Upper Dolpo Trekking Video.

Upper Dolpo Trek Detail Itinerary

DAY
  • 1

    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. 

    Altitude: 1335 m Accommodation: Hotel Meals: Breakfast
  • 2

    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
  • 3

    The mornings can be used to carry out some last minute re-checks as we have an 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
  • 4

    An early morning 45 minutes flight lands us on Juphal and after a brief sorting and introduction of our crew, the trek finally starts. The trek heads toward Dunai, administrative headquarter of Dolpo, and then start to follow Phoksundo River towards North in the valley and stops at Raktang for the first night in camps. (5 hours) 

    Altitude: 2490 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 5

    The trek continues to head north of the valley and will keep doing so for most of the trek till Saldang. After passing many small settlements of lower Dolpo, the trek slowly enters Dolpo Valley and reaches Amchi Hospital. Amchi are the traditional doctors of the region. (6 hours) 

    Altitude: 3110 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 6

    The trek still continues to move forward in the valley and also follows the Phoksundo River all the way to Ringmo. Ringo is the last big settlement before the trek enters the more wildly and remote aresas of Dolpo. The lake is only a few minute walk away from Ringmo. (4 hours) 

    Altitude: 3733 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 7

    The day can be used to explore around the Phoksundo Lake. 

    Altitude: 3733 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 8

    The trek moves to the other side of the Phoksundo Lake and then starts to follow Phoksundo Khola for the rest of the day. This day also marks the treks entry into the upper valley of Dolpo and provides a brief look into the wilderness and remoteness that awaits in the valley ahead. The campsite is also by the banks of the river. (7 hours) 

    Altitude: 3690 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 9

    Slowly and gradually, the elevation increases throughout the day and reaches the bottom of Kang La, first of the many passes of the trek. The camp has been mentioned in the bestselling book of Peter Mathiesson, ‘The Snow Leopard’. The name Snowfield Camp to the campsite comes from the same book. (7 hours) 

    Altitude: 4625 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 10

    An early start is followed by a long uphill to the top of Kang La. Equally tiring downhill leads to the bottom of the river and rest of the day is spent following the river. The day ends at Shey Gompa, also famous by the name Crystal Monastery. (6-7 hours) 

    Altitude: 5345 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 11

    The day is spent exploring around the village and can also be use to visit a nearby monastery on a top of cliff. The visit to the monastery would take couple of hours for the round trip. 

    Altitude: 4375 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 12

    Another early start and a long steep climb to the top of Sela Bhanjyang is rewarded with views of Mustang Valley and mountains of Tibet and the Kanjiroba Range. A drop again leads to a river and a more easy terrain in afternoon finally leads to Namgung. (5-6 hours) 

    Altitude: 5075 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 13

    A steep climb for the most of morning ends at Saldang. Saldang is one of biggest settlements of the region. Ironically, this one of the most remote village of country is home to one of the biggest star of the country. Saldang is home of Thinle, the main character of the academy award nominated movie ‘Himalaya’. (5-6 hours) 

    Altitude: 3980 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 14

    The day starts with a climb and changes into a descent later in the morning as the trail drops once again to a river. Afternoon walk is similar as the trek first climbs to Khoma La (4565 meters) and then drops down to Khoma Gaon. Gaon in Nepali means village. (6-7 hours) 

    Altitude: 4100 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 15

    The trail drops to the river and follows the river for most part of the day. Yet another drop follows a climb to a top of a ridge and ends at a green valley of Shimen. A brief walk after Shimen leads to Mendo. (6-7 hours) 

    Altitude: 4000 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 16

    The trek continues to follow the river towards south and passes through small villages, chortens and mane walls before reaching Tinje Gaon. The village was also one of the major points of ancient Tibetan trade route. (6 hours) 

    Altitude: 4110 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 17

    An easy trail in the morning starts the trek and continues to head south of the valley. Later in the day, the trail starts to undulate and passes through narrow gulleys before reaching the wide valleys of Rapka. (6-7 hours) 

    Altitude: 4535 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 18

    Another early start and yet another pass makes the day one of the longer days of trek. After crossing Chharkha La, a long descent finally ends at Chharka. (7-8 hours) 

    Altitude: 5030 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 19

    The day can be used as rest day to prepare for the final few passes of the trek. 

