Rara Lake Humla Yari Valley Trek

A representative from Visit Himalaya Treks Pvt. Ltd. trekking with the company’s display board will greet you outside the arrival terminal and transfer you to your Hotel. (Overnight at Hotel) 

Altitude: 1335 m Accommodation: Hotel Meals: Breakfast

A full day guided tour to several of historical and spiritual attractions enlisted under the World Heritage Sites. The trek leader will meet the group for a meeting and provide a detailed briefing on the trek. All the required information regarding the trek would be provided. 

Altitude: 1335 m Accommodation: Hotel Meals: Breakfast

The mornings can be used to carry out some last minute re-checks as we have a half an hour afternoon flight to Nepalgunj. Nepalgunj is very hot and humid compared to Kathmandu and it is better to have some insect repellent creams nearby. 

Altitude: 130 m Accommodation: Hotel Meals: Breakfast

Early in the morning take about 45 minutes of flight to Jumla. The picturesque flight takes you over the green high hill, some snow-capped mountain ridges with beautiful views on them. Coming out of the plane, you enter a completely different world in the middle of the inner Himalayas, and taking a breath of cold air makes you calm.

Meet your crew who is already waiting for you in Simikot and have breakfast and chill out in Jumla. It is a small village mostly Hindu people around. You see people weaving at small looms at their backyards. Overnight at Jumla.

Altitude: 2370 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

From Jumla, the trail heads towards the valley in the left. It takes around an hour to get out of the town and once outside the town, the trail heads towards right. A gradual climb for the next three hours leads to a meadow with excellent view of the Jumla in the lower valley. This meadow is called Chauriachaur. After Chauriayachaur, the trail climbs very steeply towards the DapheLagna located at an altitude of 3700 meters. This is quite an ascent for the first day trek and would recommend taking it as easily as possible. The climb lasts for two and half hours and the camp is another thirty minutes descend from the pass. The pass doesn’t offer much views and a rest stop beneath the outpost at a cliff would be the ideal the place for the views. 6hours trek.

Altitude: 3500 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The trail descends through a forest full of pine, firs, sycamore and birch trees until Neyri Gad. The trail follows the river on the leveled new road and only leaves it to climb towards a cave at KapraOdar. The climb turns steep after the KapraOdar until Bharbhare where the valley opens up and the routes joining from Surkhet can be seen at another end of the valley. The trail again connects with the road and after few ridges, a small bunch of hotels at Chaitha can be seen and reached within a quick descent of 30 minutes. (6 hours)

Altitude: 2770 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The trails stays on the road and stays confortable until it reaches army camp at Bulbule. The trail gets of the road and follows and grass foot trail to climb to GhurchiLagna. This is a gentle climb of an hour and after the pass a steep 45 minutes descent follows. After the 45 minute mark, the trail leaves the main trail and takes a less obvious trail and passes through a buffalo shed. The shed is seasonal and may not be present after the month of August. The descent continues and joins the road back at OdarKhola and passes small settlements of Dhuir to reach Jhyari. The main Jhyari village is perched on a cliff but a small campsite and hotel is available before 15 minutes from the creek and base of the climb. (6 hours)

Altitude: 2400 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The trail gets of the road after the creek and a steep climb leads for a bit more than an hour to connect back to the road. This is also the final point for the vehicles coming in to the lake and a comfortable walk for less than hour takes near the lake. It takes another good hour to get to the campground and the lodges of Rara. (4 hours)

Altitude: 2980 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

There is a good climb to the top of one of the surrounding hill for people who wants to make the most of this rest day. The hill provides the full view of the lake with distant Dolpomountains in the background. The locals also operate boat rides for the local visitors and it can also be enjoyed by the trekkers.

Altitude: 2980 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The trail starts to get away from the lake and then after an hour or so descends quietly steeply to join the dusty track just above Gamghadi. It is the headquarter of the Mugu district and whole town is settled on a long ridge and is a typical example regional headquarters of rural area of Nepal.

Altitude: 2095 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The trail descends down to the Karnaliriver and then crosses the river to get over to the other side of the valley. This valley now leaves the Mugu valley and heads towards the Simikot valley. The afternoon is spent ascending to Bala and then on to a river camp site by the Karnali river. Further ascent through the fields and later through the forest leads to Bam village. (5 hours)

Altitude: 2700 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The trail make rounds of several ridges until it arrivrs at a stream. The path beyond the stream is a steep ascent to the ChnagkheliLagna. From ChangkheliLagna, another descent follows until the campsite by the river near the village of Jogimara . (7 hours)

Altitude: 3594 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The day starts with a quick ascent to a nearby top of the ridge and quickly descends down to another stream. After crossing the stream the trail now climbs through a landslide section and then traverses around for few hours to get to Darma Bazar. (5 hours)

