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This website is launched
to provide very simple and brief information of trekking,
tour and expeditions we run. More detail information
is provided promptly on request. Our office staffs are
qualified and take care of each of your questions and
concerns. Please, send us your questions and comments
for further information. Well-described day-by-day itinerary
and trip dossier are provided on request. |
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| There are number
of options to choose holiday trips in Nepal. The best
method to decide where, when and how to go is to discuss
your interests, time you have, fitness and expectations
with Tamang Expeditions' management. You can
put different view together talking with our previous
visitors as well. Please, ask for reference. |
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You do
not need to be a mountaineer or athletic to enjoy trekking
in the Himalayas. It is for people of any age. If you
are reasonably fit, have a courage for outdoor activities
to look something different and able to walk on your
own pace, each day 5 to 7 hours comprises ups and downs;
you qualify! However, good physical condition helps
for the maximum enjoyment of treks. For most treks,
we recommend couple hours walk involving ups and downs
or regular exercise daily, couple of months before participating
a in Nepal. |
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Camping
Trek or Teahouse Trek: |
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CAMPING
TREK: The traditional style of trekking; clients
are led by a guide accompanying by a team of cook staffs
and porters or livestock carriers with all camping plus
kitchen equipment and food. You should carry only your
day pack with camera, water bottle, journal, batteries,
etc. and your luggage with all your cloths, sleeping
bag, etc. will be carried by porters to the camp. You
spend night single or double in roomy double tent on
thick sleeping pad. Your day begins with wake-up call
(usually between 6.30 and 7.30) with a cup of hot drinks
followed by warm wash water for washing and breakfast.
Breakfast will be served at table set by staffs and
hot lunch will be served at noon picnic style, eat your
dinner at private dinning tent and have the facility
of toilet tent and camp area. Sherpa staffs accompany
you on the trail, set up camp and are ready to help
at any moment to cross the bridge or find right way.
Your guide takes you to show monuments, temples, villages
view points and shares fascinating encounters. The cook
staffs take every precaution to assure clean, tasty
and healthy food to the clients and staffs. |
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TEAHOUSE
TREK: In Teahouse trek, you will accompany
by guide and porter staffs, you carry only a day pack.
Most popular trekking trails offers excellent teahouses
along the route you trek. Your guide chooses the best
lodge available where you spend night. You will share
the family environment of the people eating local and
continental food prepared in home kitchen and making
friends along the way with locals and fellow trekkers. |
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What
does the trip cost include? |
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Our
price tagged in the trip information section
includes most of the everyday expenditure of your trip.
Our price includes the most extensive range of service
than any other company. In a package trip (trekking)
generally includes the following: |
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• Accommodation of at least
4 nights at best tourist class hotels on bed and
breakfast basis. |
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• Welcome Dinner |
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• Half day guided Kathmandu sightseeing
tour |
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• All internal transport by private bus,
Jeep, car as listed in your itinerary |
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• Flight fare if listed in your itinerary |
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• Orientation Documentation |
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• Full service trekking and other trips
(if attached with) listed in the itinerary including
duffle bag to sleeping bag to support staff and
to accommodation. |
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• National Park Entry Fee and Permits
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• All group camping with state of the
art equipment in camping trek and climbs |
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• Comprehensive Medical Kit |
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Check with
your doctor and make sure that you are as healthy as
possible before you leave home. The most common health
problem in trekkiong is diarrhoea. We minimize the risks
by providing most of our meals in camp (except on the
teahouse treks). Tamang Expeditions will attempt to
secure but does not guarantee. The services of medical
services are severely limited or non-existent in remote
areas. However a well-equipped first- aid kit will be
carried and the trip leaders or guides are trained in
emergency first aid. |
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Mostly
busy trekking times are Mid-September to mid-December
and mid February to May. But it's possible to trek at
any time of year depending on where you are interested
to trek. December, January and February are the coldest
months, when the temperature above altitude line (3000mtr
/9600ft) drops below 0 C, so trekking is risky up high.
June, July and August are the rainy months when the
snow melts in the mountains and the days are usually
cloudy. The rainy season in the vallies and lowlands
bring warm and nice weather in the tran-himalayan ares.
So, July-August becomes better for trekking in these
areas like Mustang, Dolpo and Tibet. |
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Accommodation
in Kathmandu: |
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Kathmandu
has wide range of hotels. There are internationally
recommended 4 and 5 star hotels, nice cosy middle class
hotels, guesthouses and budget guesthouses. In general,
our package programme cost covers the few nights' accommodation
in Kathmandu in 2-3 star hotels or guesthouses. However
we can arrange any standard accommodation in specific
hotels on request. |
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Staff employed
for carrying luggage and equipment for the trek are
known as porters. Porter's job is one of the difficult
works but this has been one option for the local people
to support their living. Himalayan Pilgrimage is concerned
to make sure that its staff get well paid, insured,
trained, well equipped and after all enjoy their job
with clients. |
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In teahouse
treks we have guide and porters. Sometime we employ
trip leader besides guide. In camping trek, we employ
other staff to support the group kitchen and carrying.
The Sirdar is the word for guide and cook does the cooking
and food management. Kitchen boy carries the kitchen
dishes and spare boy carries the kerosene feul. The
Sherpa staff are for setting tents and helping guides
and porters in big groups. Some time we also employ
Yaks or Jos (yak-cow cross breed, animal) with Yakman
for carrying our supplies. |
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Please,
contact us in well advance (at least 1 month before
you expect trip) when you wish to join for a trek with
us. For climbing we need booking before 3 months. We
forward you the trip booking form and payment information
on request. However condition apply as per your choice
of the trip! |
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Except
teahouse trek, meal is prepared by our cook staffs;
simple but hygienic, nutritious and delicious. Each
main meal (breakfast, lunch and dinner) contains at
least 4 varieties of local and continental dish, with
the choice of hot drinks. In teahouse treks, you will
have your own choice of foods from the menu available. |
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We provide
4 season tent for camp trek along with other necessary
equipment. We send you a complete list of equipment
and other accessories which will need to bring, but
generally you need to be well equipped for cold weather
with sleeping bag, warm jacket, rain suit, T-shirt,
hiking boots, sunglasses and toiletries. Most of the
equipment are available for rent or sell in Kathmandu. |
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A limited
amount of warm water will be served each morning for
washing (on camp trek). Teahouses usually have showers.
On rest days trekkers may want to wash clothes, bath
from streams or rivers with biodegradable soap. |
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In camping
trek our cook staffs will provide boiled water for drink.
In Kathmandu, we suggest you to stay with mineral waters.
You can buy a bottle of water (1litre) costs about NRs.15
to 30, depends on where you buy in a shop or at a restaurant.
The tap water is not drinkable since it's not purified.
In teahouse trek we provide filtered or iodined water.
In trekking you are discouraged to buy bottled water,
as it's one of the source to litter the trekking trail. |
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