Annapurna Region
The Annapurnas offer everything from a four-day walk through rhododendron forest to a three-week circuit over a 5,416 metre pass — all reachable by road from Pokhara, with no mountain flight required.
Destinations
Countries and regions
Destinations are hierarchical: country → region → location. Every trek, guide, itinerary and story attaches to that hierarchy, so each landing page assembles itself.
Destination
Bhutan
The only Himalayan kingdom that has never been colonised, and the only one that charges you to slow down
Bhutan controls tourism with a daily Sustainable Development Fee, which keeps visitor numbers low and the dzongs, forests and trails remarkably intact. It is expensive, and it is unlike anywhere else in the range.
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Destination
India
Ladakh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Himachal — four very different Himalayas in one country
India's Himalayan states run from the Buddhist high desert of Ladakh to the rhododendron forests of Sikkim, and unlike Nepal they are trekkable through the monsoon if you pick the rain-shadow ranges.
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Destination
Nepal
Eight of the fourteen highest mountains on earth, and the world's best-organised trekking network
Nepal packs subtropical jungle, medieval hill towns and 8,000-metre peaks into a country the size of England. It is also the easiest place in the world to walk for two weeks without a tent, thanks to a teahouse network that has been refined over fifty years.
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Everest Region
Everything in the Khumbu starts with the flight into Lukla and ends with the altitude. It holds the best-supported trekking infrastructure in Nepal and the least forgiving acclimatisation profile.
Kathmandu Valley
Almost every trip to Nepal starts and ends in the Kathmandu Valley. Give it more than the two nights most itineraries allow — Patan and Bhaktapur repay slow walking.
Langtang Region
Seven hours by road from Kathmandu, no mountain flight, and a valley that rebuilt itself after the 2015 earthquake. Langtang gives you glaciers and 4,900 metre viewpoints in a week.
Manaslu Region
Manaslu is what the Annapurna Circuit was thirty years ago: a full circumnav igation, a 5,106 metre pass, Tibetan Buddhist villages, and a permit system that keeps the numbers down.
Destination
Sri Lanka
Hill country, tea estates and a coastline — the short-haul counterweight to a Himalayan trip
Not a mountain destination in the Himalayan sense, but a compact island where you can walk cloud forest at dawn and swim in the Indian Ocean the same afternoon. It pairs well with a longer trip through the region.
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Tibet
A plateau at 4,000 metres, where the approach to Everest is a road rather than a trail
Travel to the Tibet Autonomous Region requires a permit and an organised tour, and the altitude starts where most trekking destinations finish. What you get in return is the north side of Everest, Kailash, and the largest high plateau on earth.
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