Trekking is a journey on foot mostly through rural, rugged and isolated areas where no means of transport is available. While trekking a traveler enjoy an up-close view of the mountain scenery, experience local culture, tradition, religion, and lifestyle of the people. Nepal is a mountainous country and most of the places and villages are not connected by roads, and the only real way to explore them is on foot. One has to walk through trails that connect various villages inhabited by diverse ethnic groups of people along the route.
Trekking in Nepal can be of any duration – from 2-3 days to more than one month, it all depends on interest, physical strength, and budget of the trekkers. You always find villages along the trails, usually containing lodges also known as a “tea house”. that provides you a place to sleep and food to eat. Most of these tea houses are in small picturesque villages along the very well-marked trails
Most of the treks in Nepal are in the mountains, but there are differences in forms of landscapes and people between one trekking areas to another. The topography changes from lush to arid and the villages and customs also transform with varied landscapes.
Nepal offers lots of treks. There are three major trekking areas in Nepal – Annapurna region, Langtang-Helambu and Everest region. The ‘Everest Base Camp’ trek and ‘Round Annapurna’ trek are regarded some of the best trekking routes in Nepal and even in the world. Thousands of trekkers from different parts of the world visit Nepal to enjoy an up-close view of the mountain scenery, experience local culture, tradition, religion, and lifestyle of the people. The starting and ending points of the touristic treks can be accessed usually by overland drive or by flight.