Trip Briefing
- Duration: 17 Days
- Rating:Very Popular
- Grading:Semi hard
- Region:Annapurna region
- Activity: Trekking
The walk in to the Sanctuary provides a taste of the great variety of landscape types which serve to make Nepal such a special trekking destination. Starting out at Phedi, we encounter sub-tropical heat, pretty villages and neatly terraced rice fields. Gaining height gradually, we enjoy several days of pleasant ridge walking with a mix of abundant forest and scattered areas of farmed land. Finally, beyond the last of the bamboo and rhododendron woodland, the valley narrows at the entrance to the world of ice and snow that is the Annapurna Sanctuary. Throughout the approach, there are always outstanding panoramas of the high peaks to the north and the contrast of the rice-fields and villages with the snow peaks above, making for very picturesque trekking indeed. We have allowed a day for exploration above our base camp in the Sanctuary. To increase the appeal of this excellent trekking itinerary, we take an alternative route to the Sanctuary, turning westwards to follow a high ridge which leads to Ghorepani and a viewpoint overlooking the great rift of the Kali Gandaki Valley, the deepest gorge in the world. From Poon Hill above Ghorepani the dawn views of Dhaulagiri and nearby Tukuche Peak are legendary.
Itinerary:
- Day 1: Arrival at Kathmandu. Meet assist and transfer to hotel.
- Day 2: Preparation and briefing of the trekking.
- Day 3: Drive: KTM-Pokhara by tourist bus - Overnight at Hotel
- Day 4: Drive: Pokhara - Phedi and trek to Dhampus (1650m).
- Day 5: Trek to Landrung (1565m).
- Day 6: Trek to Chomrong (2170m).
- Day 7: Trek to Himalaya Hotel (2920m)
- Day 8: Trek to Machapuchare base camp (3700m).
- Day 9: Explore around to Annapurna Sanctuary (4095m) - trek to Dobhan (2600m)
- Day 10: Trek to Chomrong.
- Day 11: Trek to Tadaliani (2630m)
- Day 12: Trek to Ghorepani ((2860m)
- Day 13: Visit Poon Hill (3193m) and trek to Ulleri (1960m)
- Day 14: Trek to Nayapul and drive to Pokhara - Overnight at Hotel
- Day 15: Drive back to Kathmandu by tourist bus
- Day 16: Free day at Kathmandu
