Wonderful Experience Manaslu Circuit Trek

Amazing experience all around with Everest trekking routes. From the first message to the last, the team was very quick to respond and helpful in answering all of my questions.
They were available from the moment I got off the plane until I departed, and having the local guide enhanced my visit to Nepal, learning much more than if I had gone alone.
The trek was beautiful and very rewarding. They always made sure I was happy and tailored the experience to what I was looking for.
I would highly recommend this team to guide you on your visit to Nepal!

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Manaslu Circuit Trekking

15 Tage Nepal mit der Wanderung „Manaslu Circuit“ war einer der tollsten und beeindruckendsten Reisen, die ich gemeinsam mit meinen Freundinnen gemacht habe. Die Zeit verging wie im Flug.

Bereits der Empfang mit Blumenkette am Flughafen durch Rabin [Manager] und Sushil [Guide] war sehr herzlich.

Sushil, unser Guide, bereicherte unsere Reise durch seine freundliche, lustige und offene Art. Er überraschte uns immer neu mit seinem Wissen über das Land, seine Bewohner, die Tier- und Pflanzenwelt und vieles mehr. Auf unsere Wünsche ging er immer ein und machte die Tour perfekt. Auch unsere starken Porter, Aita und Modern, überzeugten mit ihrer Art und vervollständigten unsere „Mhendo-Maya-Gruppe“. Die Abende verbrachten wir mit Kartenspielen und wir hatten dabei jede Menge zu lachen. Alle waren für jeden Spaß zu haben.

Ich kann „Everest-Trekking-Routes“ wärmstens empfehlen, und behalte die gesammelten Eindrücke und die Gruppe mit Sushil, Aita und Modern in bester Erinnerung!! Danke für alles.

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Manaslu Circuit Larke La Pass Trekking

Vanaf het eerste moment van contact heb ik een fantastisch gevoel gehad bij Everest Trekking. Zeer prettige, adequate, snelle en kundige communicatie via de mail. Professionele website, maar vooral het persoonlijke contact en de flexibiliteit waren geweldig in het voortraject. Bij aankomst in Kathmandu verliep ook alles op rolletjes en was het tot in de puntjes georganiseerd. En dan natuurlijk de trekking zelf. In één woord: onvergetelijk! In heb mede dankzij mijn fantastische gids “Bale” een super verzorgde en geweldige trek gehad. Uiteraard was het zowel een mentale als fysieke uitdaging, zeker wanneer je alleen bent, maar daarom niet minder bijzonder. Ik ben zo blij met de positieve service van Everest Trekking en heb veel lol gehad met mijn gids en me nooit onveilig gevoeld. De flexibiliteit was erg fijn. Zonder twijfel zou ik ook een volgende trek boeken bij Rabin van Everest Trekking. Thank you soooooo much, Rabin & Bale!!!

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Wonderful Experience trekking in Manaslu

Had a wonderful time hiking at the Manaslu area with my tour guide Sushil Gurung and porter Madan Gurung. They helped us with our every need from last minute rental gear like sleeping bags to telling us more about Nepal and being knowledgeable about the area. Both of them are experienced and knowledgeable. Both of them are very observant about how you are coping with the pace and terrain and will change pace to suit your pace.

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Manaslu Circuit Trekking

Positive experience liaising with Everest Trekking for our Manaslu Circuit Trek.
The guide made adjustments to our plans based on our comfort/fitness level and the weather so that we managed to finish the trail.
Our guide helped us secure some last-minute stuff for us like our sleeping bag rentals.
Most importantly the hike itself was great as well thanks to our guide for his hospitality and our porter’s hard work.
Appreciate the apples cut for us every night during the hike carried by the guide and to the porter for pushing through even though his eyes hurt from the sun glare from the snow.
Thank you for this great experience.
Everest Trekking liaison: Rabin Gurung
Guide: Sushil Gurung
Porter: Madan Gurung

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Manaslu basecamp and Circuit and Tsum Valley

I have just completed a trek of the Manaslu Circuit and Tsum valley with three other friends. The trip was magnificent, stunning mountain peaks, ancient forest, impressive rivers and waterfalls and interesting villages. During the trip we were very well looked after by our guide, Dhansingh Gurung who gently and efficiently took us through 21 days of trekking over diverse terrain and Sangam (Durga) our porter who was always helpful and cheerful. Both Dhansingh and Durga added considerably to the enjoyment of the experience with their friendliness and local knowledge. If I return to Nepal, I will definitely use our guide and porter again.