    Altitude: 4302 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 20

    The trail undulates and many rivers are crossed on suspension bridges throughout the day towards the south of the valley. The trek keeps heading south of valley for most of the latter stages of trek. A final climb leads to Norbulung ending the day. (6-7 hours) 

    Altitude: 4750 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 21

    Once again, the trek begins to gain elevation as it enters the final stages. Few passes separate the Dolpo region from the Kali Gandaki Valley, and Cross Niwar Pass, Jungbenla Pass are among them. The day’s trek ends at the Nulungsumda Kharka (4987m) (6-7 hours) just before those passes. 

    Altitude: 4987 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 22

    The day to Ghalden Ghuldun Khola Camp includes crossing two passes and is one of the hardest days of the trek. The trail climbs up Niwar Pass, 5130 meters, and then crosses Jungben La Pass, 5550m, and offers stunning views of the valleys in front for all the hard work. The long descent finally ends at Ghalden Ghuldun Khola Camp. (7-8 hours) 

    Altitude: 5550 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 23

    The trek enters into descent mode and passes several small rivers throughout the day. More mountains of the Kali Gandaki Valley start to open, Santa, and the region also has a huge number of Blue Sheep. (6 hours) 

    Altitude: 3777 m Accommodation: Camp Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 24

    After breakfast, we will drive to Jomsom using a local jeep along the Kali Gandaki valley.  Jomsom is the administrative headquarters of Mustang and is a busy town and marking the end of the adventure. (4-5 hours) 

    Altitude: 2720 m Accommodation: Tea House / Lodge Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • 25

    An early morning flight to Pokhara is followed by another flight to Kathmandu and a free day at Kathmandu.

    Altitude: 1335 m Accommodation: Hotel Meals: Breakfast
  • 26

    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. Further adventure activities like rock climbing, hiking, biking around the Kathmandu valley with bungee jumping, rafting near the valleys can be done on this free day. (This is also spare day in case of cancellation of flights) 

    Altitude: 1335 m Accommodation: Hotel Meals: Breakfast
  • 27

    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. 

    Altitude: 1335 m Accommodation: Not included Meals: Breakfast

If the above Upper Dolpo Trek itinerary does not meet your needs, we can design individualized travel plans based on your preferences and specifications.

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Cost Includes

    • Airport arrival and departure service.
    • Accommodation in (2 in sharing room) in Kathmandu at 3-star standard levels Hotel with breakfast,
    • Kathmandu – Nepalgunj -  Juphal and Jomsom – Pokhara  – Kathmandu domestic airfare.
    • Shey-Phoksundo national park permits and Trekkers information management system (TIMS)
    • Dolpo special permits (Upper Dolpo special permits cost $500 for 10 days valid and after 10 days $50 per day which is included in the cost)
    • Experience Government license holder trekking guide, cook, and supporter porters.
    • All necessary land transport for Cook staff and porters.
    • Tented  Accommodation during the trek, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, including tea and coffee while on the trek, serve by our trekking cook staff.
    • Dining tent, Table, chairs, toilet tent, and sleeping mattress. 
    • Accommodation, food, salary, and insurance, for the Guide cook, staff, and Porters.
    • All necessary cooking gear, and cooking fuel.
    • If need a down jacket, sleeping bag, walking pole, or duffel bag, we will provide it without cost.
    • Medicine kit (first aid kit)
    • Government taxes and service charges.

Cost Excludes

    • Nepal entry Visa Fee.
    • Personal travel insurance (Compulsory)
    • Lunch and dinner in Kathmandu.
    • Mineral water, beer, coca cola, personal expenses such as telephone, laundry, bar bills, personal tips, etc.

Cost & Date

Start Dates are your arrival date in Nepal and End Dates are the returning date from Nepal.

The set departure dates listed are specially quoted and specified for group joining option. Let us know if the set departure dates are not suitable for you- another dates which are suitable for you can certainly be added by us.

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Reviews ( 4 Reviews For This Package )

Barbara Sophie , From - Zermatt, Switzerland

Lower and Dolpo Trek !!! Great Experience with Visit Himalaya treks.

If you plan a trek off or on the beaten track. You found a competent partner in Visit Himalaya. Great thanks to the office specially Rajan for his help organising my Dolpo trek. His generosity and expertise made it possible.

Also to my wonderful guide Dukpa Sherpa. His kindness, care and excellent judgment made the trip smooth running in difficult situation. Your respect and love for your people, culture and land is inspiring. Also a big t4hank you to Ishwar and his team for the generous sharing of knowledge and assistance in Nepalgundji and Jumla. Visit Himalaya is a competent and trustworthy company with excellent staff. Dukpa Sherpa you want have as trekking partner.
Anytime again. September / October - 2018.

