The first part of this trip is a trek through the Annapurna Sanctuary of Nepal, West of Kathmandu.  The second half of the trip is a visit to a Tharu village in the Dang Valley of Western Nepal.  This package is all-inclusive, except for in-country airfare and one dinner in Kathmandu.
Nepal is a Himalayan Kingdom, famous for being home to 8 of the 10 highest mountains in the world. It is also the home of the Gurkha soldiers. Few know that approximately one-third of all the land in Nepal is part of the Ganges River basin, where tropical conditions prevail in everyday life. Far from Kathmandu exists the Dang Valley, where the Tharu people of the Dang Valley are one of those groups.
With our 2026 trip to Nepal, we will visit the Annapurna Sanctuary to the West and the Dang Valley to the Southwest.  As soon as we are done in Pokhara, we will travel to the Dang Valley to celebrate the build-up to Deshain, the greatest of all the Nepali holidays.
Each day we will hike between 4 and 7 hours, stopping intermittently for food and refreshments along the way. We start each morning right after sunrise and finish our trekking early afternoon, to optimize time for resting and recovery. 

We pick you up at the airport and take you to a hotel in the Thamel area for a night in town.  Last-minute shopping for items of interest you need before we start. 

We fly from Kathmandu to Pokhara, then take a Jeep to the start of the trek. We hike 3 hours to our first teahouse

Each day, we hike 4 to 7 hours, stopping every 90 minutes for a rest.  We sleep at teahouses along the way, and porters carry all of your gear except for your water bottle and a rain jacket. 

We transfer to Dang and spend a few days in the village where Jeff worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1987.  We transfer to Nepalgunj for a quick flight to Kathmandu before returning to the United States