Altitude: 2200 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The trail again starts to descends for a bit and then starts to climb back towards the Piplan village. More climbing follows and passes the villages of Nimagaon,Korka and Puma. After Puma, the trail enters the forests and finally exits at ApsiaLek (6 hours)

Altitude: 3195 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The day starts with a climb and the highest mountain of these parts, Saipal can be seen during the trek. The traverse around the ridges continues for a bit and then turns into a descend to the RodhikotKhola. After RodhikotKhola, the trail climbs for more than an hour to get to PunkhaKhola. (4 hours)

Altitude: 3010 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

A big steep climb starts the day and also Simikot starts to appear in the distance. As with the most the trek, the trail climbs in the morning and then starts to drop to end the day. The camp site is at YanchuKhola by the rive. (6 hours)

Altitude: 2100 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The trail is more comfortable in the morning and slowly starts to climb with the day. It passes the village of Durpa, pilgrim site of Kharpunath and then KudilaKhola valley to reach the Simikot. (7 hours)

Altitude: 2950 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

An hour climb leads to pass and another hour of steep drop leads to Majgaon. Now the trail stays comfortable and undulates for the next couple hours and leads to Dharapuri. (4 hours) 

Altitude: 2300 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

This is a short day as the trail undulates but continuously follows Karnali River all the way up to Kermi. There are hot springs nearby the village, where an leisurely afternoon can be enjoyed. (3 hours) 

Altitude: 2670 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The first couple of hours of the day is on comfortable terrain but consistently gains elevation and reaches a small pass. A steep descent leads to suspension bridge and leads through the forest to Yalbang. (5 hours) 

Altitude: 3020 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The trail leaves Karnali river and climbs towards Yangar. After Yangar, the trail gets a bit rocky and goes on to cross Karnali once again on a wooden bridge. A climb follows and after a good couple of hours , gets to Muchu. Another hour finally leads to Tumkot. (5 hours) 

Altitude: 3380 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Most part of this day is spent climbing and includes some steep section as well. In more than 3 hours, the trail passes through Pani Palwang and then in less than 2 hours the day ends at Yari. 

Altitude: 3700 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

A hard day as the trek today passes a 4600 meters Nara La. It takes around 4 hours to get to the top another 2 hours of steep descent to Hilsa. 

Altitude: 4620 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The day starts with a crossing of yet another bridge and another climb for a short period. Afterwards, the trail continuously undulates and follows the Karnali River all the way up to Manepeme. (5 hours) 

Altitude: 3990 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Another climb of around 4 hours takes to Lamka La at 4300 meters. A detour en route to the pass leads to a medication cave. From the pass, it takes another one and half hours to the village of Til. Vegetations can be observed once again at Til. (6 hours) 

Altitude: 4000 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

An easy and very short day to Halji. The terrain is slightly uphill but still very comfortable throughout the day. (3 hours) 

Altitude: 3660 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Another easy day follows as it takes only 4 hours following the Limi River to get to Jang. (4 hours) 

Altitude: 3930 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

One of the two hardest day of the trek and also marks the treks entrance into the wild. There are no more villages and civilization for the next couple of days. However, the trail is quite steady but gradually keeps climbing the whole day. (8 hours)

Altitude: 4370 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The hardest day of the trek but the best day for the views. A very tough and hard uphill climb of around 5 hours takes to the 4900 meter Nyalu La. Stunning 360 degrees view with views of Tibet can be enjoyed at the top. The holy mountain Kailash of Tibet (6714 meters) and Saipal of Nepal (7031 m) being the pick of the lot. The trail drops to Selma Tso Lake and further continues going down to Shinjungma. (8 hours) 

Altitude: 4949 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

A steep drop leads to SaliKhola, which goes on to meet Karnali River again and finally to Kermi. (7 hours) 

Altitude: 2670 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The trek retraces the same way back to Simikot. (6 hours) 

Altitude: 2950 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

We take the early flight to Nepalgunj and connect with an onward flight to Kathmandu.

Altitude: 1335 m Accommodation: Hotel Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

A leisure day in Kathmandu which can used for an early morning mountain flights to Everest or can extended into further more tours to Nagarkot, Dhulikhel etc. (This is also spare day in case of cancellation of flights) (Overnight at Hotel. Breakfast included) 

Altitude: 1335 m Accommodation: Hotel Meals: Breakfast

A representative from Visit Himalaya Treks Pvt. Ltd. will check your flight tickets and transfer you to the airport before two hours from your flight with a hope of seeing you again in the future. (Breakfast included)

Altitude: 1335 m Accommodation: No Meals: Breakfast