Manaslu Trek
Trip Overview
Trip Facts
- Country: Nepal
- Trip grade: Strenuous
- Destination: Manaslu
- Activities: Trekking
- Accommodation: Hotel and Guesthouses
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
- Maximum altitude: 5160 meter
- Group size: 2+
- Best Season: Mar-May / Sep-Nov
Looking for a less-crowded yet breathtaking trekking adventure in Nepal? Manaslu Trek is the perfect adventure for you then. This trek often considered as an alternative for the popular Annapurna Circuit Trek offers one of the best Himalayan trekking experiences. Manaslu Trek, also popular as Manaslu Circuit Trek, is the right option for you if you love exploring mountains with fewer people.
What you see during the Manaslu Trek
The trek takes you into the region of Mt. Manaslu (8156m) to explores the beautiful mountains and culture of the region. One of the restricted area trekking adventures, Manaslu Trek offers a peaceful and incredible trekking experience in the mountains. It offers a perfect mixture of adventure walking amidst amazing culture, nature, and mountains. From timeless cultures and beautiful nature and mountains, this trekking offers an unparalleled adventure experience in the region.
The trek starts in the Budhi Gandaki River valley and heads up towards the Nubri Valley in the Manaslu region. You will trek along the beautiful river valley that brings wonderful natural and beautiful cultural wonders to you. As you begin to gain elevation, you can see and enjoy the breathtaking view of the mountains in the region. The timeless cultural riches of the higher mountains in the region make the trip even more wonderful. In addition to the culture and mountain wonders, the trek takes you over a mountain pass called Larkya La. It is a challenging but beautiful adventure to trek over the pass that brings awesome views from the top. The trek finally meets on the Annapurna Circuit Trail. It is a perfect trekking adventure if you love exploring less-crowded regions. A long but certainly worthy adventure to go for, this trek offers you an adventure of a lifetime.
Manaslu Trek Highlights
- Peaceful nature and Himalayan wilderness
- Timeless cultural wonders
- Breathtaking Himalayan surroundings
- Larke Pass and the surrounding views
- Fewer trekkers than in the popular regions
Reasons this trip becomes an Experience
Nepal Climbing Adventure always strives to offer an adventure traveling experience that you can cherish. While the Manaslu Trek is beautiful in its all essence, your experience of trekking there becomes even more beautiful with us.
By the time we take you to the base camp and bring you back, we take one step ahead to offer you a beautiful experience. We keep your safety and happiness as our top priority and you will experience the same during the trip.
Trekking with us around the Manaslu is traveling in safe hands.
Detail Itinerary
Day 01: Arrival in Kathmandu (1400m)
Normally, your arrival in Kathmandu is the day one of this trip. We will come to pick you up at the airport as per your flight time and transfer you to the hotel. There are no activities today apart from a trip briefing meeting. The information about the meeting time will be available upon your arrival at the hotel.
You have time to relax and go for any last-minute preparation for the trip. Welcome to Kathmandu!
Accommodation: Hotel
Day 02: Sightseeing Tour in Kathmandu
We have a full day in Kathmandu to explore the heritage sites in the valley. If we have not met for the meeting yesterday, we will meet today after breakfast. If we have met yesterday, we will continue on a full-day sightseeing tour.
Your entire afternoon will be busy going around different ancient and medieval heritage monuments in the Kathmandu valley. We will take you to Swoyambhunath, Kathmandu Durbar Square, Boudhanath, and Pashupatinath to explore the ancient and medieval magnificence of the valley.
The tour will show you a lot about the culture, spiritual practice, history, and lifestyle of people in the valley. You will have an awesome cultural tour day today. Our city tour guide will make it easier for you to understand what you are looking at to make your experience even better.
