Things to do in Nepal

Nepal, the adventure travel center of South Asia, provides variety of packages for adventure holidays, including Jungle safari, rafting, expedition, peak climbing, mountain biking etc. This kingdom of magical mountains adorns the Himalayan range with its walking trails, complex culture and nerve tingling scenery.

Climb top of the world

The trekking in the Mount Everest region presents the tourists with the attractive prospect of visiting Sagarmatha National Park full of rich variety of flora and fauna across its rugged and steep terrain.

Visit the birthplace of symbol of peace, Buddha

Lumbini is the birthplace of Gautam Buddha, the Shakya prince who became a Buddhist monk and gained enlightenment. The birthplace of Buddha Lumbini has been declared as a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO.

Cultural Exchange Tours

During the main festivals in Nepal, travelers have the opportunity to go on ‘cultural exchange tours’, in which they will learn about the rich religious and historical backgrounds of these holidays, and participate in the festivities with the local people. Festivals such as Dashain, festival of the goddess Durga, and Tihar, the festival of lights, are wonderful times to show tourists some of Nepal’s most beautiful traditions. If you are interested in learning about how these holidays are celebrated, cultural exchange tours are the ideal way to gain a true understanding of how Nepalese people celebrate their religions.

Agritourism

Agritourism is ideal for those who want hands-on learning experience while still having a very direct impact on their host community. The term ‘agritourism’ is gaining in popularity, and is broadly defined as involving activities that bring visitors to farms for various activities.

Nepal Rural Tourism Agriculture In Nepal, these activities can include rice farming, feeding animals, picking fruit, and other activities that involve the cultivation, harvesting, and processing of local Nepalese produce. More than 50% of the population of Nepal is engaged in agriculture, and 65% of the population is dependent on it.

The production of rice, corn, wheat, millet, barley, sugarcane all play an important role in Nepalese life and lifestyle and well as the production of milk, meat, and fruit. Nepal also has a longstanding tradition of natural healing and Ayurveda, a system of Hindu alternative medicine that uses plants such as roots, cinnamon, cardamom, and so on to cure many health problems. Through Agritourism, travelers will have the opportunity to learn in depth about the Nepalese diet and the journey of the food from the farm to the plate.

Photography Tours

Guided Photography Tours allow visitors to see Nepal through their own lenses. Through your pictures you can capture, as best as possible, the essence of your personal experience in the country. Your guide will be a professional photographer, who will help you in your creative process and show you the tips and tricks of taking beautiful photographs.

No matter where you are in Nepal, it is truly a place that engulfs the senses. From the chaos of the city to the peaceful mountain breezes, from majestic monasteries to farming villages, from country-wide holidays to tamed yaks and wild horses, the photographic potential in Nepal is absolutely endless. Through traveling, learning, and being inspired by this beautiful country, photographic tours explore the very soul of Nepal.

Philanthropic Tourism

Philanthropic Tourism is the perfect opportunity to visit Nepal through compassionate eyes. Through visiting local institutions such as schools, impoverished communities, and health centers, philanthropic visitors will merge being a tourist with continuously deepening their understanding of Nepalese life and how it can be improved through humanitarian action.

The purpose of Philanthropic Tourism is to expose visitors to all aspects of the country. Not only will you have the opportunity in Nepal to do many exciting tourist activities, but you will also have the opportunity to visit the communities that are left in the background. You will also have the opportunity to engage in helping those communities.

During your Philanthropic tourism experience, you will be exposed to the various communities that our organization supports. It is our hope that visitors who opt to be Philanthropic tourists will be inspired by the people they meet, and will not forget their experiences and the time spent playing with children in local schools. When you go back to your home country, we hope that you will keep in touch with these communities, and do your best to continue to support them. Philanthropic tourism is a way to engage first hand with communities in desperate need of humanitarian action and to make international friendships that you will never forget.

Community Hiking and Trekking

Nepal Rural Tourism Community hiking and trekking are wonderful ways to explore some of Nepal’s most majestic landscapes while maintaining the mindset of sustainable tourism. Thousands of outdoor enthusiasts come to Nepal every year to experience hiking and trekking in areas such as the Everest region, Annapurna, Mustang and Langtang region. There plenty of trekking companies offer trekking packages to these popular areas. However, there are plenty of areas in Nepal are not being promoted as they are equally beautiful as popular trekking trails.

Instead of going to popular trekking trails and spending money on hotels and lodges, it is better to travel rural areas of Nepal and stay with host family. On that way the money you spend helps locals directly; their education, their livelihood, their well-being. Additionally, community treks allow travelers to have a more intimate trekking experience by learning local culture and by taking routes that are less traveled, and therefore less affected by mainstream tourism. Hikers will have the opportunity to observe local way of living, in a way that is impossible on the more popular trekking routes. During your stay, we would be happy to work with you to find community treks that suit your needs and interests.

Bird Watching in Community Forests

Wildlife enthusiasts will find their goldmine in Nepal, which holds nearly 10% of the world’s total species of birds thanks to its varied ecology. There are over 856 species living in the country, and most of the villages you will have the opportunity to live in have their own community forests where you can sit and watch many of these species fly by.

Imagine looking over valleys of rhododendrons, oaks, pines, or wetlands, spending the day looking up to the sky as babblers, warblers, tits, thrushes, woodpeckers, and eagles fly by! If this peaks your interest, be sure not to forget your binoculars when you pack your bags for Nepal, and be ready for an amazing bird watching experience!

