Manaslu Circuit & Tsum Valley Trek

Flight to Kathmandu from different cities

Arrival at Kathmandu airport (usually in the afternoon) already marks our entry into another world... Customs formalities, baggage collection and welcome by our local French-speaking guide. Crossing the city to the hotel already offers a first discovery of the bustling and colorful capital of Nepal. Buses, trucks, bicycles and sacred cows crisscross in a friendly chaos... Depending on the arrival time, visit the surrounding area or simply settle in and rest at the hotel before your dinner at the hotel.
In case of early arrival in Kathmandu, lunch will be included in the program.

Free time 

Departure by bus/jeep to up to Barpak, depend upon the number of groups. Around 4 hours of road is better one and the second part of the road may be in poor condition after heavy rainfall.We pass by Mugling Bazar (center city of Nepal) which seperate the road of south of Nepal and Pokhara. After 20 minutes from Mugling Bazar, we leave the road to Pokhara and turn towards the Gorkha Bazar (the old capital of Nepal). We can see lots of villages, cultivation of rice and mountains like Boudha Himal, Himal chuli and Ngadi Chuli. If we arrive at time at Barpak village. We visit the village which is very clean and big one. We can see the people of Gurung and Ghale on theirs traditional dress.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Private vehicle, between 7h to 8h of road

We start to climb by passing the school, big football ground and visit small Buddha park, from where we can see the view of Barpak village. And then the day begins to climb with a steep of stones to reach Mamche Danda, where we can take a tea break. We pass by Pushu Danda located at 2800m which is the highest point of the day. On a clear day, superb view of Buddha Himal,Ganesh Himal and Shiringi Himal. We lunch at new smart new village of Laprak which was built after earthquake. We then descend to the Gurung old village of Laprak where we spend the night.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 5h and 6h
Accommodation : in lodge
Height differece : +800m/-600m

Long camp by passing Singla village (2300m). The objective of the day is to reach the right bank of the Budhi Gandaki khola and the gateway of Manaslu circuit trek at korla bensi, from where we can see lots of tourists. There are two trekking routes which pass from Barpak village and Sothi Khola. The route by sothi khola is destroyed by roads. From Laprak we go down to join the Maccha Khola river which we cross by a suspension bridge. We then go up to the village of Singla (2300m). Wonderful view of Ganesh Himal ranges from Singla village. From there, a long descent with many steps through rice fields and millet fields allows us to reach Khola village and after 1h and 30 minutes of descent, we arrive at korla Bensi at our camp.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 6h and 7h
Accommodation : in lodge
Height differece : +500m/-1700m

We walk on the george of Budhi Gandaki river a river that we follow it's source. We pass naturally hot spring source (Tatopani). The path changes banks and, after a slightly steep climb, We lunch at Yaru Phant before lunch, we pass by through big landslides. And then we reaches the very beautiful and clean village of Jagat (1330m) covered it's streets by stones. From Jagat we enter in the restrication zone of Manaslu conservation Area. We continue up to Salleri (1345m), small, slient and clean village of stone houses, surrounded by cultivated fields.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 6h and 6h30
Accommodation : in lodge
Height differece : +970m/-480m

We go forward to join the chief village of this area Philim, where is check point for the permits, police control check point with big school and some lodges. We cross on of the long suspension bridge. We walk on the balcony way with big waterfall. We start to see the change of vegetation. There are several hamlets and immense Himalayan pine forests. The georges are narrow and we take right-hand trail to climb up towards Tsum valley. We lunch at Ekle Bhatti. In Tsum valley, there is one border to go to Tibet. Tsyum valley is nealy opened valley to do the trek with tibetain culture and tradition. The one famous way to do the business of himalaya salt and wool by exchanging on rice from down area. We pass our night at lokpa village. We can notice tibetain culture since Lokpa.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 6h and 7h of walk
Accommodation : in lodge
Height difference:+ m
- m

We start to walk at the bank of the syar khola, a tropical rhododendron and pine forest, which is completely silent, we pass through the landslide. We pass with a number of ups and downs before arriving at a little suspension bridge. The Tsum Valley Trekking Route is rerouted through Ripchet and Chumling from this bridge. We find narrow way which is the real path to hike. Ganesh Himal may be seen from a monastery at the summit of the Chumling hamlet. A few of Chumling's monasteries are Gurwa Gumba, Mani Dhungyur, and Panago Gumba. A substantial Chorten stands in the middle of the field, which improves the view of the little valley. We lunch at Chumling, around 2 hours of walk we arrive at our camp Tumje which is the junction point of seperation of way to Mu-Gompa and Ganesh Himal Base Camp.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 6h to 7h of walk
Accommodation : in lodge
Height difference:+ m/- m

