“Keep close to nature’s heart and wash your spirit clean.”
Discover the prosperous Tamang culture of Langtang region with the additional aspect of natural scenic sights in our Tamang Heritage Trek. This is an exciting and entertaining trek which goes through the north of Kathmandu Valley to see the dazzling views of Langtang mountain range with the cultural, religious and daily practices of the inhabitants thriving in this region.
The main attractions of our Tamang Heritage Trek consist of trekking through off the beaten trekking trails to experience rich Tamang culture to trace the history of Tibetan ancestry of the Tamang population along true picturesque landscape past the blooming rhododendron forests. You shall also witness the well preserved rituals, folklores, dances of the local inhabitants through intimate interactions with the local people and peek into the everyday life of the unique lifestyle of Tamang Community. Being a moderately strenuous trek, it can be carried out from February to June and September to November preferably by trekkers with normal physical fitness as no technical skill is required. Join us and get your heart filled with exclusive cultural & religious aspect of Nepal.
Day 01 - Arrival in Kathmandu and Transfer to Hotel
Day 02 - Sightseeing around Kathmandu Valley, overnight at Hotel
Day 03 - Drive to Syabrubesi (1420m) by Tourist bus or private transport. 6 hours
Day 04 - Syabru Bensi to Gatlang, 2280m) 5 hours
Day 05 - Gatlang to Tatopani, (2380m) 7 hours
Day 06 - Tatopani to Thuman (2280m) 4 hours
Day 07 - Thuman to Bridim (2150m) 5 hours
Day 08 - Bridim to Syabru Bensi (1420m) 3 hours
Day 09 - Drive to Kathmandu (823m) by Tourist bus or Private transport. 6 hours
When you arrive at Kathmandu International Airport then you will transfer to your hotel in Kathmandu by a member of Friendly Nepal. And short briefing will give you concerning the necessary formalities and your trekking plan then you may spend your free time visiting local markets having testy food of Nepal.
Your City tour Guide picks you up from your hotel and takes you Kathmandu valley tour for half day.your will have great experiences of Nepal's cultures and old tradition and Religion and prepare trek gears for trekking.
Today morning your guide will pick up you from your hotel and drive to Syabrubesi via Trisuli Bazaar. The drive will be a great experience for you all because of the locals' village and hilly region. After 6 hours drive, you get Syabrubesi. Overnight in the hotel.
we start our first day ascending up to a viewpoint with views of the Gosaikunda range, Ganesh Himal and traditional village Gljung and Gatlang. From now after the viewpoint, the fairly level trail leads you to Parvati Kunda and Gatlang. The Gatlang is one of the traditional villages in Lap of the Ganesh Himal.when you reach the Gatlang and you can go look around the lake and village to experience local life and culture of Tamang peoples. Overnight in Hoel.
Our trek today starts with the descend down to Thangbuchet by the Bhotekosi river and we eat lunch in Thanbuchet and after the lunch, the trail leads you to ascend up and cross the Bhote Kosi river by a suspension bridge. The ascent continues until you reach the Tatopani ( Hot spring). When you reach the Tatopani then you can enjoy the hot bathe in Hot spring. Locals peoples believe that natural hot water has the healing power of the peoples. Overnight in Hotel
We climb up to Brimdang village where we stop for lunch. After lunch, the trek continues ascending to Nagthali Danda at 3300m. The trek continues down to Thuman, a Tibetan who influenced Tamang village with friendly people who love to sing and dance. Overnight at a local teahouse.
First hours we hike in fairly level section and descend to Timure along the old trade route then we continue to Brididim village where they provide our meals and Accommodation in their private house, The village is Tibetan influenced Tamang people. we enjoy the homestay with Tamang people experiencing the Tibetan influenced culture and life.
we eat local breakfast and head to the Syabrubensi through the pine forest. The trail leads you southeast with fairly gradual to wangal and after 15 minutes we cross the Bhote Kosi river then reach the syabrubesi.
We are driving to Kathmandu via the Trisuli river (540m) by tourist bus or Private transport. when we reach KTM then time to look around or rest or shopping. Overnight in Hotel.
farewell to Nepal and peoples and culture and mountains until next time
Well experienced local guides and proper mountain porters and well management are main rules to make our customers satisfied. Experiences of the two decades in tourism sector managing their trekking plan and others activities properly to make their ’s dream to bring into the reality according to our customer’s interest, time and trekking areas. We focus on suitable, comfortable and safety plans for our valuable guests to experiences doing mainly trekking, climbing and any tours without ant obstacles. Our team always focus on to provides services to meet our guests ‘s targets, destination and aims in the remote areas of the Himalaya with open heart.
