Guided tour around Kathmandu, which includes visits to places listed in UNESCO World Heritage Sites and some historic and religious significance, such as Pashupatinath, Boudhanath & Swayambhunath (Monkey Temple), Hindu temples, Old palaces (in and around Durbar Square Area) and inner-city market squares.

After breakfast drive to Pokhara which takes 6 hrs from Kathmandu, it will stop on the way for lunch and short time for seeing view and rest.

We drive from Pokhara to Naudanda Phedi (approx. 30 mins.) and then walk up to Dhampus for lunch. There are good views of the Annapurnas and the Pokhara Valley. After lunch the trail leads gently up towards Pothana.

First the trail ascends through the spread-out village of Ghandruk and later climbs through the forest of rhododendron and oak tree following a watercourse ravine up to Tadapani with Lunch on the way at Bhaise Kharka. At our back are magnificent views of the Annapurnas. The views of Annapurna II, Annapurna III, Annapurna IV, Annapurna South, Machhapuchhre and Lamjung Himal is just awe-inspiring from Tadapani which also offers glorious sunrise views.

The trail takes us gently uphill through the rhododendron and magnolia forest, with daphne bushes and orchids hosted by the bigger trees. After two hours we reach storm-torn trees broken by the winter snows and wind, and after a further two hours we picnic in the little meadow with its tumbling stream. After lunch the trail goes gently upward through clumps of bamboo before reaching Dobato.

For the first hour the trail follows the 3100m. Contour then breaks out of the forest onto the grass moorlands. To the west are breath-taking views of the lovely Kali Gandaki Valley far below with the great massif of Dhaulagiri above and beyond. The route then leads on upwards to Bhaise Kharka at 3330m. (Here too there is a fine campsite - a useful alternative to that at Dobato) It is quite gradually down now with an ideal shady lunch spot beside one of the clear streams that is finding its way on down to join the holy Kali Gandaki. For us too, after lunch, it is on down to Chhistibang Camp.

Just four hours walking today; the trail again breaking the tree-line uphill to the Kobra Ridge while watching out for Himalayan Thar and Danphe Pheasant. A packed lunch is prepared for this day for there is very little water in route for food preparation. Unbelievably beautiful Khopra Ridge - somewhere between Heaven and Earth - known by the knowing to have some of the most awe-inspiring mountain views our planet can supply. Annapurna South (7219m) Baraha Shikhar (7647m.) in the foreground, the peaks of the Nilgiri away towards Mustang and westward to the hulk of Dhaulagiri where later the sun will set.

Retracing our steps, we reach Chhistibang and then head due south and descend steeply to the Teuche Khola (1800m.) before climbing to the busy trekking trail that passes through Chitre.

Back now among the ‘guide-book’ trekkers, we climb to Ghorepani the village that sits astride the saddle that takes the trail over and down to the Pokhara Valley. Thus, on down via Ulleri and the thigh-pummeling steps to our camp at Tirkedhunga.

The trek’s last day takes us down to and over the bridge at Birethanti and up the few meters road-head to rendezvous with the transport for the 1½ hrs. private bus journey to Pokhara.

Back to Kathmandu by tourist bus which takes 6/7 hrs

Transfer to airport by chartered vehicle