Annapurna Base Camp Trek

Welcome to Nepal! Upon your arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, complete your customs and visa formalities. One of our office representatives will be there holding an Icicles Adventure Treks sign board with your name. He will transfer you to the hotel in Kathmandu of your choice. Check-in at your hotel and rest, or perhaps take some fresh air strolling around the Thamel area.

We start our day with breakfast at the hotel and going for one-day sightseeing around UNESCO world heritage sites within Kathmandu. Starting from Kathmandu Durbar Square, we go to the monkey temple of Swayambhunath, then take a drive to Pashupatinath and finally end at Boudhanath. All these heritage sites are worth visiting that shows us the best of Nepalese culture, Hindu and Buddhist religion, values, architectures, and temples. We also do organize a meeting about our trek and complete our preparation.

Meet your trekking guide, get familiar with the trek, and enjoy the rest of the day.

We take a 6-7 hours long drive to Pokhara, enjoying green valleys, ridges, rivers, fields, and settlements along the drive. We do have a lunch stop in a restaurant. A

Upon arrival at beautiful lake city, Pokhara, we will enjoy the overall atmosphere, take a stroll around the lakeside of Phewa Lake or simply shop and hop into any nice restaurant, or pubs.

Real Annapurna Base Camp Trek begins today after we take an hour's drive north of Pokhara. Our drive ends at Nayapul, also the starting point of our walk. As we start walking, we arrive at the small town of Birethanti. Passing through a couple of suspension bridges, bamboo forests through the long waterfall, we finally arrive at Tikhedhunga.

We have our morning meal at our tea house. Our day gets little tough as we will be climbing straight more than 3000 stone stairs to arrive at Ulleri. There will be an excellent view of Annapurna along the route. And after getting at the top, we gradually walk through meadows, forests and river streams. We will be at the heart of nature, so we do see many beautiful birds. It will be heaven, especially for keen bird watchers. Trekking further to the north passing through Nangethati, we arrive at Ghorepani.

Nothing seems more beautiful than panoramic views of Annapurna Himalayan Ranges from Poonhill.

We wake-up early in the morning with this excitement. After couple of minutes of walk in the dark with help of a torch light, we arrive at Poonhill viewpoint and suddenly the magic happens. As the golden rays of sun slowly reveals the snow capped mountains, the scenery simply can’t be explained in words. The view of Dhaulagiri, Machapuchare, Annapurna South, Himchuli, Nilgiri and other nearby himlayas is seen. Then after, we make our way downwards through beautiful forests towards Tadapani.

We will lose altitude today while descending down further from Tadapani to Gurjung Village. Passing through waterfalls, suspension bridges and couple of ascends and descends, we arrive at Chhomrong. It is a beautiful village located at lap of Annapurna Himalayas and excellent views of snow capped mountains is seen from here.

We follow river gorge leaving behind Chhomrong today. And with couple of downhill walk takes us near Chhomrong River. We cross through a suspension bridge and then climb out of the side valley through bamboo, rhododendron and oak forests. In this similar passion, we cross through refreshingly green forest, spot some flora, fauna, and reach Dovan at the end of the day.

We start our day today with a climb through bamboo forests and we walk enjoying the nature at its best, the valleys, rivers and flowers with many stone steps. Deurali is at foot of Modi Himal where we will have our lunch. We cross the small bridge at Modi Khola, and continue climbing towards scattered glacial valley. From this point, different side of Fishtail Himalaya is seen and we find difference in vegetation as well. After walking for couple of hours following the Modi Khola again, we find tea houses there. And we spend one night before pushing ourselves to Annapurna base camp. As we are very close to Himalayas, the views gets even more close and marvelous.

There won’t be a much of walking today, as we are that close to our destination and major highlight of this trek. In just two hours, we will be there at Annapurna Base Camp. We won't see much vegetation at this altitude. Also known as Annapurna Sanctuary, we feel like we are being surrounded by high Himalayas from all direction. We are free to explore around Annapurna Base camp throughout the day.

Today will also be the beautiful sunrise watching day. We wake up before sunrise, as the sun rays hits the Himalayas, we take plenty of pictures. Then after having our breakfast in hotel, we return Bamboo. Walking down, it won’t be that tough task today. With a further walk through beautiful glaciers, forests; we arrive at Bamboo at end of the day. There will be huge drop of 2000 meters in elevation.

We continue returning back to where we all began. Today we head back towards Chhomrong through rough terrains and slightly ascends. Afterward, the route takes us down through plenty of stone stairs. And we cross the river. With a couple of ascends and descends, we arrive at Jhinu Danda today. The major attraction at this place is the natural hot springs. Walking 20 minutes down the main trail, we take a dip at hot spring and simply relax. Finally, we take an hour drive back to Pokhara after relaxing our tired muscles.

We drive towards Kathmandu leaving back the trails of ABC and Pokhara. Upon arrival at capital city, we will organize farewell dinner at one of the cultural restaurant with good performances.

Quick Note:  You also have an option to extend your Nepal trekking trip with an extra day at Pokhara to explore even more natural and cultural attractions. Similarly, Chitwan Safari, Rafting, or Bungee jumping and Paragliding, Everest mountain flight and there are many more activities that you can experience while you are in Nepal.

With plenty of wonderful Annapurna Base Camp Trekking memories, you will be transferred to TIA for your scheduled international flight by one of our office representative. We hope that you like our services, and look forward to organize even more treks, tours and adventures in near future. Farewell!