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Manaslu Circuit & Tsum Valley with Rabin Gurung

Recently my wife and I visited Nepal for the eighteenth time and enjoyed a wonderful trek, one of the best treks ever, and this was largely due to our guide, Rabin Gurung (Trekking Guide in Nepal), with whom we also trekked around Manaslu in 202.

If you come to Nepal with the idea of doing ‘your own trek’ with a small party, I highly recommend hiring Rabin. Not only does he have many years of experience but he is very honest and humble, so much so that one woman at a very basic lodge on our recent trek, impressed by his honesty, told my wife that “this man is a very good man, honest man, all other guide-man say lie to customers, say them that price is higher than the real price, so they can get more money.”

Rabin is always in good humor and friendly and gets along well with the local people and the porters too. Furthermore, his varied experience from his earlier years as a porter and cook helped to make him a better guide. I can’t remember how many times during our treks, when we stopped at a new or very basic lodge, or even at a tea house for lunch, when the owner’s cooking skills were at most primitive, Rabin tactfully volunteered to move into the kitchen and some amazingly delicious food would come out, made from the most simple ingredients.

Three years ago, in March of 2010, the Manaslu trek was not what it is now. Along the entire trek from Arughat (where we had to start walking), until we reached to Annapurna circuit route, there was at that time only a single lodge with what could be called a ‘menu’, and that was the one and only lodge in Sama village at that time. All other villages either had nothing but dal bhat and perhaps chapatis, or nothing to eat and no lodge at all. We had to camp some places, but when we could, we stayed in the simple lodges that existed and he often improved our diet by cooking foods that the proprietor did not know how to cook, sometimes even such a basic menu item as an omelet, to be rolled up inside a chapati for breakfast.

This year, again in March, we decided to return to the same area, with the desire to explore the newly opened valley of Tsum. This is a lovely, beautiful valley populated by some 4000 Tibetan people, who have lived for nearly a thousand years in that inaccessible ‘hidden valley’, connected by easy passes to Tibet but until not so many decades ago, without any reasonable connection to Nepal through the truly stupendous canyons of the lower section of the valley. Indeed, many inhabitants could not speak any Nepali, only Tibetan, which made it difficult at times. We had a double permit, which if you ever want to see Tsum Valley thoroughly, I highly recommend. Most people try to do a quick one-week detour to Tsum Valley as a kind of bonus side trip on the way around Manaslu. They never know what they have missed. Some of the most interesting villages and friendliest people, and some truly awesome scenery, can be visited in Tsum valley if you have time. One week is too little time to see more than a quick glimpse of the Valley.

I and my wife have been trekking in Nepal for years, myself since 1981, and our trek to Manaslu was the first time we had ever used a guide (because it was required on that trek), despite having visited some very remote areas such as crossing the Trashi Labtsa Pass from Khumbu into Rolwaling with friends in 1982. I had doubts about using a guide, I had seen how so many of them control their clients and take a commission from lodge owners to fill their pockets, I have seen many guides from Kathmandu who knew less about the local people and places than I did. I say this not to boast but as a word of caution: there are all too few honest, humble, helpful, and experienced guides out there, and many of those who are have moved into the higher levels of trekking management and no longer guide. But from the first days, on our 2010 Manaslu trek, we were impressed by the level of experience Rabin has, and also his sensitivity in allowing us to make our own itinerary day by day. He never was angry, never showed irritation, always explained patiently what was going on, and was always in a good mood. We were a group of five at that time, and by the end of the first week, we all agreed that if we returned to Nepal for another trek requiring a guide, we would try to get Rabin again.

This is what we did in March 2013 on our visit to Tsum Valley. Using more porters in order to have tents and extra food, we planned to visit the highest area of the upper end of Tsum Valley and ascend to one of the high passes overlooking Tibet. This year was plagued by poor weather and too much snow in March, however, and we were unable to do that, as were all the people who had set out to trek around Manaslu this March: the deep snow at higher elevations did not allow anyone in the first weeks of March to cross the Larkya La and go around Manaslu. But we had time, and because of the tents and food we had, we also had more options. The tents and food we used in a wonderful visit to the nunnery at Gumalungdang, up a steep side valley surrounded by the huge peaks of Ganesh Himal. We camped there for two nights, as there is no accommodation yet, and enjoyed incredible sunrise views of the nearby Ganesh Himal and also the distant great Peaks of HImalchuli, Ngadi Chuli, and Manaslu.

