Trip Facts
- 4364m/14230ft
- Jeep-Car
- Minimum 02
- Tea House
- Somewhat Active
- Kathmandu
- Kathmandu
- Autumn (March to May) & Autumn (Aug to Nov)
- In Person
- Freshwater Lake Trek
- Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner
- English/Chinese/Hindi
- 5
- 78
Gosaikunda Lake is famous as a religious place; as once every year, this lake observes a mass gathering for the festival of Janaipurnima. This is the birth day of Gautam Buddha. Apart from the religious belief and diversified people along the trekking trail of Gosaikunda trekking trail, landscape of this short trek is outstanding.
Landscape of Gosaikunda trekking is not just wide range of mountains, but also never ending zenith line and deep river valley. As Gosaikunda trek is a straight uphill trek, often you will get above the clouds and no tre zone in 2nd day trek, itself.
Gosaikunda trekking will offer you the adventure you want, you will be trekking through an straight uphill trail where the trail will be under jungle and of course views of snow-capped mountain ranges.
Gosaikunda is an easy trekking from where you can collect lots of experience in Nepal and doesn’t need more effort. Gosaikunda trekking is also known for short-days trekking in Nepal from where you can save your time a lot. Don’t miss a chance to explore the sacred holy lake of Nepal. NEPALGRAM ADVENTURE is ready for you to make your trip more enjoyable and comfortable.
They also believe that once you take a bath from the water of Gosaikunda Lake your pain and sorrows from your life will be apart. Gosaikunda Lake is also renowned as the name of frozen lake.
As a solo trekker, you will have enough time to take break or wait and watch anything you may like.
We will provide you the Gosaikunda Trekking package in a reasonable price. Feel free to contact us if you are interested in Gosaikunda Trekking.
Gosaikunda lake Trekking vs. Mini Gosaikunda lake trek
There are 2 lakes named Gosaikunda in the Rasuwa district of Nepal. Both of these destinations to holy lake in Langtang region commence their trekking from the town of Dhunche Bazzar. Dhunche is also the capital of Rasuwa District.
However, mini Gosaikunda is not as famous as Gosaikunda Lake, religiously and scenically.
- Physical Requirements/ Gosaikunda lake Trek Difficulty
Mini Gosaikunda Lake is a day trip from Dhunche Bazar whereas Gosaikunda Lake is 2 day hike from Dhunche. With that being said, Mini Gosaikunda is an easy walk. From the town of Dhunche people take local jeep to trekking start Point of Mini Gosaikunda Lake and after 4 hours walk you will get to this small Gosaikunda Lake. From the lake, you can see the mountains and the valley of Herung river valley.
In regard to Gosaikunda Lake, it is a straight uphill walk for 2 days to get to the top of the Gosaikunda Lake. After starting trek from Dhunche to Gosaikunda Lake, trail is straight uphill through the dense forest. The trail to Gosaikunda Lake is straight uphill till we get to Chandanbari. Chandanbari is also called Sing Gompa.
After getting to Singh Gompa, the Gosaikunda trail is flat till Cholanpati and then again a straight uphill all the way to Buddha Mandir. Soon after leaving 2 small tea houses of Cholangpati, the trekking trail will get in no tree line zone. This section of Gosaikunda lake trek is mesmerizing. One side of the trail has view of wide Himalaya range including; Mt Langtang, mt Manaslu, mt Ganesh and many other. Whereas the other side view is a deep river valley. Sunset seen on this valley side of Gosaikunda is awful.
- Scenery
In case of Mini Gosaikunda trek, short trekking trail has small jungle walk exploration. You will be able to see the scenery of Langtang Himalaya range and Deep River Valley of Kerung River, which comes all the way from the Chinese boarder.
Whereas, in the trek of Gosaikunda lake trek, jungle trek, wider range of mountains and deep river valley are outstanding. In Gosaikunda trek, you will be able to see the stunning sunset on Mt Manaslu. Mount Manaslu is a eight thousand meter high mountain which is in distance but distinguished. During the trekking you will also get an opportunity to explore Buddha Temple, the local community and diverse landscapes.
Gosainkunda Trek Outline Itinerary- 7 Days
- Day 1 – Arrival at Kathmandu and Nepali way of welcome on you visit to Nepal
- Day 2 – Drive to Dhunche with scenic view of Mt Langtang Lirung on approaching Dhunche
- Day 3 – Trek to Chandanbari – an uphill challenge with jungle walk and beautiful mountain view
- Day 4 – Trek to Gosainkunda – beautiful trek with scenery of the mountains all the way to Buddha temple
- Day 5 – Sunrise hike to Gosainkunda view point and trek down to Dhunche – same trail but different prospective
- Day 6 – Drive to Kathmandu
- Day 7 – Good morning tour and Departure in the evening
Gosainkunda Trek Itinerary
• Altitude – 1350 meters
• Special – Happening Thamel street
• Time – 30 minutes hotel transfer time
• Activity – Relax at the hotel
• Altitude – 1940meters
• Special – Mt Langtang lirung an approaching view
• Time – 7 hours by land
• Activity – Travel overland and watch the people and scene
• Altitude – 3340 meters
• Special – Singgompa an old Buddhist monastery
• Time – 7 hours hike
• Activity – Trekking in the jungle
• Altitude – 4364m/14230ft
• Special – View of the mountains till Buddha temple, Many lakes
• Time – 6 hours trek
• Activity – Sunset view from the tea house of by the lake
• Altitude – 5100meters
• Special – wide view of the snow capped mountains + Lakes
• Time – 4 hours
• Activity – Sunrise hike to the summit of Gosainkunda view point
• Altitude – 1350 meter
• Special – View of the mountains, local people & Landscape from the bus
• Time – 8 Hours
• Activity – Drive back to Kathmandu with beautiful memories
• Special – Half day tour in the morning will give straight introduction of local life in Kathmandu from shopping to religious activity they do in different temples at Kathmandu durbar square premises, asan, indrachwok, sankata temple and many other temples.
• Time – 2 hours guided tour
• Activity – Walking tour in local way with local guide.