We continue to climb up towards most important and famous village of Chhekamparo. Which is big village of this valley. If the weather is in our favor, we can enjoy the views of Himchuli Himal (7893m) and Ganesh Himal(7140m). After enjoying such an attractive view, we cross Chhekamparo. We lunch at Chhekamparo, there is police check point, which is the control point of Nepal and Tibet. We climb up gradually Lamagon village. We will cross some small village and some lodges before arriving our camp at Lama gaon. Just infront, we can see big buddhist monastry of women Rachen Gompa which we will visit next morning.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 6h to 7h of walk
Accommodation : in lodge
Height difference:+ m/- m

We cross the suspension bridge to go to visit the Rachen Gompa. It is a nunnery famous Gompa. Normally we didn't see the nunnery monastery in the mountains. It's a big monastery. We will visit for a short time, and then we cross the Syar Khola. We continue to walk through the well-managed villages. We pass Lar (micro hydro power), Phurbe, and Pangdun village. We can see lots of Buddhists monuments like manies, stupas, chorten, prayer wheel and prayer flags flotting in the air. We can see the fields for agriculture, possible to see the yaks. We arrive first of all at Chhule village and we go to stay at Nile village by crossing the river. These are two typical Tibetan village and last villages of Nepal before Tibet border. The people from here do the business of Yaks wools, medical herbs etc.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 6h to 7h of walk
Accommodation : in lodge
Height difference:+ m/- m

This day is specail day as we do the rest and climb up gradually towards Mu Gompa , the last point of this trek. The greatest and historic monastery of that area. Mu Gompa will astound you with its own world, which is a flat, bowl-shaped valley surrounded by mountains. You can find accommodation facilities, where we lunch or take tea break. It depends upon the groups that someone come back to lunch at Nile and rest and free time after lunch break. Mu Gompa is a small monastery with small space.Therefore, you will return to the Nile after visiting Mu Gompa.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 6h to 7h of walk
Accommodation : in lodge
Height difference:+ m/- m

Time to back the towards our camp Chhekamparo from where we climbed. We can take another way to back by visiting the old and historic cave of Milleara Guru. He did many years meditation in that cave and left the footprint. It's very holy place. We can see beautiful landscape. We back to Chhakamparo where we can find comfortable hotels and big village.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 6h to 7h of walk
Accommodation : in lodge
Height difference:+ m/- m

We follow the same trail that we walked. We go to stay at the same small village Lokpa. It takes around 20 minutes to go to the real village of Lokpa.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 6h to 7h of walk
Accommodation : in lodge
Height difference:+ m/- m

Nous avançons pour rejoindre le chef village de cette zone Philim, où se trouve le contrôle des permis, un contrôle policier avec une grande école et quelques lodges. Nous traversons le long pont suspendu. Nous marchons sur le balcon avec une grande cascade. On commence à voir le changement de végétation. On y trouve plusieurs hameaux et d'immenses forêts de pins himalayens. Les gorges sont étroites et déjeuner à Nyak phedi juste après le chemin de séparation de la vallée du Tsyum et du circuit du Manaslu. Il n'y a qu'une seule frontière pour aller au Tibet. La vallée de Tsyum est une vallée récemment ouverte pour faire le trek avec la culture tibétaine. La seule façon célèbre de faire le commerce du sel et de la laine de l'Himalaya en échangeant du riz provenant de la région. Nous changeons plusieurs fois de rive pour suivre le cours du Budhi Gandaki qui descend vers l'ouest. Nous arrivons à Deng (1875m), premier village où l'influence bouddhiste tibétaine est présente.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 5h to 5h30 of walk
Accommodation : in lodge
Height difference:+350m/-600m

The morning walk after breakfast is very pleasentfull. We see the Shringi himal (718m). We cross the bridge and steep climb and we start to see some tibetan villages follow one another with their “manis” (engraved stone walls) and prayer wheels, signs of cultural change. After lunching at Ghap (2200m) we cross the humid forest with big and tall trees of pines, where we can see some monkeys and wild animal. We climb really Steep climb before reaching Namrung (2615m),There are apple farm. There are apple farm. a beautiful typical tibetain village with its stove built in the middle of the main street and women work to make tissues for the souvenir for tourists. The people do business with Tibet.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 6h30 and 7h of walk
Accommodation : in lodge
Height difference:+1350m/-620m