Tsum Valley is developing rapidly, as is the Manaslu circuit. However, particularly if you are new to Nepal trekking, don’t believe the hype that many agencies will tell you, that the Manaslu trek is the “new Annapurna circuit”. The Annapurna trek, over a period of three decades, developed a huge infrastructure for trekkers, with scores and scores of hotels, often equipped with deluxe menus and services, hot showers, laundry service, spring mattresses, etc. I think it will be some time yet before these things appear on the Manaslu trek, and if you find them in some places, don’t expect them at the next place. Tsum Valley is one step back in development yet.

One problem to watch out for is this: Manaslu Tsum Valley’s popularity and this can be said for Manaslu too, is growing much faster than services can be built–may be large because the road around Annapurna has grown so quickly and has put people off from that once glorious trek. We were there both times in March when there are fewer trekkers than in April or especially during the high season in October and November. In Tsum, as of March 2022, there was only one real lodge with rooms, and that was just a bit beyond Lokhpa at the foot of the valley. The other ‘lodges’ were basically beds in a side room of a local house, the largest such able to sleep ten people but others only four or five. Most villages had only one such place for trekkers to sleep, some villages had no place. When we reached Mu Gompa, in March all but one of the 80 monks were away from the valley for the winter, and furthermore, there was no food available at all. Only because we had our tents and stove and food for going higher up the valley (which we were unable to do because of snow), were we able to stay there e and eat our own food, instead of returning to Nile village the same day. The same goes for Gumbalunddang, where no food was available. if you are going o visit Tsum valley, and perhaps Manaslu too, during the busiest season, think seriously about hiring at least one EXTRA porter and having a tent, stove, and food, in case of accommodation is full! It might be worth it! Also, think of the porters: we saw many groups of two or three with a guide and a single porter carrying an enormous load, who was trailing far behind the others during the day. Many of them were unhappy with the arrangement.

In conclusion, this time with four people in our group, and with several porters and with Rabin as our guide again, we once more enjoyed what all agreed was one of the best treks we’ve ever done in the Himalayas, out of a total number of over thirty now, in Nepal and India. Rabin is an excellent choice for a guide. He is honest and will help you save money instead of trying to find ways to squeeze more for himself, he is fun and funny and friendly and all along the trails, he makes new friends with the people we meet along the way. He is experienced but doesn’t try to tell the customers what to do, he asks what they want to do, and then explains the options. If you are the type of trekker who is truly interested in Nepal, in the places, the culture, and religion and people and villages, and like to understand what is happening around you, hire Rabin as your guide, you won’t be disappointed. Indeed, like us (except for one, the same group that went around Manaslu with Rabin three years earlier), perhaps you will want to return to Nepal and go on another trek with Rabin Gurung!

Email: jefftckr@s8.dion.ne.jp

Manaslu trek wit Everest trekking routes

I can’t find words to describe how satisfied I am with the service of Rabin and his agency. First off all he was very patient. Due to some problems I had to postpone my trip two times and Rabin did his best to minimise losses. When we came we felt very comfortable. Everything was on place and prepared. For the trekking we got a Gide – Phul and a porter- Mama. Both were perfect on their positions. Mama was strong and fast and Phul took care of everything. He was as well very nice and we liked his personality. Stunning views of Manaslu trekking was the reward for the effort we did. After the trek Rabin organised all what we planned to do, always with smile. I can recommend that agency to everyone who plans visit Nepal. They prepare any activities you wish on very reasonable price. Thanks Rabin, Phul, Mama all others who worked for us. Leszek & Margaret, Poland.

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Best Trekking company in Nepal! Nice that they are Napali owned and operated (Manaslu Circuit Trek)

Rabin and the team were great. Would highly recommend using them. We went and did the Manaslu circuit. It’s was great. Rabin is very communicative and looked after any needs and wants we had! Our guide Sushil was very experienced and supper nice and helpful. Both are a bit of card sharks and were hard to beet. Suman rarely said anything but always had a big smile. I am not sure when I will be back but I will be sure to reach out the next time and have Rabin organize our next trip!
Thanks Rabin, Sushil and Suman.
Support local opened and operated companies.

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