on to provides services to meet our guests ‘s targets, destination and aims in the remote areas of the Himalaya with open heart.

We are easy going local company to manage every single plan for our guests according to their interest. What we say is” GUEST IS GOD”.  We value the guests first in our business. What we have is experienced staffs to manage every single thing easily in proper way. Well experienced field staff such as Guides and helpers/porters are the main back bone to stand among you to provides best services. “COME AS A GUEST GO AS A FRIEND”.

We spent more than two decades supporting to the local people in remote area of Nepal. We always provide proper local guides for the proper trekking area/routes. All guides are trained by Nepal government with some training of the First aids. All field staffs are selected sincerely to make sure you are in right in high mountains. Friendly Nepal team is coordinating to peoples who are scattering on the all over the world. I hope our two-decade working experiences in mountains and management in tourism sector may help you to explore the Nepal with confident with right people!!!

We can rent or hire, most of the trekking gear in Kathmandu/Nepal such as a four-season sleeping bag, Puffy down jackets, Micro pikes, trekking shoes, and others. we help you to hire or rent all required trekking gear before your trekking.

Hired trekking gears are must to keep safely if rented gears found damaged then you need to pay the same coast of the gear. You should keep certain amount of money to rent trekking gears. Normally, Trekking gears shop keep deposit $ 100 USD for a sleeping bag and a Puffy down jacket. Renting charge per day is approx. USD 1.50.

One of the re-presentative from Friendly Nepal treks come with private bus or car to pick you up from Tribhuvan airport and drop you in your guest house. With your details of the international flight and your full name, they will be standing in front of the arrival gate in Nepal airport.

Easily you can recognize the staff from Friendly Nepal treks with their T-Short and your name in holding bord. we always make you sure you are in right destination.

Tourists easily can apply their Nepali Visa upon the arrival in Tribhuvan Airport.  It may take a few 30 minutes because same time a lot of tourists in the same process to obtain the Nepali Visa in Nepal Airport.

What you can do is please fill the all details to apply the Nepali Visa before landing the Tribhuvan Airport.  It help you to obtain visa quicker than usual. You should bring passport photo copy and passport size Photo to apply the Nepali visa in the Nepal Airport.

Trekking in Himalayas are mostly remote. In modern days there are many choices of food menu in every guest house in mountains and serve you proper ordered food. You can enjoy with continental breakfast with fresh fruit as well as lunch and dinner with verities of continental American, Nepali, and Indian foods with hot soups. Most of the food in high mountain supply by helicopter or local porter. Mostly in mountain you get Potatoes items, rice Items, Pasta, Pizza items, breads items and proper vegetables.

Dhal Bhat is the well- known food in Nepal that you get everywhere, Food in mountain cook properly by proper experienced cook.  Local food is mostly organic and grown in same region. So, you can enjoy your trek with proper food in high Himalaya. We suggest you to have local food which are grown locally by local peoples.

You can leave your non-trekking gears in Kathmandu hotel safely. Every Hotel, they have proper safe store room to keep the non-trekking gears for the Hotel guests.

Hotel provides you TAG/receive to make sure that your non trekking gears or others backpack are stored in certain hotel. You get your stored belonging when you want. You no need to pay any money to store your luggage.

Flexibilities are the main prior for our guests.  Just you send us your international flight tickets and passport copy with PP size photo to make all required trekking permit for your booked trek.

If you booked trek for the Everest, Upper Mustang, kanchenjanga, Dolpo region and other remote areas then you should deposit 15 percent ahead of time to manage flight, trekking permits.

1 porter carry 20-25 kg in high Himalaya in trekking. We have weight limit for Porters because they need to carry their backpack too, So, 20 kg per porter is quite limit weight excluding porter bag pack.

Every 2 guests get 1 porter. Porter are main backbone of the trekking. And good supporters.

Mid-winter treks are getting popular in Nepal. And numbers of tourists are increasing in mid-winter. The data of the report of every trekking areas shows that mid-winter trekkers are increasing in good way.

All are related with global warming, and high glaciers are melting unusually. So, number of tourists are trekking in Nepal in mid- winter. However, you need well preparation with right trekking gears to deal with minus temperature.

You get warm and nice hot shower every day if you want. Every guest house they have hot shower service, mostly you get hot shower which runs by electricity or cooking gas.

Per shower, per person cost approx $5 USD. In some trekking region such as Dolpo, Manaslu, Kanchejanga and other remote area them don not have proper hot shower but provide hot buckets water for shower.

We value the safety of yours in mountain or anywhere in Nepal.  So, highly suggested to bring travel insurance to cover mighty accident or if anything went wrong to anybody in unexpected ways in remote trekking route. Travel insurance help you to cover your expenditure if you need emergency rescue from mountain to nearest hospital or treatment in Nepal.