Cooking

What better way to share special moments with your host family than to learn to cook local dishes? The main diet in Nepal consists of a hefty portion of rice and lentil soup, called ‘Dal Bhat’. Dal Bhat is often served with pickled vegetables. This simple dish is healthy and filling, and tasty! Another famous dish is ‘choila’, buff meat, chatamari (Newari pizza), bara, shel roti etc.

There are also many specialties that vary by region. Nepal’s geographic diversity allows for gastronomic diversity based on what types of food grows in each area. Near the Tibetan border, for example, you can find Thukpa, a Tibetan vegetable and noodle soup, and Gurung bread, fried Tibetan bread.

Home stays are a wonderful way to watch the local people cook and learn how authentic Nepalese food is made. Make sure you take the time to create some fond memories with your host family in the kitchen!

Adventure Holidays in Nepal – Trekking

Among the many Adventure holidays in Nepal, trekking is the most popular one. The diversified nature and exotic culture makes Nepal the ideal destination for adventure tours focusing on trekking activities. Trekking in Nepal confers the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of nature and to observe the local culture of the inhabitants.

There are a number of adventure opportunities in Nepal, the small country being home to the most daunting of Himalayan ranges. Not only Nepal offers you to explore the highest peak Mount Everest and third highest peak of kanchenjunga (8598 meters), but also invites the trekking aficionados to enjoy strenuous to moderate and easy forms of the sports. Among the other popular trekking areas in Nepal are Annapurna , Langtang, Manastu, Dhaulagiri circuit, Dolpo Phoksundo Lake, Rara Lake, Ganesh Himai and Rolwaling.

If you crave to gear up for the trekking expedition during your adventure holidays, you can choose either the independent trekking or organised trekking. Fixed or organised trekking have a chalked out plan of action with a fixed itenary. Independent trekking, on the other hand, is more useful for small groups of people, who have basically planned to visit the popular places and have a native guide.

The two main types of trekking are:

Tea house trekking

Being the most popular part of adventure tours, this kind of trekking functions through local arrangement of food and accommodation while trekking. The pace and schedule are not fixed. Hence, it helps a lot in meeting and experiencing the real life of the rural natives.

Camping trekking

It might not be the popular feature of adventure holidays in Nepal, but definitely the most luxurious one.

River Rafting

There are a lot of reasons which have established Nepal as a river runner’s paradise. Some of the important ones which have boosted the eminence of river rafting in the adventure tours are the white beaches and warm water, along with the semi tropical climate. October and November are the peak seasons for rafting. Some of the rivers where rafting is normally done are Seti, Sunkoshi, Trishuli, KaliGandaki and Arun. These rivers don’t follow straight paths but flow through convoluted courses, adding to the adventure.

Mountaineering

Well, most of the activities of adventure holidays revolve around the mountains, with Mount Everest easily striking in the limelight. It’s mandatory for the companies which are providing adventure holidays in Nepal, to have the mountaineering permits. The mountaineering regulations are very strict in order to adopt the safe routes and prevent dangers while peak climbing. Some of the peaks where mountaineering is permitted are Mt. Yala, Mt. Nirekha, Mt. Machmermo and Mt. Bhokta.

Mountain biking

Biking offers provided by the adventure tours have evolved as environmentally sound ways to explore Nepal.Century old trails and dirt roads provide chance to extend one’s trip and visit the locales like Kathmandu, Anapurna, Nagarkot and Kirtipur. There are various outlets in Pokhara and Kathamadu which rent cycles on per day basis. The riders can thus, explore the ridges and rims of cities by weaving in and out of them.

Wildlife Tour

The overall landscape of Nepal comprises of a mountainous terrain dotted with jungles, meadows and fields sporting exemplary biodiversity. The unique location of the country renders it not only swish with sceneries but also garnished with all kinds of flowering plants, more than 848 species of birds, more than 500 species of butterflies, 600 plant families and 319 kinds of orchids and at least 4 percent of the over all mammal population of the world. No surprises, jungle safaris at Nepal are often taken up by tourists to this small but wondrous country.

The Jungle safari at Nepal predominantly constitutes of a tour inside the deep jungles on the back of an elephant or in the safe confines of a four wheeler. Besides, also popular past times are river rafting on the fast-paced rivers flowing across the jungles, walking down the natural trails while watching twittering birds, spotting butterflies and enjoying other beauties of Mother Nature from close quarters. Tourists also engage in camping, tiger tracking, tracking of wild elephants, touring adjoining villages and even watching dolphins, while on a wild life tour.

There are a number of National Parks, Wild Life Reserves and Conservation Areas in Nepal. The prominent names among National Parks include Chitwan, Khaptad, Langtang, Makalu Barun, Rara, Bardia, Sagarmatha and Shivpuri. The Koshi Tappu, Parsa and Shuklaphanta are famous wild life reserves at Nepal. Annapurna, Kanchenjunga and Manaslu fall under the Conservation Area category. Nepal’s National Parks, conservation areas and wild life reserves truly provide safe refuge to its flora, fauna and other life forms.

Paragliding

Nepal is heaven for Paragliding in Nepal.

Flight over the himalayas

Mountain flight tour is the easy way to view Himalayan panoramic views of mountains like Mt. Makalu, Mt. Gauri-Shanker, Mt. Pumori, Mt. Gosaithan, Mt. Dorje Lhakpa and Mt. Everest.