We are easy going local company to manage every single plan for our guests according to their interest. What we say is” GUEST IS GOD”. We value the guests first in our business. What we have is experienced staffs to manage every single thing easily in proper way. Well experienced field staff such as Guides and helpers/porters are the main back bone to stand among you to provides best services. “COME AS A GUEST GO AS A FRIEND”.
We spent more than two decades supporting to the local people in remote area of Nepal. We always provide proper local guides for the proper trekking area/routes. All guides are trained by Nepal government with some training of the First aids. All field staffs are selected sincerely to make sure you are in right in high mountains. Friendly Nepal team is coordinating to peoples who are scattering on the all over the world. I hope our two-decade working experiences in mountains and management in tourism sector may help you to explore the Nepal with confident with right people!!!
We can rent or hire, most of the trekking gear in Kathmandu/Nepal such as a four-season sleeping bag, Puffy down jackets, Micro pikes, trekking shoes, and others. we help you to hire or rent all required trekking gear before your trekking.
Hired trekking gears are must to keep safely if rented gears found damaged then you need to pay the same coast of the gear. You should keep certain amount of money to rent trekking gears. Normally, Trekking gears shop keep deposit $ 100 USD for a sleeping bag and a Puffy down jacket. Renting charge per day is approx. USD 1.50.
One of the re-presentative from Friendly Nepal treks come with private bus or car to pick you up from Tribhuvan airport and drop you in your guest house. With your details of the international flight and your full name, they will be standing in front of the arrival gate in Nepal airport.
Easily you can recognize the staff from Friendly Nepal treks with their T-Short and your name in holding bord. we always make you sure you are in right destination.
Tourists easily can apply their Nepali Visa upon the arrival in Tribhuvan Airport. It may take a few 30 minutes because same time a lot of tourists in the same process to obtain the Nepali Visa in Nepal Airport.
What you can do is please fill the all details to apply the Nepali Visa before landing the Tribhuvan Airport. It help you to obtain visa quicker than usual. You should bring passport photo copy and passport size Photo to apply the Nepali visa in the Nepal Airport.
Trekking in Himalayas are mostly remote. In modern days there are many choices of food menu in every guests houses in mountains and serve you proper ordered food. You can enjoy with continental breakfast with fresh fruit as well as lunch and dinner with verities of continental American, Nepali, and Indian foods with hot soups. Most of the food in high mountain supply by helicopter or local porter. Mostly in mountain you get Potatoes items, rice Items, Pasta, Pizza items, breads items and proper vegetables.
Dhal Bhat is the well- known food in Nepal that you get everywhere, Food in mountain cook properly by proper experienced cook. Local food is mostly organic and grown in same region. So, you can enjoy your trek with proper food in high Himalaya. We suggest you to have local food which are grown locally by local peoples.
You can leave your non-trekking gears in Kathmandu hotel safely. Every Hotel, they have proper safe store room to keep the non-trekking gears for the Hotel guests.
Hotel provides you TAG/receive to make sure that your non trekking gears or others backpack are stored in certain hotel. You get your stored belonging when you want. You no need to pay any money to store your luggage.
Flexibilities are the main prior for our guests. Just you send us your international flight tickets and passport copy with PP size photo to make all required trekking permit for your booked trek.
If you booked trek for the Everest, Upper Mustang, kanchenjanga, Dolpo region and other remote areas then you should deposit 15 percent ahead of time to manage flight, trekking permits.
1 porter carry 20-25 kg in high Himalaya in trekking. We have weight limit for Porters because they need to carry their backpack too, So, 20 kg per porter is quite limit weight excluding porter bag pack.
Every 2 guests get 1 porter. Porter are main backbone of the trekking. And good supporters.
Mid-winter treks are getting popular in Nepal. And numbers of tourists are increasing in mid-winter. The data of the report of every trekking areas shows that mid-winter trekkers are increasing in good way.
All are related with global warming, and high glaciers are melting unusually. So, number of tourists are trekking in Nepal in mid- winter. However, you need well preparation with right trekking gears to deal with minus temperature.
We value the safety of yours in mountain or anywhere in Nepal. So, highly suggested to bring travel insurance to cover mighty accident or if anything went wrong to anybody in unexpected ways in remote trekking route. Travel insurance help you to cover your expenditure if you need emergency rescue from mountain to nearest hospital or treatment in Nepal.
Equally travel insurance give you mentally secure and you will find life is safe with travel insurance.
You get warm and nice hot shower every day if you want. Every guest house they have hot shower service, mostly you get hot shower which runs by electricity or cooking gas.
Per shower, per person cost approx $5 USD. In some trekking region such as Dolpo, Manaslu, Kanchejanga and other remote area them don not have proper hot shower but provide hot buckets water for shower.
