Round Annapurna Trek - 17 Days

Welcome to Nepal! Our representative will be waiting you at the airport (either with you Name printed on Paper or with Hording board of Nepalgram). Representative will help you check in to your respective hotel and let you know the meeting time for Round Annapurna Trek preparation and the next day activity.

Guided sightseeing tour of Kathmandu valley includes 4 major monuments from 13th to 18th century old. Tour guide licenses from Nepal government will take you in private vehicle. Sightseeing tour is a full day activity. After the tour we will have pre trek meeting where we will discuss about the Round Annapurna Trek and it’s your expectations and our reality.

8 hours’ drive (approx.) to Besisahar is in one of the busy Highway of Nepal. Besisahar is a big town at the entrance of Round Annapurna Trekking trail. This town is the market for all the food and beverage we going to get up there. After getting to the town Besishar, we will hike for an hour to nearest village Bhulbule and spend night there. Now days due to road construction all the way to Manang, we try to walk from the new trail constructed by the local tourism stake holders.

Bhulbule is a small village on the side of river; we will have our first mountain breakfast at this place and hike towards Chyamje. Today’s hike will be approx. 8 hours. We hike up to Bahundada and down to river again, before we get to Chyamje village. This trail avoids the road and takes us through the villages.

Chamje with a stunning view of waterfall will well spend your stay. After breakfast at Chamje we need to walk for approx. 10 hours to get to Chame village. Most of the walk today is on the road. So you and your guide are free to decide either to walk all the way to Chame or take jeep. Chame is headquartering Manang district. Welcome to Manang!

Chame to manag is beautiful hike on the riverside. Even though walking on road has scenic view of the river Valley and the Mountains. Pisang has two major villages, one on high land called upper Pisang and another Lower Pisang. We will stay at Lower pisang and go for side hike to upper Pisang. Upper Pisang gives good view of the mountains and Lower Pisang village. Upper Pisang also has Buddhist temple. This hike will help you to acclimatize.

There are two options to hike today, if you go from Ngawol this is uphill walking for a while and walk down to Manang village. If you choose it to be easy day go on the road. If you are in the high season of trekking in Nepal, dusty road might be annoying but the scenery is great. Walking into the jungle, towering mountains on both sides is nice walk in the middle of the valley.
If you take upper trail, it has a magnificent view of Annapurna range and the river valley just beneath you. Trail is narrow through the jungle, very few tea houses in between villages; you will have a remotely access in here. This trail also avoids the road network in Round Annapurna Trek.

Manang is small village on the side of river. This village is near to Gangapurna Glacial Lake, thus it is a famous photo spot for trekkers. We will spend two nights at this place for ACCLIMATIZING for the altitude to gain in next two days. Acclimatization hike includes one of the viewpoints. Gangapurna Lake is very near to this village, nice enough to spend the entire day, you want to spend easy day at the tea house? Choose the lake not the guest house.

Manang to Ledar has great view of the surrounding mountains. We will split with people doing Tilicho Lake at this point. View of Annapurna, Gangapurna, Tilicho peak, Chulu peak is amazing on today’s hike. After Manang there is no road, we will have even nice energy in the remote. Enjoy the sightseeing of few wild animals today, blue sheep and mountain goats are likely to see.

No tree zone starts already from Manang village, but once we get to Ledar terrain look fantastic. No tree, small bushes and yak grazing on those fields looks amazing. Today’s walk is above 4000 meters, so walk slowly in your pace. Soak yourself in the nature, silence and those stunning mountains.
Rock fall zone starts right after the suspension bridge be cautious in this section. We will take break at Phedi (translates to Base camp in English), after lunch at Phedi it is 2 hours hike uphill to the High camp. We are near to highest point of the Round Annapurna Trek.

Thorongla pass day begins early in the morning. We will have lots of breaks before the pass; do not forget to drink enough. Make sure you have right gears for snow and cold wind. Thorongla is not hard pass but definitely the high pass. If you are doing Round Annapurna Trek in winter, chance of getting lost is high; stick with your group.
Congratulation for your achievement, this is a matter of proud-ness for you to get to this altitude. Once you get to the top of Thorong-la, quick descend begins with wide spectacular view of Dhaulagiri range the other side. Round Annapurna Trek is towards the conclusion from this point. Muktinath has a temple which is common among Buddhist and Hindu’s. Visit the temple, you will not regret.

You will feel like being at Tibet toady. Landscape is spectacular towards Lo Manthang road. Brown hills right in front of snowcapped mountains are admiring view for today’s hike. Upper mustang trekking trail splits at this point. We will walk on the road and take few shortcuts to avoid the road. More chance of heavy wind and dust, get ready with wind stoppers and goggles.

Most of the trekking trail is spoiled by new road construction in this section. So we take bus to tatopani and stay overnight. Tatopani has hot spring. You can celebrate your successful Thorong pass with chilled beers and natural hot spring.

After breakfast at Tatopani, we hike towards Sikha village. After Shikha road ends and the nature begins. Lots of steps walking all the way up to Ghorepani will make your day tiring but damn beautiful. Walking through the rhododendron forest is a best thing to do during spring.

After Sunrise hike to Poonhill, we will have breakfast at the guest house and walk down to Ulleri village. Lunch at Ulleri and hike all the way to driving point is a long downhill walk. Pokhara is famous as a Lake city. We sleep in one of the hotel in Lake Side, Phewa lake is very close by Lake side. Like at Thamel, Lake Side has night life, enjoy your night here.

Drive from Pokhara to Kathmandu pass through lots of paddy fields and bunch of villages. There will be 3 breaks for food during 8 hours’ drive to Kathmandu.

Our vehicle will drop you the airport. Time has come to say you farewell with promise to meet again. Have a nice trip.