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Green Compass Treks is a trekking and tour operator based in Lakeside, Pokhara. We are part of the Big Sky Treks family — the government-registered Nepali company our founder and guides have worked under for years — and we run guided treks, peak climbs, cultural tours and day adventures across the Nepal Himalaya.

Yes. We operate under Big Sky Treks, which is registered with the Government of Nepal and licensed through the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) and the Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal (TAAN). Our guides hold government trekking licences, and we arrange every permit your route requires.

Big Sky Treks is our parent company. It holds the registration, the licensing and a long-standing network in the mountains; Green Compass Treks is the name we run small-group and private trips under. In practice it means you get a small, attentive team with an established operator's paperwork and logistics behind it.

We are in Lakeside, Pokhara, about an hour from the Annapurna trailheads. The office is open Sunday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM Nepal time. You can reach us on +977 9864379436, on WhatsApp, or by email at info@greencompasstreks.com — and we answer outside those hours too when one of our groups is on the trail.

Our senior guide, Bhakti Ram Devkota, has more than twenty years of guiding behind him, and our senior porters Bishu Devkota and Durga Devkota have been carrying on these trails just as long. Rabi Poudel and Sankher Poudel work as guide-cum-porters, and our founder Bishow Devkota guides as well as running the company. Everyone is on our own payroll — we do not subcontract staff.

We run trips across the Annapurna, Everest, Langtang, Manaslu, Mustang, Dolpo, Kanchenjunga, Makalu, Rolwaling and Dhaulagiri regions, plus cultural and heritage tours, jungle safaris, helicopter flights and day adventures around Pokhara and Kathmandu. Pokhara and the Annapurna region are where we are strongest, because it is home.

Every trek page lists exactly what its price covers and what it does not — typically permits, teahouse accommodation on the trail, the meals stated in the itinerary, ground transport, and the wages, insurance and equipment of your guide and porter. International flights, your Nepal visa, travel insurance, tips and personal gear are normally excluded, and they are named on the page rather than left for you to discover later.

Because your booking is not passed down a chain of agents. We hold the permits, book the lodges and run the transport ourselves, so the margin a reseller would add simply is not in the quote. The saving comes out of the middlemen — not out of your guide's wage, your porter's insurance, or the standard of the lodges we use.

Pick a trek and your dates on this site and book online, or message us with what you have in mind and we will build the itinerary first. A 10% advance confirms your place, your dates and your guide, and you can pay it by card through our secure checkout or by bank transfer. The balance is settled in Nepal before you set off, and you get everything in writing by email before anything is final.

Yes, and most of our trips run that way. Tell us how many days you have, how hard you want to walk, what standard of lodge you want and roughly what you want to spend, and we will build the route around it. Solo travellers, families and groups who want a guide to themselves are all normal for us.

Nepal requires most foreign trekkers on the main routes to walk with a licensed guide, and restricted areas such as Upper Mustang, Manaslu and Dolpo need permits that only a registered agency can obtain. We handle that paperwork as part of the trip — TIMS cards, national park and conservation area permits, and restricted-area permits.

Yes. A good share of our trekkers come alone, and many have never been at altitude before. Groups stay small, itineraries are paced for acclimatisation rather than speed, your guide is first-aid trained and carries a phone with local coverage — and we will tell you honestly if a route you are looking at is beyond what you have trained for.

Talk to us as early as you can. Dates can usually be moved without penalty while there is still time to release lodges and reassign staff. Cancellation terms depend on how close to departure you are and what has already been paid out for permits and bookings, and we set those terms out in writing when you book, so there is nothing to discover later.