Manuela Muller , From - Switzerland

Lower and Upper Dolpo Camping trek with Visit Himalaya Treks

What an experience and just amazing time we spent on our trek in lower and upper Dolpo! It is not just the impressive landscape and the inspiring culture we discovered in this remote area, but also the good spirit of our crew that made our trekking unforgettable! And we don't like to call it our crew because we became a family in those 26 days we spent together. Everything was very well organised by Visit Himalaya Treks even though the airport at the starting point was closed due to construction. The rearrangements gave us the possibility to do the trekking the other way round. This made it more challenging as the first two passes over 5000 meters came quickly. But our caretaking and open-hearted crew supported us in this challenge and celebrated with us the top of the pass of 5550 meters with cheerings and heartily embracements. These special moments, the awesome encounters with the local people of Dolpo, as well as the fascinating nature made this trip to be a unique experience with many great memories to take back home! Many thanks to all who were on the trek with us and special thanks to Himal and Visit Himalaya Treks! Oct - 2017.

Jennifer Ebling , From - Switzerland

Lower and Upper Dolpo  Camptrekking

Off the beaten trek into the remote area of Dolpo...because of the closed airport in Juphal Visit Himalaya Treks adapted our initerary and we did the trek the other way round. This is more challenging, but we made it also thanks to the great staff we had with us! Our trekking was once more an unforgetable experience: an amazing time in a remote area with a beautiful landscape, with a fascinating culture and inspiring people and we just had a well organized trek with an icredible friendly and care taking nepali team that became our family! Visit Himalay Treks fulfills your individual needs, takes care of the challenges and risks, and meets their clients as well as their staff with respect and fairness! Jennifer Ebling from Switzerland.

Gilles Herant, Joshua Raffaelle & Samantha Hellen , From France

Lower and Upper Dolpo Trek (juphal-jomsom)

Good experience with the company, few specifics we rushed into and should have discussed more thoroughly. We ran into a few hiccups in the begging, as you do. However, our guide Pashu Ram got it all sorted and we continued with a great trip. The team were fantastic from our guide to our two porters! Look forward to trekking with them again! October – 2018.

FAQs

We always try to be flexible to design the trip itinerary for our client’s needs. However, if you are not convinced as our suggested itinerary then off-course you are always welcome to customize or change the trip itinerary.

Holiday should never be about making it to the final point quickly. Along your trek, we can add days at your request with additional costs to cover guides, porters, accommodation, and food.

An average physical fitness should be maintained prior to booking a trek. Any sort of illness or recent medical problems should be mentioned while booking a trip. Most of our itineraries are prepared to give you maximum time to acclimatize and pace-setting on the treks would be done according to your convenience. If you are having regular medication then tell us before the trip started which would be better for us to give you the physical feedback.

Our main concern is your safety. We never compromised on your safety during the Trekking and all our guides are properly trained and well equipped to take care of our client's safety even in remote areas as well.

There would be always back support in case of an emergency situation like severe high-altitude sickness or accident (which is least expected), you will be sent to the nearest hospital, if possible, otherwise rescued by a helicopter and sent you to the hospital as soon as possible. Since you are entirely liable for all the expenses incurred for the use of such emergency services, please make sure that your travel insurance covers both- medical and emergency evacuation costs.

It is not a problem at all because in this trek we will supply most of the foods from the nearest store and remaining foods we buy from Locals that mean most of the time we served vegetarian food as well and our camping cook and guide will take care as well.

We use standard quality of (Camping Gears) like Clients tents (3 men tents for couple and two men tent for single), dining tents,  Shower Tent, Toilet Tent, staff tend thick mattress, etc.  Also, we care for our staff and provide them with proper equipment for the camping trek. You will also be requested to have the proper gear for your personal use which will be suggested while confirming the trip.

While during the camping trek it is really difficult to find the place to charge gadget somehow we will manage to charge if we stay closed by village otherwise we have to take portable solar panel to carry with us and charge our gadgets. 

Now a day’s most of the areas has been covered by cell phone network connection. However, in this trek, we always send satellite phones along with our guide so you can easily be in touch with your family.

Yes, either you can store at the same hotel as you stayed or we can store your goods with us safely in our office free of cost.

This is a difficult thing to gauge. We have seen everything from USD 25 to USD 900 per person for guides and porters. Tipping is not required, but a small gesture of thanks to your guides and local porters. The level of the tip should reflect the level of satisfaction from and personal involvement with your guide. However, we recommend you to spend a minimum of 10% of your total trip cost for tipping the entire local staff.

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