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 If something on the site is out of date or you need advice on a specific itinerary, get in touch — the team replies within 24 hours.
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What to do between landing at Kathmandu airport and starting your trek — airport arrival, SIM cards, money, the pre-trek briefing, gear shopping in Thamel, and how to spend a spare day usefully rather than lying jet-lagged in a hotel.
Trekking is one of the few industries that puts money directly into remote Nepali households — and one that leaves plastic, firewood demand and waste behind. Practical ways to get the first without the second, from water bottles to where you spend.
The practical things first-time trekkers in Nepal usually learn on day four — about pace, cold, cash, lodges, altitude, photography, etiquette and what to do when the plan changes — collected before you leave home.
What easy, moderate, challenging, difficult and extreme actually mean on our trip pages — the daily hours, altitude, terrain, remoteness and technical demands behind each grade, with example routes for every level.
Nepal treks are not technically hard — they are long, repetitive, and relentlessly uphill and downhill. This twelve-week plan builds the specific endurance that matters, with advice on what to train if you only have a month.
Several of Nepal's best treks begin with a short flight into the mountains. This guide covers the main routes, baggage limits, why Lukla flights move to Ramechhap in peak season, how delays actually work, and the buffer days that protect your trip home.
Most nationalities can get a Nepal tourist visa on arrival at Kathmandu airport in twenty minutes. Here is the process step by step, the current fees, the nationalities that must apply in advance, and how to extend a visa if your trek runs long.
Nepal has required trekkers in protected areas to walk with a licensed guide since April 2023. Here is what that rule means in practice, what a guide and a porter each do, what they cost, how they are paid and insured, and how to be a good employer on the trail.
What a Nepal trek actually costs, line by line: permits, guides, porters, lodges, food, internal flights, gear, tips, and the extras nobody quotes for. With worked budgets for a short trek, a classic teahouse trek, and a restricted-area route.
You need three to four litres a day at altitude, and you cannot drink it straight from the tap. Tablets, filters, UV pens, boiled water, and bottled water compared — on safety, cost, weight, taste, and what they do to the mountain.
Teahouse menus across Nepal are more consistent than you would expect, and more limited the higher you go. Here is what is on them, what is worth ordering at each altitude, how to eat when altitude kills your appetite, and how to handle dietary requirements.
Teahouse trekking means walking between family-run lodges instead of carrying a tent. Here is what the rooms, food, toilets, heating, showers, charging, and Wi-Fi are actually like — and how all of it changes as you gain altitude.