Equally travel insurance give you mentally secure and you will find life is safe with travel insurance.

Safe drinking water is most important to make sure you are in good shape in mountain. We suggest you to get normal drinking water from water tap or gest house and use water purify tablets and wait 30 minute to drink.

Filtering the water from the river or water tap is the also best way to get safe drinking water in trekking but you should come with proper filtering water bottle.

Bottled- water also available to drink but we discourage to use bottled-water to keep environment clean.

We value your goal and always give first priority of what you want. So easily you can customize any trekking area according to you interest, time, we are quite flexible to customize your trekking as your request as can as possible.

Written plan in webpage may not work out for you sometime because of your interest and time or you want to extra days somewhere you like. This is most asked question for us and please feel free and we always customize or make any itinerary according to you interest, time.

Best months for the trekking are the September to Mid-January, which is known as Autumn season and mainly most of the trekkers love to trek during the Autumn because of the beautiful weather and clear days and less chance to get heavy snow in high mountain, Autumn coordinate best weather than others season.

During the Autumn season in high mountain weather would be   sunny with plus temperature and some snow refreshment over 3000m. charming mountains are shine with stunning glacier with lush forest lower down.

Second best months are the February to mid-June, which is known as spring season. During the Spring season trekkers have opportunities to glance the colourful Rhododendron flowers in the elevation of the below 3000m and others alpine flowers blooms in late spring season. Weather would be little windy with some hailstones in hilly region and some snow refreshment in high mountain

Number of solo women- trekkers are trekking in mountain and Nepal is the still safe country for the solo trekkers in mountain. Solo women always safe with Friendly Nepal.

Some exercises are important before the hitting the mountain, everyday running for 1 hour for few weeks, jugging, and Gym and stay active and proper food with high carb as well as jumping.

Hiking up and down every day makes your muscle strong and keep fit your body. Move around your body, push up and down, play food ball, volley ball and other game which gives you physical exercises.

Well mental preparation plays main roles to trek in Himalayas. Be positive with mountains, get enough information regarding the coming trek. And Planning well to get ready to climb up and down.

Depend on where you are going to trek, somewhere in big town they may have ATM machine to draw the money but most of the trekking places in mountain there are not any ATM, So Credit cards is not worth using in mountain.

Make sure getting enough cash with some contingency budget for the trekking.

It cost you depend how much you spend. Approx $ 20-25 USD is quite enough for additional expenditures. You can buy water, chocolates, coffee and Biscuits and others fancy things.

Minus 10 sleeping bags require from September to November and minus 20 sleeping bags require from early December to mid- January). In case of the weather change in high mountain then you get extra banket in additional cost.

You can charge easily your batteries, cell phone, camera in trekking/mountains. When you are in the mountain region the, every guest house have sollar systems to charge you electric equipment, make sure charging your batteries before the sun go down. At least you get chance to charge your batteries, and other electric equipment.

Note: if weather get change in unusual situation then no any charging in high mountains because of the no sun.

Definitely you get enough boiled  or hot water in trekking in the additional cost.In Annapurna, Langtang and Manaslu and mustang, hot water is little cheaper than in Everest , Makalu, Kanchenjang.

It cost you $2 -5 USD per litter for the boil water in trekking.

You should bring passport size photos -4 pieces.

Passport photo copy – 1 Piece.

Your Travel insurance’s Photo copy -1 piece.

Sure, you can extend the trekking days during the trek, just   coordinate with guide and company few days ago you decided.

Some people may like to stay somewhere in nice places more days more than written plan or spend more time in KTM or Pokhara or somewhere.

You can extend your trekking with extra days.

Depend where you are trekking, there are internet services in mountain, If you are trekking in Everest, Annapurna, Langtang, Manaslu and Upper mustang then easily you get internet services in every guesthouses in additional cost.

If you are trekking in far remote areas such as Kanchejanga, Upper Dolpo and Narphu Valleys then internet services are limits.

Risk and Liabilities

  • Avoid the Altitude sickness hiking slow, wearing warm cloths, drinking enough.
  • Make sure having Personal medication for in case of any issue of health.
  • Easily any hiker may get altitude sickness from wrong eating, poor gears.
  • Hikers may get easily dehydred so drink enough treated water, 3-4 LTRs per
  • Always let the guide know in case of feeling sick or anything wrong in mountains.
  • If you loss your belonging by negligences, that might be your responsibilities.
  • Always come with travel insurance which is must important in remore/mountain.
  • Pay attention whilst you are trekking in the gedge of the river, glaciers, high passes.
  • Use trekking pole in the edge of the hill and rivers sides.
  • Make sure having proper trekking gear before the trek.
  • Always keep your valuable dacuments with you.
  • High mountain is always risk of altitude, go slow with adequate water.
  • Do not throw rubbish anywhere. put in proper zone please.

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