This day allow us to see the 8th highest mountain of the world. We cross some villages. These villages do cultivation. We can cross some Buddhists monuments like Monastery, Stupas, Manis with prayer wheels. The people practice Buddhist by their heart. We start to climb towards Lhi gaon, just after passing Syo gaon, we start to see Naike Peak (6211m), Manaslu North (7157m) and Manaslu (8163m). We lunch at Lho village (3110m), where we can see big stupa. We cross Lho gaon which is a beautiful dry stone village surrounded by barley fields, with a view of the monastery built on its heights. We then reach to Sama Gompa, where we do one day of rest for acclimation. The most important village in the valley, located on a vast grassy plateau. There is old and new village at Sama goan.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 6h and 6h30
Accommodation : in lodge
Height differece : +1350m/-975m

Day off after lunch break. (Acclimatization day)
The most beautiful day of the trek for the view. We climb up to 4000m altitude for acclimatization. We go up on the Pungen glacier path to see the glacier. After reaching 4000m altitude, we can see the part of Manaslu with different big mountains in 360 degrees. Return to camp by the same route and free time after the lunch break to visit the villages, rest and do the laundry service.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner included.
Walking hours: 4 hours
Accommodation: in lodge
Height difference + 500 m/-500 m

We go up Lake Birendra and then go down the valley due north on a gentle slope. After following an immense mani more than 150m long, a short but steep climb takes us to the traditional village of Samdo (3860m), the last one before Tibet. Walk through its streets, where we can come across a few women on their loom. Possible stop at the village monastery.

For the ''courageous'', possibility of going up in the afternoon to the north of the village where goats generally graze (elevation difference +100m/-100m): breathtaking view of Himal Chuli (7893m) to the south.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 3h and 3h30 of walk
Accommodation : in lodge
Height difference:+530m/-240m

Easy walk and cross the river which comes from Tibet border and start to climb up by passing manies. We take rest at the separation of two ways to go to Tibet and Dharmsala where we sleep. We climb up gradually. There are 2/3 steep part to arrive camp. We do lunch camp in the same place and after lunch break, we climb around 100m for acclimation.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 3h and 3h30 of walk
Accommodation : in lodge
Height difference:+650m/-60m

Departure early in the morning to avoid the wind at the top summit of the Larkya La pass (5150m). We cross in the morraine, the way is not so hard but long way walk in the morraine. We climb up gradaually up to top. We climb of pretty steepy part just before the summit. Magnificent panorama of the peaks of Larkya Himal, Cheo, Kang Guru, Ratna chuli, Ponkor Himal, Annapurna 2. Steep descent to a small lake (very slippery in case of snow on the slopes). We lunch at another base camp (4200m). After lunch around 2 hours of descents up to Bimtang (3720m) at the bottom of the valley. We change the valley and district. We enter in Manang district which is famous for annapurana classique trek.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Between 7h and 8h of walk
Accommodation : in lodge
Height difference:+770m/-1650m

Almost 360 degree view of the mountains from Bimtang with Ponkar glacier. We start to descent by passing rhododendron (in flower in spring) and pines forest with super views of Manaslu, Ngadi Himal, Himal Chuli and the north face of Phungi Himal. This day is one of the beautiful and pleasant day for the hike. We go back down to the plain, following the river to the village of Tilije (2245m) with high stone walls, a sort of ''border'' mixing Hinduism and Buddhism. Tilije is Gurung village. Possible to walk more 1 hour more to arrive Dharapani (1900m), (center point to join the Annapurna Classique trek).

Breakfast, lunch and dinner included.

between 6 am and 6:30 am
Accommodation : in lodge
Height difference:+340m/-1700 m

We walk to Dharapani where we join the Marsyangdi valley and therefore the “classic” Annapurna tour. We then join Ngadi then Bhulbule or Bensishar via the jeep track.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner included.

between 1h to 1h30 of walk
Accommodation: in lodge
Height difference:+150m/-380m

Private vehicle, between 4h and 4h30

We take private bus which takes us around 8 hours to arrive up to Kathmandu.

Breakfast and lunch included.

Accommodation ; in hotel
Private vehicle, between 7h30 and 8h

Departure for the destination.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

Arrival at the destination (end of the trip)