Ghorepani – Poon Hill; a short trek in Nepal

Kathmandu arrival. Airport pick up and transfer to Hotel. Room check in and free time depending what time your flight lands in KTM. If there is time, we go for welcome dinner.

After breakfast in the morning board on a privately reserved car or van depending participants in your group and drive to Pokhara. The road condition is not the best one, but OK. The key feature of this drive will be the sceneries of middle hilly part of Nepal. Typical houses with subsidized type of agricultural base can be not difficult to understand seeing things while driving. School running children often greet everywhere. Another major thing you may enjoy taking this drive to is to get the chance of experiencing of White Water Rafting even in this short time. You may try for 2-3 hrs exciting trip at the glacier fed waters – originated from the Langtang Himalayan range at Trishuli River. We can choose the calm waters or a little bit exciting with rapids, depending on your choices. After lunch drive continues and by 4-5 PM arrive in Hotel in Pokhara. Take the room and go for strolling by the lake side area.

Morning breakfast and board on vehicle (car or van depending on the group-size), then drive to Nayapool. Leaving the vehicle, you reach to Birethanti in 30 min – a trek-permit check post. Continuing further thru an under construction road you trek to Hile for 2-3 hrs. Tirkedhunga, a nicer lunch point is about 45 min away from here. After lunch it’s the ascending part along those stone paved steps – for about 2 hrs easy walk to Ulleri. We stay here for the night.

After breakfast in the morning we are ready to begin the day. Yesterday’s harder trail with stone paved steps is only about up to here, so there is an easier trail ahead. It is mostly leveled walk for another an hour and quarter with good backdrop views and sometime Mt. Fishtail’s tip part. Walking further is thru the forest with beautiful alpine atmosphere. Early March there will be maturely bloomed rhododendron almost everywhere making the whole forest reddish or pink! Nage Thanti (about 3 hrs from the lodge) has nicer lunch spots, but Ghorepani is only 50 min away from here. Nange Thanti if busy, then just some kind of snack and continue for Ghorepani should be OK. Check in lodge in Ghorepani, have lunch and enjoy strolling around as this place provides very good view of Mt. Dhaulagiri, Annapurna South etc. O/N with full board.

Early morning visit to Poon Hill. It’s about an hour hike to there and 30 min on return. One of the finest spots for Sunrise scenery as well as a great place for wonderful panoramic view of Himalayan ranges which includes Manaslu in the East to further West of Dhaulagiri includes several beautiful famous snow peaks. Some guide books claim that this spot is one of the best view point in Asia. Spend time as you like, then return to lodge; have breakfast and get ready for day’s trek. Today, you are heading to Tadapani – that is 4-5 hrs trek mixing of all kinds of trails. It means there is easy ascending, descending and also leveled walks. Throughout the day, rhododendron flowers if you are in Spring! From Tadapani, another set of views of up close Annapurna South is dramatic! Overnight at one of the mountain lodges. Full board.

As usual trek begins after breakfast at lodge. Today’s destination is not that far, so many guides call it “lunch camp” which means after lunch there is not trek. We do that too. After lunch we begin a beautiful part of village touring which includes local museums, ACAP office, a school nearby and of course gaze the wonderful Himalayan views following us from many days! O/N in one of the mountain lodges.

We would like to take you a little longer trail which means not following the other guides’ route that is just below the village there is road and drive to Pokhara. Ours bring Pokhara too, but if gives you more time to be in the trekking trail. It is to descend to New Bridge and walk to Siwai. From Siwai, drive to Pokhara. Hotel check in as before and go for Pokhara city excursion which also visits the Davi’s Fall, Guptshwor Cave etc.

If you are thinking to do some more exciting trips here; is possible by going for paragliding, going for Zipline – Zip-flyer etc. Your privately reserved drive back to Kathmandu can be started between 11 to 11:30. It’s a 205 KM drive back same way passing your farting point etc. to Kathmandu. Overnight at hotel as before.

A scenic highway drive to Kathmandu. Interesting sightings by the highway villages, settlements and so on.

You will have free time until the given time to airport for flight back check in. Transfer to airport and fly back home!