Pokhara - Dolpo Trekking "28 Nights 29 Days Nepal" ( Kathmandu, Pokhara, Nepalgunja & Pokhara Dolpo Trekking )

Itinerary

Dolpo is located inside the Shy - Phoksundo National Park of mid-western Nepal, behind the Dhaulagiri massif, towards the Tibetan Plateau. Cut off by a series of very high passes, closed by snow most of the year, Dolpo remains a truly isolated corner of Nepal. Time has stood still here for centuries as the inhabitants of Tibetan stock continue to live, cultivate and trade the way they have done since time immemorial. The finally preserved Eco-system encompasses a wild and wonderful variety of plants and wildlife, including the blue sheep and leopard. A trek through Dolpo is an experience not easily forgotten.

Day 01	Arrive Kathmandu	Arrive Kathmandu and Transfer to Hotel.
Day 02	Kathmandu	Sightseeing: 1/2 Day sightseeing to Monkeys Temple and trekking permit arrangements. O/N in Kathmandu.
Day 03	Kathmandu - Baglung	Early morning drive to Baglung for 10hr. or take a flight to Pokhara US$ 61.00 Meet our guide there and drive to Baglung. O/N camping at Baglung.
Day 04	Baglung - Tatopani	From Baglung follow the Magdi Khola and arrive Beni the small town. Continue the river valley, that starts from the Dhaulagiri glaciers. After two hours of pleasant walk by the river, you will reach Tatopani with it hot springs. These springs are about 200m after the village on the river side.
Day 05	Tatopani - Babichour	It is not a long way to reach Durbang, but because of a big land slide between Taradhunga and Durbang we go only Babichour. This area is good to know about Thakali culture. Originally they come from the Thakkhola in the Jomsom area and Buddhist caste. There is good Chhang and Sukuti (dry meat) there.
	Babichour - Takum	Climb high up the cliff and descend for about 45m into Durbang, again 15 minutes through the land slide and reached Phedi in about 1 hour. From there walk 2 and half hour you will reach the village of Dharapani with its fields and houses spread all over a large valley facing the Dhaulagiri Himal. The path is flat through the village.
	Takum - Lulang	This part is very nice walking through mixture caste village and little ridge with expectacular views of Dhaulagiri Massif.
Day 06	Lulang - Jaljala La	Walk through small villages and Jungle and cross some suspension bridges reach Morani. From there at about 2600m you need 4 hour to reach Jaljala La. It is worth to spend a night for the point of beautiful views and acclimatisation for coming several passes.
Day 07	Jaljala La - Dhorpatan	A nice walk through the jungle and some villages. It takes about 6 and half hours to arrive Dharapani valley. The Dhorpatan is the kingdom of the Tiger Leopard, black Himalayan beer and deer.
Day 08	Dhorpatan-Thankor	From Dhorpatan starts the long ascend to the Phagune Lekh (4,050m). From the Pahgune summit you well have a beautiful Dhaulagiri, Churen and Puta Hiun Chuli. The descends to Thankor for good camping site.
Day 09	Tankor - Pelma	Start descent to a grassy meadow for about an hour. Cross the small river that passes through the meadow and entering the middle of a fantastic Jungle that will take about 2 hours, then cross the river, then ascend through some small peaks with the beautiful views of Gustang Khola and after you arrive at Pelma village.
Day 10	Pelma - Dhule	Descend the Pelma Khola and cross the bridge on the Pelma Khola 24oom and climb up to the small summer Magar village of Ymarkhar 2550m. From here we walk mostly uphill to Dhule 3300m.
Day 11	Dhule - Sengkhola	Climb up a small passage and then the paths become flat for about one hour. After 2 hour climbing we arrive another pass Nautale La 3970m. 3970m and descent two hours to the bed of Sengkhola, 3600m.
Day 12	Sengkhola - Purbamg (Jangala La base camp)	Climbing after two hours from Seng Khola, you reach a pass 4300m. Then you start to walk some flat path and again start little climb to another pass 4470m. Do not worry, it's not Jungala La, you descend about one hour and camp there.
Day 13	Purbang (Jangala Base Camp) - Tarakot	Today we climb to Jungala La 4530m and descent about two hours then starts the old kingdom of Tichurong the "Valley of Water." Again continue to walk and arrive Tarkot.
Day 14	Tarakot - Dunai	From Tarakot a pleasant walk to Hautaghar and two hours walk reach you Dunai. Dunai is the district administrative of Dolpo district.
Day 15	Dunai - Hanke	Climb to the north west on a grassy slope. After three hours climb you can see the mountain in front of you group of abandoned houses. The winter village of the people living in the high part of the valley. Even some people of Ringmo have here a second house, field and some times a second family. After two hours reach the beautiful Roha village with small Gompa. Then follow the one and half hours arrive at the military post of Hanke 26560m.
Day 16	Hanke - Reggi	Follow the Suligad river about 3 hours to reach Sepka. Then continue to Regi through difficult passages on slippery rocks and follow the rive bank about three hours to arrive beautiful Reggi village.
Day 17	Reggi - Phoksundo Lake	Mountains start to be come red and yellow with less vegetation, but you walk through the forest and meadows and flowers and edelweiss, and starts climb to Ringmo. After one hour reach Mondro the winter villages of Ringmo. Continue to walk to Ringmo about two hours to arrive there. The area is famous for Tibetan people, Monastery, Chorten and Himalayan blue sheep "Naur," snow leopard and spectacular views of mountain and beautiful Phoksumdo Lake.
Day 18	Phoksundo Lake	Today we rest admire to the beauty of this great lake. We visit near by village and habitat by Bon and Buddhist settlers.
Day 19	Phoksundo Lake - Bagala Pass (5090m)	We go to the east through the dense forest until we come to the clearing with some village in it. Proceeding north east we come to an arrow valley and make our camp here.
Day 20	Bagala Pass - Numla Pass Base Camp (5190m)	The narrow valleys become wider and surrounded by big glaciers and blade saved rock cliffs. We have incredible views of Kanjiroba massif to the west. We descend to the Poyon Khola 4450m and proceed on to the next pass which we shall cross top the next day. This is blue sheep country.
Day 21	Numla Pass Base Camp - Dho Tarap	We ascend to the top of the Numla Pass which opens to a beautiful valley of upper Tarap. We proceed on the village of Dho Tarap and camp near the river.
Day 22	Dho Tarap - Lahani	Explore around the in the morning, our major encounter with Dolpo people. After lunch short walk to Lahini but it is very difficult part of the trek. We have to descend a canyon with the trail normally washed out. Over night camp at Lahini.
Day 23	Lahani - Taroakot	We come to a wide valley. This is musk deer country. Laskap Khola joins here the Tarap Khola. We climb up to Kami Gaon the residence of Tarap people. We proceed on to Tarakot on confluence of the Tarap and Baglung Khola.
Day 24	Tarakot - Dunai
Day 25	Dunai - Jhuphal
Day 26	Jhuphal - Nepalgunj
Day 27	Nepalgunj - Kathmandu	We take our return flight to Kathmandu via Nepalgunj
Day 28	Kathmandu	Free day on your own in Kathmandu
Day 29		Departure: After breakfast drive to airport fly to your onward destination.