Poon Hill Ghandruk Loop Trek is one of the best short trek of Nepal, which offers the breathtaking views of high mountains and many more snow covered peaks.

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Trip Code #: MAI-PG-08


Duration 10 Days

Poon hill Ghandruk Loop Trek is one of the best short trek of Nepal, which offers the breathtaking views of high mountains from Poonhill such as Mt. Annapurna (8091m) Mt. Dhaulagiri (8,167m) and many more snow covered peaks.

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Overview

Poon hill Ghandruk Loop Trek is one of the best short trek of Nepal, which offers the breathtaking views of high mountains from Poonhill such as Mt. Annapurna (8091m) Mt. Dhaulagiri (8,167m) and many more snow covered peaks. Settlement of Gurung and Magar community. Ghandruk the traditional Gurung Village, the home land of Gurkhas, offer the unique culture and mesmerizing view of Mt. fishtail (6993m). Poonhill Ghorepani Trek offers Big Rhododendron forest entire the whole route is the home of more than 60 different species of rhododendron, different colorful butterfly and birds. Beside this Pokhara city and its Natural, historical and religious place are also the attraction of this trip. If you have one more extra day you can also visit Sarangkot, and enjoy the world famous paragliding.

Settlement of Gurung and Magar community. Ghandruk the traditional Gurung Village, the home land of Gurkhas, offer the unique culture and mesmerizing view of Mt. fishtail (6993m). Poonhill Ghorepani Trek offers Big Rhododendron forest entire the whole route is the home of more than 60 different species of rhododendron, different colorful butterfly and birds. Beside this Pokhara city and its Natural, historical and religious place are also the attraction of this trip. If you have one more extra day you can also visit Sarangkot, and enjoy the world famous paragliding.

Highlights of the trek

  • Massif Annapurna Mountains range with some of the world's highest Mountains.
  • Mt. Dhaulagiri (8,167 m ), Mt. Manaslu (8,156 m ) Mt. Annapurna (8,091m ).
  • Huge and colorful Rhododendron forest.
  • Different colorful butterfly and birds.
  • Unique and rich culture of different indigenous group such as Magar, Gurung and Thakali.
  • Legendary Gorkha’s home village.
  • Welcoming locals and mesmerizing landscape. 

Arrival City Kathmandu
Departure City Kathmandu
Duration 10 Days
Trekking Days 5 Days
Difficulty Easy - Medium
  • Easy

    “Nepal Mountaineering Easy”

  • Easy

    “Nepal Mountaineering Easy”

  • Easy

    “Nepal Mountaineering Easy”

  • Easy

    “Nepal Mountaineering Easy”

Max Elevation 3210m/10531ft
Primary Activities Trekking & Sightseeing
Trip Route

Kathmandu, Pokhara, Ghorepani, Poon Hill, Ghandruk

Includes

  • Airport arrival departure.
  • Normal nice hotel accommodation in Kathmandu – 3 nights – twin share basis in BB Plan.
  • All necessary land transport as per the itinerary.
  • Tea house trekking with Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and accommodation.
  • Water purification liquid during trekking.
  • 1 night hotel in Pokhara in normal nice hotel in BB Plan.
  • Porter to carry the luggage and his salary.
  • Trekking permit.
  • Annapurna Conservation area Project (Acap) permits.
  • First aid kit.
  • Farewell dinner.
  • City tour guide, permit and transportation in kathmandu.
  • Insurance for Nepali staffs.

Excludes

  • Lunch and dinner in Kathmandu and pokhara
  • Drinking water, Beverages and alcoholic drinks
  • Emergency medical evacuation
  • Tips for staffs
  • Personal expenses and extra services beyond itinerary

ITINERARY

Our staffs will be at airport to pick up you to the Hotel. Introduction with guide and short briefing about the trek.

Early in the morning drive to Pokhara by tourist bus. It takes around 7 hours from Kathmandu to Pokhara. Same day drive to Birethanti on private van. Birethanti is the commence point of your trek.

Wake up around 6 am in the morning. After breakfast prepare your baggage and ready to move. It takes around 5 hours to reach Ulleri.Lunch will arrange on the way

Wake up around 7 am in the morning. Have your breakfast and ready to move towards Ghorepani. It takes around 4 hours to reach Ulleri. Lunch will arrange on the way. After dinner our guide will give you the wake up time for next morning

Wake up early in the morning and ready to move Poonhill. It takes around 1 hour to reach the top of the Poonhill, which offers the breathtaking view of Mt. Dhaulagiri (8,167 m), Mt. Manaslu (8,156 m) Mt. Annapurna (8,091 m) and many more snow covered mountains. It is also the best place for sunrise view, which changes the shining silver mountains into golden. After spending around 1 hour in Poonhill descent down to Ghorepani. Have your breakfast and start to trek towards Tadapani

Ghandruk is the typical Gurung village with thatched roof made of up rock. It is the village of Great Gorkha soldiers. It takes around 3 hours to reach Ghandruk. Ghandruk offers the nice view Mt. Fishtail (6,993 m).

