After your first night in Kathmandu, you will be doing a half day guided sightseeing tour in Kathmandu at places of interest. Sometime, depending upon your flight arrival if it's late in the night we will do this tour in the afternoon instead of morning to give you a nice rest before you venture out of the Hotel in our interesting tour. The sightseeing places could be Pashupatinath, famous Hindu Temple combined with Bouddhanath, a Buddhist Shine or Kathmandu Durbar Square, famous for its old architecture and place where you can visit living goddess with Swyambhunath, commonly known as Monkey Temple. 

Early breakfast, start the drive on Kathmandu – Pokhara highway and connect with newly built road to Arughat. This is an interesting drive through the foothills of the Himalaya. The drive passes through many rural villages and town, with occasional view of the peaks of Langtang, Ganesh, and Manaslu and as far to Annapurna. The road continues following Buri-Gandaki river upstream via Soti Khola to finally reach Machha Khola in about 7-8 hours of drive. 

The trail from here leads to more interesting farm villages as the vegetation changes slowly. The walk continues heading upstream to the tiny village of Khorlabensi and the hot springs at Tatopani. From here the valley sides becomes steeper, until the path becomes impassable the route then switches to the left bank of the river by way of suspension bridge. After a short section of forest path coming to some teahouses at Doban. Above Dobhan, the Burigandaki River flows down in an impressive torrent rapids. Beyond this steep section, the river becomes calmer, meandering across a broad gravel bed. Our journey continues for another hour to the village of Jagat. Jagat is quite a big village after Arughat; the people around here are of mixed race Magar, Chettris, Brahaman, Bhotias (Tibetan looking tribes) and some few Newars merchant and shopkeepers. 

We hike up the riverbed and over a rocky hill to Salleri after completing the appropriate papers (completed by the team leader) at the MCAP office in Jagat. Following the river, we trek up to Sirdibas before continuing on to the Budhi Gandaki River's suspension bridge. We cross the bridge and ascend to Philim, a Gurung settlement. The walk continues through the woodland towards Chisopani. We cross Ekle Bhatti and then the gorge to reach a large waterfall before entering the pine forest, with the Budhi Gandaki River on our left. The trail then descends to a Ghap and Tsum Valley trail intersection. We cross the bridge and go northeast, walking along the west bank for a while after leaving the Tsum Valley trail. We then cross to the east bank before returning to the west side. Before arriving in Deng, we pass through a bamboo forest. The night will be spent in Deng at a lodge.

We leave Deng and ascend Rana after crossing the suspension bridge. The hike continues northwest following the Budhi Gandaki River's bank to Bihi, then west, up the Budhi Gandaki Valley. The trail separates into two trails after Bihi and rejoins at Ghap. One follows the Budhi Gandaki River's northern bank, while the other (alternative route) follows the river's southern bank. The walk goes in and out of unbroken wild canyons, culminating in a difficult ascent to Ghap. We can also take you on a side journey up to Prok village and a tour to Kal Tal if time allows. We return to Ghap, where we will spend the night.

On the south bank of the river, the trail first travels through a lovely woodland of fir and rhododendron. Then we cross a wooden bridge to reach the north bank of the river, and after a short walk, we cross another bridge to reach the south bank. The trail then leads you to a set of well-built stairwells. If you need a shortcut, though, you can take the trail along the river's edge and into the pine forest. Both trails will lead us to Namrung village. We next proceed through Banjam, passing Mani walls, fields, and cottages before entering the rhododendron, fir, and oak forest and arriving at Lihi. The trail runs from Lihi to Sho, passing the Hinang River on a bridge, and then on to Lho through a leisurely stroll from Sho. 

Trek continues following the river on the right bank, with view of Peak 29 ahead, Two hours of climbing through the forest leads to the village of Shala which offers excellent view of Phungi, Manaslu and Himal Chuli. A couple of hours further leads us to Samagaon village, with superb view of Mt. Manaslu. Samagaon, one of the biggest village of this region, the people are mostly farmers growing what they could in this harsh terrains and cold climate, like buck wheat, barley are the main crops, potatoes and few varieties of vegetables grow in this soil. The people like their ancestors descended from Tibet as early as 300 years back, the culture and their living style is very much like they predecessor.  The people of this area still trade with Tibet taking 2 or 3 days to week. The border to Tibet is a day walk for the locals. It is one of the old salt trade route from Nepal to Tibet.

From here is just half hour walk up to our camp at Sama gompa just above the village of Samagaon. On reaching the camp near Sama-Gompa, we will have time to visit the Monastery one of the major Nyligpa (red hat sect) Monastery of this region.

Today's trek climbs slowly towards Samdu and beyond. Actually the walk to Samdu is not too far can be done within 3-4 hours but due to the increase in altitude and the dry air makes the walk a little slower than previous days. We need to gain the height slowly taking time and enjoying the view around as we come to the village of Samdu. We cross a high plateau and skirt around the ridge of lateral moraine heading towards Karmo Kharka and Kermo Mamam, as the trek advance near to Samdu village, we then climb a terraced hillside on the opposite bank of Budhi Gandaki reaching one of the most remote permanent settlements in Nepal, at Samdu. It is quite a sizable village of some 40 houses with 200 villagers who live in these most severe conditions. This is the last village before Larkya-la. 

After getting over 3,500m plus, its well-earned rest day for acclimatization. Sleeping another night at this altitude will help our body to adapt with the altitude and it makes our further walk lot easier. During the rest day, day trip towards Samdu Ri, on the way to Nepal-Tibet Border, a round trip of 5-6 hours is worth doing for this day. 

From Samdu the track leads to more barren areas, walk begins on the wild mountain path crossing the Gyala Khola, then ascending to the ridge where there is a ruins of a village known as Larkya Bazaar. Presumably this village once thrived on trade with Tibet over the nearby Gya La, a trade which at present has diminished. Our walk nearing the Larkya Glacier reaching Duwang, where there is a lodge, built to serve travelers crossing the Larkya -La which lies now just ahead. 

The walk from Larkya phedi (bottom) towards the top of Larkya-la at 5,135m is gradual winding climb. We make an early morning start to prepare for the crossing of the highest pass on this trek, a short climb above the lodge, we reach the ablation valley on the north side of the Larkya Glacier with magnificent views of Cho Danda and then of Larkya Peak. Finally, we walk across the moraines of the glacier, making a gradual ascent which becomes steeper in the last section to the top of the pass. From the pass, outstanding views of Himlung, Cheo Himal, Kang Guru and Annapurna II can be seen. After a wonderful moment on the highest spot, a long descend follows over snow and scree, to reach the valley trail to Larcia. A further hour on a moraine ridge path leads to Tambuche at 3,900m and with a short distance walk from here to Bhimthang a lovely place on a broad and level valley with a number of mani walls and deserted house. We will surely arrive tired after a long, hard satisfying day.

After the long days walk to Bhimthang, the walk from here to Dharapani will be pleasant through the forest of pines, rhododendron and summer pastures with occasional view of the nearby snow peaks. From Bhimthang after crossing this high pasture, we descend the valley and continue our trek via Karche, Tilje and finally come to reach Dharapani after an hour of climb. 

Since the road is there, its better to jump in a vehicle and drive back to Kathmandu. Even though the trek from Dharapani towards Beshisahar is quite interesting, its worth driving back rather than walking on the dusty road. We will have lunch at Beshisahar and change vehicle to conclude our trip by driving to Kathmandu reaching same evening for the celebratory meal with few pints of beer. 

Today as per your international flight time, keep your confirmed air ticket, and your passport handy. Our staff will take you to the airport for your final departure from this amazing country, Nepal.