Most Annapurna treks start with a crowd. This one starts with a dirt road and a village. Kori Trek Nepal runs from Sikles, a large Gurung settlement northeast of Pokhara, up through oak and rhododendron forest to Kori Danda, a grazing ridge reported at around 3,800 to 3,870 meters. From the top, Annapurna II, Lamjung...Read More

Planning the Annapurna Base Camp Trek and wondering which ABC Trek permit you actually need? Two documents matter. The Annapurna Conservation Area Permit (ACAP) lets you enter the protected area. The Trekkers’ Information Management System card (TIMS) registers you with the tourism authorities. For foreign nationals the ACAP costs NPR 3,000 and the TIMS card...Read More

In a carved wooden window above Kathmandu Durbar Square, a small girl in red and gold occasionally looks down at a courtyard full of strangers, and for the length of that glance, the people below believe they are looking at a goddess. Not a statue of one, not a painting, not a symbol. The girl...Read More

Nepal did not invent trekking on a single date. What we now call trekking grew out of three separate things that happened to collide in the same mountains: centuries of trade and pilgrimage trails used by local communities, a decade of foreign mountaineering expeditions that mapped and tested those same trails after 1949, and one...Read More

A woman in Bhaktapur sets out a tray of black clay pots to dry in the sun outside her house, the same way her mother did and her grandmother before that. Twenty meters away, a group of teenagers photograph the pots for a social media reel. Neither activity looks staged. Both are just Tuesday in...Read More

Nepal adventure travel is not one experience. It is a dozen different countries stacked inside one set of borders. A trekker in Upper Mustang eats apricots grown on a Tibetan plateau, while a rafter three days south fights whitewater through a Terai jungle at 200 meters elevation, and both of them call it the same...Read More

Last updated: August 30, 2026, Nepal-China Flash Flood. Figures below are drawn from the most recent Nepal Police bulletins and international reporting available at the time of writing. Casualty and missing-person counts have moved daily since the disaster and should be read as a snapshot, not a final tally. Where sources disagree slightly, we’ve noted...Read More

The Badimalika trek does not appear on the standard Nepal itinerary. Most agencies never mention it. That silence is the first honest thing anyone can tell you about this route. This is a pilgrimage path first and a trekking route second, climbing through Bajura district in Nepal’s far west toward a stone shrine above 4,200...Read More

Nar Phu sits in a fold of the Annapurna region that most trekkers never see, a pair of medieval villages where Tibetan prayer wheels still turn against a backdrop of raw scree and glacial rivers, close enough to the Tibet border that the culture here never diluted the way it did in more accessible valleys....Read More

Every August, under a full moon that turns the alpine basin silver, something happens on the trail above Dhunche that has nothing to do with trekking itineraries or bucket lists. Thousands of people, some in their seventies, some barefoot, some carrying infants on their backs, climb for days through forest and scree to reach a...Read More