Today is the last day of the trek. After Breakfast descend down to Saulibazar and drive to Pokhara. Enjoy your free time in Lakeside Pokhara in the evening.

Early in the morning process to tourist bus park/ private and drive back to Kathmandu.

In the morning after having breakfast we begin tour around Kathmandu with professional English speaking guide. During the day you will cover some of the historical and religious, world heritage sites like;

Swoyambhunath –“the Self Existing One’. The oldest Buddhist stupa of Nepal situated in the small hill, from where you can see the nice view of Kathmandu valley. Historian believes that it is the oldest history of Kathmandu. No sooner you enter the periphery of Swoyambhunath you will see the monks, chanting religious words and monkeys chattering and hanging around the different temple and trees. It is also known as monkey temple, especially given by the tourist.
Bouddha nath Stupa: the ancient stupa of Boudhnath is one of the biggest Buddhist stupa of Nepal, situated in the northern part of Kathmandu valley, which is one of the trading routes of Nepal with Tibet in ancient time. Tibetan merchants used to take rest and offers praying in this place during their trading time. Later when Tibetan refugees enter Nepal in 1950s, most of them decided to stay around the same place. Even now most of the monk in Boudhanath is from Tibet. Around the stupa you can see some Buddhist painting school of traditional paints “Thanka”.
Pashupatinath Temple: Pashupatinath the national deity of Nepal is one of the most significant Hindu temples of Lord Shiva in the world, located on the banks of the Bagmati River in the eastern part of Kathmandu. The word Pashupatinath is derived from three Sanskrit words: “pashu” means organism, “pati” means protector, and “nath” means Lord. Hence in Hindu mythology Pashupatinath means protector and Lord of all living things. The bank of Bagmati River is the cremation center of Hindu dead body. Where you can see the cremation process of Hindu people. Beside this you can see the color full sadhu ‘the holy devotee of Lord Shiva’ around the periphery of temple.

Your guide will visit you in the hotel for your farewell. We will provide you car for airport drop.

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Our Fixed Departure Dates

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TRAIN YOURSELF

Qualification/Training

Best physical condition is required to do trekking in Nepal in high altitude. Lots of up down includes while doing trekking. We suggest running, walking, hiking in the hill, climbing stairs rather than elevator to prepare for the trek. Include swimming, rowing, biking in your daily base training.

Basic further Experience to do Trekking

  • One should be able to hike for 6-7 hours a day.
  • One should be able to carry 8 kg themselves on backpack for preparation.
  • We suggest you to run about 3/4 miles in home for the preparation with some load on your back for 1  month to make yours trekking much more easier. Or use treadmill for everyday running and walking.
  • If you have uphill location/mountain then once a week you should go to hike with load packed bag pack. If you do not have mountain and high hills then use stairs to go up/down than elevator.
  • Do regular swimming, biking, rowing for additional training

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WHY BOOK WITH MEGA ?

Because of the following reason your trip will be special with us.

MAI is a government register, legally authorized agency, run by the expertise on a responsible way.

Being a local agency our cost, are always reasonable and fully covered all services that are mentioned in our packages, we always believe on transparency and there are no any hidden cost in our packages.

You can prepare well, only if you have right and proper information of your forthcoming events. Our travel experts always provide you proper info of your interested trip and communicate with you instantly with your queries, we will share all the fact of the places, where you are going to visit and guide you to prepare accordingly. We will show you the clear verbal trip, before you travel physically.

You can’t be responsible unless you are on a responsible hand. We always operate our trip in a responsible way. We give job to local guides and porters, we always focus on local products and encourage and assist you to travel without any carbon footprint.Beside that we are supporting local school and families. To be a responsible you should not have to pay extra.

We are group of highly experienced team. We always believe in a systematic team work. Our team has a good knowledge of surrounding and circumstances, where we operate our trip. As you are in the hand of expert, you will enjoy your trip, without facing any difficulties , all forthcoming problems will solved by our expertise before knocking your doors .

Safety is always first priority of MAI. We have good quality communication devices for remote area and we always focused on quality gears. Not only that our guides and porters also use quality gears and they are fully insured. We can only keep you safe, if we are in a safe side.  

Travelling is not only to see, it is also like to be, everybody will walk the same way, but we lead you differently in the same trial. Everybody can see everything, but there is something that you can only see and feel. We will bring you to the school of kids, farms of farmers and also to the home of locals, and also eating and dancing with local.

We always care about our guides and porters, about their foods, accommodation and even about their gears. Our porters never carry the weight more than 25 kgs, we always provide good wages on time. Not only that we never allowed to load more weight for donkeys, yaks, and jopkeys and also consult with their owner to feed them on time.