ITINERARY 23 days
Day 01 Arrival Kathmandu, transfer to Hotel
Day 02 Sightseeing in Kathmandu City Hotel
Day 03 Bus to Gorkha
Day 20 Trek end at Beshisahar, Camp or Hotel
Day 21 Drive Back to Kathmandu , transfer to Hotel
Day 22 Leisure day in Kathmandu
Day 23 Transfer to airport for Final Departure
ITINERARY 18 days Day 01: take a bus to Trisuli Bazar and walk to Arughat Bazar, situated at the Buri Gandaki exit of the Great Himalayan Range.
Day 02: walk northwards along the western bank of Buri Gandaki from the main trial leading to the Tibetan settlements north of Ganesh Himal and Manaslu.
Day 03: continue upstream to the artificial lake damed up by a landslide from the eastern slopes. Go round along the western slopes of the lake the main trail is under water crossing the upper former lake camp below khorlak
Day 04: Continue upstream of the eastern Buri Gandaki side. Cross the several times on adventures bamboo bridges walk to Jagat and to setibas.
Day 05: continue on the old main trial to Ngyak (2300m) a big Gurung village; situated above the confluence of the eastern and western Buri Gandaki walk on the new path through the gorge to Deng (1800m)
Day 06: zcontinue along the Buri Gandaki on the main trial crossing the northern side. Cross back to the southern and walk high above the gorge, to the next suspension bridge leading back to the eastern bank; to prok and Barcham (2800m)
Day 07: follow through conifer forest to Lho (3100m) beautiful open village with Gompa and Manaslu to sama the main village of Nupri (Tibetan west valley). It is worth while to climb the ridge north of sama up to 4000m. You have a splended view of the Manaslu north face and the glacier reaching as fas as the valley bottom.
Day 08: pass the monastery situated at the end of the Manaslu glacier. continue to another village to sam do (inhabited by Tibetan Refugees)
Day 09: Rewarding climb of the peak situated NE of samdo on grassy and rubbly sloped to the summit; panorama of Manaslu, Himal Chuli, Larkya Himal, in the distance Annapuran Himal and Kang Guru above Larkya La pass.
Day 10: start early in order to reach the first settlement of Bimtakothi on the Marsyamdi side the same day; it is a very long walk continue to the upper houses from the pass summer pastures.
Day 11: continue down stream along the Dudh Khola Through beautiful forest to Tilje (2300m) a big Gurung Village.
Day 12: to the confluence of the Marsyandi and the Dudh Khola at Thouje (2000m) walk southwards through the wild Marsyandi gorge.
Day 13: continue to the Jagat suspension bridge, walk high above the gorge to the next suspension bridge leading back to the eastern bank to Lampata pass (1300m) where the valley opens again.
Day 14: crossing the Musikhola which comes from Himalchuli. Follow the Marsyandi down stream on the eastern bank. Cross to the western side along to Khudi Bazar.
Day 15: take a walk to either to lamjung for palungtar (2 days) or to Rabasing Via singlu to Pokhara (3 days) and take a bus/flight to Kathmandu.
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This trek was officially opened to tourist in 1991,
but mountaineering expeditions have had along access
to the area. In 1950, a party led by HW.Tilman trekked
from Thonje to Bimtang and Col. Jimmy Roberrs crossed
Larkya La looking for an interesting mountain to climb.
Manaslu (8156m)was atte3mped by Japanese expeditions
every year from 1952 until 1956, when the first ascent
was made. Having become to be known as "Japanese
Mountain", much of the information about the area
was available in Japanese. The Japanese continued to
dominate the climbing scene of the Manaslu until 1971.
A few trekkers, including peripatetic Hugh Swift, manage
to obtain the trekking permit for the region, but otherwise
this trek always has been the domain of the mountaineering
expeditions.