Accommodation: Hotel
Meal: Breakfast
Day 03: Kathmandu – Soti Khola (710m)
We will check out the hotel in Kathmandu to go to Soti Khola. It is about 7 hours of the drive before we reach the destination for the day. The drive will take us through beautiful countryside and along the river bank to Soti Khola. We will enjoy the long day drive along the Trishuli and Budhi Gandaki river valleys and eventually reach Soti Khola to stay overnight.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 04: Soti Khola – Machha Khola (900m)
It is the first day of our trekking adventure today. We will trek to Machha Khola following the trail along the river valley. The walk will bring us past beautiful surroundings as we move ahead towards the destination. The river valley wonders of terraced farms, villages, and forested areas will make our day a great start of the adventure walk in the mountains. We eventually reach Machha Khola to stay overnight.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 05: Machha Khola – Jagat (1,410m)
We will trek to Jagat today. The trail that we walk through has a natural hot spring. Our walk goes past beautiful surroundings as we trek towards Jagat. It is going to be a wonderful day of walking through the river valley wonders before we reach Jagat to stay overnight.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 06: Jagat – Philim (1,590m)
The destination for our walk today is a small and beautiful settlement of Philim. The walk will take us through beautiful villages along the trail. We will also enjoy a spectacular view of the mountains. Although we are still on the lower elevation for the trek that we are looking forward to, we will walk past through wonderful landscapes. We reach Philim to stay overnight.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 07: Philim – Bihi (2,130m)
We will trek to Bihi today. Our walk goes towards Ekle Bhatti through a fairly easy trail. Ekle Bhatti separates the trail into two – one going towards Tsum valley and the other towards the Manaslu circuit. We will take the latter and walk past Nyak village to reach Deng. The walk goes even further to Bihi village with a final uphill walk.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 08: Bihi – Namrung (2,670m)
The early morning view of stunning mountains will be an amazing start of the day today. Our walk for the day today will take us to Namrung village for overnight stay. We will walk along the trail that brings us beautiful places with prayer flags, chhortens, and mani walls. We can also enjoy the views of the mountains and other beautiful surroundings. Eventually, we reach Namrung village to stay overnight.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 09: Namrung – Lho (3,180m)
We will reach above 3,000 meters from the sea level when we reach Lho village on the trek today. The walk will take us through the region that offers fabulous views of the mountains. The mountains like Naike peak and Sinmang Himal can be seen on the trek today. Beautiful villages of Lihi and Shyo come along the trail before reaching Lho village for overnight stay. Once we reach Lho village, we will go for an exploration walk around the village.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 10: Lho – Samagaun (3,530m)
We will set off on the trekking adventure for the day. Our walk goes to Samagaun as the destination for the day. As we trek higher towards the destination, we can feel the change and difference in the landscapes now. We have entered the remote Nubri valley in the Manaslu region that will offer us an experience of remote mountains. The walk will bring us wonderful views of the mountains and take us through beautiful surroundings to Samagaun to stay overnight.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 11: Acclimatization Day
We will take a day today at and around Samagaun to acclimatize before we move further higher on our trek. We will explore the surroundings of Samagaun and can go for a hike as well.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 12: Samagaun – Samdo (3,860m)
After a day of acclimatization break at Samagaun, we will trek to Samdo today. The walk will take us along the trail that winds through several beautiful places. The peaceful surroundings of the trail will offer us a fascinating walking adventure. We eventually reach Samdo to stay overnight.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 13: Samdo – Larke Phedi (4,460m)
We will trek to Larke Phedi today. Larke Phedi, also known as Dharmashala, is the base camp of the high mountain pass called Larke pass. The landscapes get different as we trek towards the overnight destination. The mountain wilderness will be so overwhelming and fascinating in the region. We eventually reach the camp and settle for the day. However, we can still enjoy the beautiful surroundings.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 14: Larke Phedi – Larke Pass (5,160m) – Bimthang (3,720m)
The early morning walk today will take us to 5,160-meter point of Larke pass. We will trek to Bimthang as our overnight destination today and Larke Pass is the highlight of the day. The challenging walk to the pass gets the reward of a breathtaking panoramic view of the Himalayas. We can enjoy the panoramic view of Annapurna II, Namjung Himal, Pang Phuchi, Himlung Himal, and many others.