Safe drinking water is most important to make sure you are in good shape in mountain. We suggest you to get normal drinking water from water tap or gest house and use water purify tablets and wait 30 minute to drink.
Filtering the water from the river or water tap is the also best way to get safe drinking water in trekking but you should come with proper filtering water bottle.
Bottled- water also available to drink but we discourage to use bottled-water to keep environment clean.
We value your goal and always give first priority of what you want. So easily you can customize any trekking area according to you interest, time, we are quite flexible to customize your trekking as your request as can as possible.
Written plan in webpage may not work out for you sometime because of your interest and time or you want to extra days somewhere you like. This is most asked question for us and please feel free and we always customize or make any itinerary according to you interest, time.
Best months for the trekking are the September to Mid-January, which is known as Autumn season and mainly most of the trekkers love to trek during the Autumn because of the beautiful weather and clear days and less chance to get heavy snow in high mountain, Autumn coordinate best weather than others season.
During the Autumn season in high mountain weather would be sunny with plus temperature and some snow refreshment over 3000m. charming mountains are shine with stunning glacier with lush forest lower down.
Second best months are the February to mid-June, which is known as spring season. During the Spring season trekkers have opportunities to glance the colourful Rhododendron flowers in the elevation of the below 3000m and others alpine flowers blooms in late spring season. Weather would be little windy with some hailstones in hilly region and some snow refreshment in high mountain.
Number of solo women- trekkers are trekking in mountain and Nepal is the still safe country for the solo trekkers in mountain. Solo women always safe with Friendly Nepal.
Some exercises are important before the hitting the mountain, everyday running for 1 hour for few weeks, jugging, and Gym and stay active and proper food with high carb as well as jumping.
Hiking up and down every day makes your muscle strong and keep fit your body. Move around your body, push up and down, play food ball, volley ball and other game which gives you physical exercises.
Well mental preparation plays main roles to trek in Himalayas. Be positive with mountains, get enough information regarding the coming trek. And Planning well to get ready to climb up and down.
Depend on where you are going to trek, some wherein big town they may have ATM machine to draw the money but most of the trekking places in mountain there are not any ATM, So Credit cards is not worth using in mountain.
Make sure getting enough cash with some contingency budget for the trekking.
It cost you depend how much you spend. Approx $ 20-25 USD is quite enough for additional expenditures. You can buy water, chocolates, coffee and Biscuits and others fancy things.
Minus 10 sleeping bags require from September to November and minus 20 sleeping bags require from early December to mid- January). In case of the weather change in high mountain then you get extra banket in additional cost.
You can charge easily your batteries, cell phone, camera in trekking/mountains. When you are in the mountain region the, every guest house have sollar systems to charge you electric equipment, make sure charging your batteries before the sun go down. At least you get chance to charge your batteries, and other electric equipment.
Note: if weather get change in unusual situation then no any charging in high mountains because of the no sun.
Definitely you get enough boiled or hot water in trekking in the additional cost.In Annapurna, Langtang and Manaslu and mustang, hot water is little cheaper than in Everest , Makalu, Kanchenjang.
It cost you $2 -5 USD per litter for the boil water in trekking
You should bring passport size photos -4 pieces.
Passport photo copy – 1 Piece.
Your Travel insurance’s Photo copy -1 piece.
Sure, you can extend the trekking days during the trek, just coordinate with guide and company few days ago you decided.
Some people may like to stay somewhere in nice places more days more than written plan or spend more time in KTM or Pokhara or somewhere.
You can extend your trekking with extra days.
Depend where you are trekking, there are internet services in mountain, If you are trekking in Everest, Annapurna, Langtang, Manaslu and Upper mustang then easily you get internet services in every guesthouses in additional cost.
If you are trekking in far remote areas such as Kanchejanga, Upper Dolpo and Narphu Valleys then internet services are limits.
Santa is a great guide. I'm a returning customer
George B 1 contribution Brilliant Guide, beautiful trek. Will be back! Apr 2023 • Couples We went on the 8 day Langtang Valley Trek with Santa. We have treked all over the world and Santa was by far our best ever guide, he was friendly, accommodating and extremely knowledgable about all things, Nepal, mountains and Langtang. It didn't feel like 8 days and we had an absolutely amazing time. I will definitely be back in Nepal to trek again with Santa. He also really helped us on the final day to reach the summit with his positive attitude, I'm not sure we would have made it up without him. Thank you so much santa.
Santa Ghale - Great experienced trekking Guide in Nepal.
I'd like to tell you about my guide Santa Ghale. He is a first rate guide and very affordable. He has been guiding in the Nepal Himalaya his entire adult life. He is very knowledgeable, a real "people person" and can tailor a trip to your personal need and desires. I very highly recommend him. Life is short - Take the trip!