Founder & Trek Leader, Green Compass Treks
Bishow has been organising treks, peak climbs, and tours across Nepal for over a decade, from the teahouse trails of Annapurna and Everest to the restricted valleys of Mustang, Manaslu, and Dolpo. He writes the guides on this site from the trail itself — the permit desks, the lodge dining rooms, the pass crossings, and the questions guests actually ask before they book.
Every article here is written to answer a real planning question: when to go, what it costs, how hard it is, and which route fits the time you have. If something on the site is out of date or you need advice on a specific itinerary, get in touch — the team replies within 24 hours.
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November is the second half of Nepal's best trekking season: drier and clearer than October, colder at night, and noticeably quieter after the middle of the month. This is the weather by altitude, the routes that suit it, and what changes as the month goes on.
The flood of 11 October 2026 has cut the way into the Manaslu Circuit at the height of the season. If your trek was Manaslu, these are the routes that give you the most of what you were going for: a high pass, Tibetan villages, quiet trails. Each is listed with its length, its permit and its reported status.
Most of Nepal's trekking regions are open this autumn, and a few cannot be reached the usual way. This is the position on 11 October 2026, the day of the Budhi Gandaki flood, region by region and with the source and date of each line: Everest, Annapurna, Manaslu, Langtang, Mustang and the rest.
The Kathmandu–Pokhara road reopened on a temporary track at Galaudi on Saturday night, a day after a section subsided, and on Sunday a flood alert was issued for the riverbank it follows. This is the Prithvi Highway section by section, the alternatives, and when to fly instead.
The Budhi Gandaki flooded on 11 October 2026 with no rain recorded upstream. Floods like it come from a slope or a glacier failing above the last village, not from the weather. This is how they happen, the signs that one is coming, and what a trekker in a Himalayan gorge should do about it.
Mani Rimdu is the Sherpa festival of masked dances held at Tengboche monastery, four days' walk up the Everest trail. In 2026 the public days are 26 to 28 October. This is what happens on each, when to leave Lukla to be there, and where to sleep when the village is full.
A flash flood came down the Budhi Gandaki in northern Gorkha before dawn on Sunday 11 October 2026, sweeping away houses and bridges along the first days of the Manaslu Circuit and the way into the Tsum Valley. This is what is confirmed so far, what is not, and what trekkers should do now.
Six weeks, four major festivals and the best trekking weather of the year. This is the calendar for a trip to Nepal between mid-October and late November 2026: Dashain, Mani Rimdu at Tengboche, Tihar, Chhath, and what each one opens, closes and adds to a trip.
Dashain is Nepal's biggest festival: fifteen days in which families go home, offices shut and the cities empty. It is also the middle of the best trekking season. This is what the festival is, when it falls, what it changes for a visitor, and how to plan a trip around it rather than into it.
Dashain 2026 runs from 11 to 25 October, with the tika on Wednesday 21 October — a day later than a simple count suggests. Here is the full calendar for 2026 and 2027, what closes on which day, and how to place an arrival, a trek or a flight around it.
Dashain lasts fifteen days, but only five of them carry the ritual: the first, when barley is sown; the seventh, eighth and ninth, when the goddess is honoured; and the tenth, when the tika is given. Here is each day, what it means, and what a visitor can actually see.
Dashain gives a visitor the best weather of the year, a country in holiday mood and an empty Kathmandu — along with closed offices, full buses and guides who would rather be at home. Whether that is a good trade depends on the trip. Here is how to tell.