Later, we will descend all the way to Bimthang to stay overnight.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 15: Bimthang – Tiliche (2,300m)
Our walk for the day will take us to Tiliche for overnight. After a big day of challenging climb to the Larke Pass, we will have a sort of easy day today. We are again descending towards the lower elevation after reaching the highest point on the trek to Larke Pass.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 16: Tiliche – Jagat (1,300m)
It is our final day of the trekking adventure in the mountains. On the final day of the walk, we will trek to Jagat village today. We bring our adventure trek in the Manaslu region to an end once we reach Jagat. Once we reach the destination, we will spend a leisurely and relaxing time and can celebrate the successful finish of the walking part of the trip.
Accommodation: Guesthouse
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 17: Jagat – Kathmandu
We have a long day drive back to Kathmandu today. It will take about nine-hour long overland journey to reach Kathmandu. Once in Kathmandu, we will spend leisurely time wandering around the streets of Kathmandu.
Accommodation: Hotel
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 18: Departure Day
The trip has come to an end today. We have to bid farewell for this time hoping to meet again for another adventure soon. We will drive you to the airport for your departure flight as scheduled.
Meal: Breakfast
Cost Details
What is included?
- All airport and hotel transfers
- Welcome and farewell dinner
- Accommodation and meals during the whole of the trek.
- 2 nights in a 3 star hotel in Kathmandu
- All necessary paper works and permits
- All ground transportation to/from trek by bus / shared jeep
- Government and local taxes
- An experienced English speaking trekking guide, assistant trek guide (4 trekkers: 1 assistant guide), porters (2 trekkers: 1 porter) including their salary, insurance, food, lodging and all equipment.
- A comprehensive medical kit
What is not included?
- Nepal Visa fee (bring small denomination cash USD and two passport photographs)
- International airfare
- Excess baggage charges
- Extra night accommodation apart from the schedule due to any reasons
- Lunch and evening meals in Kathmandu and in case of early return than the scheduled itinerary
- Private vehicle from Kathmandu and back if required
- Travel and rescue insurance
- Personal expenses
- Tips for travel guides or porters
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions - Trekking in Nepal
Are you a licensed trekking agency?
Do the guides speak English and have first aid training?
How big are the groups?
Are permits included in the price of the trek?
Do you arrange private treks?
Do you provide any equipment while trekking?
How difficult are the treks?
How long do we walk each day?
What is exactly 'teahouse' trekking?
What do we mean by FOT trek?
What is security like during trekking?
Security for our clients is always a foremost priority for us. All our guides and other support crew are carefully chosen for your trips. Our guides hold licenses issued by the Nepal Government. They are very honest and reliable. But we would also advise you to take care of your own personal belongings. If you are on ‘camping treks’ please do not leave your bags unattended at any time for your own safety. Take your main bag inside the tent once you reach the campsite. At night, all bags and belongings are kept in the middle of the tent. Your guide assigns a Sherpa on a rotation basis to guard the campsite throughout the night. If you are on a ‘Tea house or GAP trek’ arrangement, you will be sleeping in local teahouses. You need to take sensible precautions yourself at all times. Never leave your baggage unattended and keep your lodge room locked when you go out.
What happens if I fall ill during the trek?
What type of food is served during a trek?
Do I need to carry my own gear?
How much could porters carry?
What is the overnight accommodation like?
Can we change the itinerary?
Depending on the prevailing situation, you can modify it to some extent after consulting with your senior guide. However, the date of trek completion should always coincide with the original itinerary. You should keep in mind that this is an adventure trip into some of the most remote regions in the world, where many unforeseen circumstances may contribute to the need for a change in itinerary. In such cases, we or your guide will suggest the best alternative similar to your original itinerary.