Routes, teahouses and high passes across Nepal. Practical accounts from trekkers who did the work before writing about it.
Trekking
Teahouse trekking in Nepal is not cheap comfort. It is a specific economy - family-run lodges, dinner-for-a-room protocol, dal bhat at 4am, and rules that vary by region and altitude.
Trekking
Between February and April, Nepal's hillsides turn red and pink across 30 species of rhododendron. The altitude range is 2,000 to 4,000 metres and the blooms move upward as the season progresses.
Trekking
The risk profile for solo female travel in Nepal is not what the travel forums say it is - in either direction. What the numbers, the trail culture, and the ground conditions actually show.
Trekking
At 4,920 metres, the last tea house before Thorong La is where the Annapurna Circuit separates the people who planned from the people who did not. What is there and what the 3am departure asks of you.
Mustang
Upper Mustang requires a restricted area permit that costs USD 500 for 10 days - one of the most expensive trekking permits in the world. What the restriction is for, where the fee goes, and what you actually get.