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Nepal does not happen to you all at once

It happens one glass of tea at a time. A bell on a mule at 3,400 m. A stranger's kitchen with the door left open. A grandmother who hands you the first bowl before she serves her own family. We plan trips so those moments have room to happen.

Plan my trip How we think

Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

A note from the desk

Most people arrive in Nepal with a list. Everest. Pokhara. A tiger, if the luck holds. The list is fine. But ask anyone who has come home from here what they talk about at dinner, and it is rarely the list.

It is the porter who sang in the rain. The monk who laughed at their photograph. The dal bhat that tasted like the best meal of their life, because they had walked six hours for it. The moment the cloud lifted and nobody on the trail said a word.

We build trips around that. Not around more sights, but around the hours in between them: the rest day where the village comes to you, the early start that gets you to the temple before the tour buses, the festival we move your dates to catch.

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How we think

We count in metres, not in sights

Nepal climbs from 59 m in the Terai to 8,849 m at the summit of Everest. Your body, your mood and your photographs all follow that line.

0 – 300 m · TeraiWarm mornings, sal forest, rhino countrySleep deep, walk easy, look for the tiger's paw prints at dawn.
1,000 – 2,500 m · PahadTerraces, old towns, tea on the verandaThe middle hills, where most of Nepal lives and where most of our trips begin.
2,500 – 4,000 m · LekhPine, pasture, the last fieldsThe air thins. The days get shorter and the evenings get warmer, around a stove.
4,000 m and above · HimalIce, moraine, prayer flags in the windWhere we never hurry you. A rest day here is not a day lost, it is the reason you get to the top.

So every plan we send shows where you sleep, how high, and what the air will be like. You can see the whole journey as a line before you ever pay for it. Nepal by height

What we believe

Four promises we keep to every traveller

Slow is a kindness

Rest days, short stages and a sleeping height that rises gently are not extras. They are how a tired body becomes a happy one, and how you end the trip wanting more.

Numbers are respect

Permits, flights, stays and porter wages sit on separate lines in a written quote. You see what each part costs and who it pays. No payment to start, and no surprises later.

The people are the story

Newar, Sherpa, Tharu, Thakali, Gurung, Tamang, Rai, Limbu. We write down their words and their festivals, and we choose licensed guides who belong to the places they take you.

A place keeps its own pace

We plan around festivals, not over them. If a road closes for a chariot or a village is fasting for a week, we tell you early and build the trip with it, not against it.

What a good day looks like

Three hours we plan a trip around

5:40 am

The lake before the town wakes

A rowing boat slides out on Phewa while the water is still flat. The Annapurna range turns pink, then gold. Someone presses a glass of milk tea into your hands before you ask.

1:00 pm

A teahouse kitchen above the river

The saying on every trail is that dal bhat gives you power for twenty-four hours. It comes with refills of the dal, and a cook who watches your plate until it is empty, and smiles when it is.

7:30 pm

A courtyard lit by oil lamps

In an old Newar town the day ends in a courtyard that has hosted evenings like this for centuries. Somebody brings out juju dhau, the king curd of Bhaktapur, and the conversation lasts longer than the lamps.

In our own words