Tilicho Lake Trek

After breakfast, we drive to Besisahar the headquarters of Lamjung district. In the morning drive leads you away and beyond Kathmandu Valley heading to low warmer areas with views of snowcapped mountains to reach at mid Nepal. Probably, it takes 7- 8 hours by local bus and you can explore the courtyard, diverse village, and terraces with the scenic view of the Trishuli River and thrilling mountain ranges.

After breakfast, we will drive to Danaque village through the various villages, landscapes and massive hills. The road is completely unpaved and a rocky hill drive to Danaque. It takes 4 to 5 hours reach to the Danaque village and you will have plenty of time to discover the local culture with beautiful mountains. During the drive, you can the world’s 8th tallest peak mount Manaslu, Lamjung Himal and Annapurna II. A beautiful scenic drive through the Marshyangi River with various landscapes too. Stay overnight at a local guest house.

Today our real adventure going to begin with a beautiful walk through the beautiful village, pine and rhododendron forest with beautiful peaks. The journey towards the Chame and its headquarters of Manang district. The trail passes the various landscapes with stunning scenic snowcapped peaks. The Chame is a unique local town that highly offers nature beauty and cultural attractions too.

A beautiful staying at Chame our journey heading to Upper Pisang. The trail passes beautiful places like Brathang, Dukhur Pokhari, and Lower Pisang then eventually reaches to Upper Pisang. Upper Pisang is a wonderful place filled by nature and culture. You can explore the local Buddhist culture and scenic views of numerous peaks with diverse landscapes too.

Today the journey towards Manang village and it’s the massive traditional village throughout the trip. The trail passes through Humde village, Braka then reaches Manang and the trail is an easy with thrilling walk to Manang.  As the walk takes you to a short uphill with views of Annapurna II and III, Gangapurna, Thorong Peak, and Pisang Peak. From here tree lines fade to barren, arid landscapes as the walk leads to Manang village on route visit the old Braga monastery enriched with Buddhist relics, ancient wall paintings, frescos, and a superb panorama of Annapurna Himalaya, from here an hour’s walk to Manang village.

Manang is one of the attractive villages of the Annapurna circuit trek. Today we have an acclimatization day hike to Ice Lake or Gangpurna Lake. The ice lake is one of the beautiful lakes that lies above 4600 meters but requires a strenuous walk uphill to the ice lake. If you’re not interested in hiking ice lake better to hike Gangapurna Lake and it’s the best alternative spot to discover the beautiful lake, Gangapurna Peak, Annapurna peaks, Manang valley and incredible landscapes. After hiking to Gangapurna, you can walk inside the authentic  Manag village and visit to local Buddist monasteries too.

Today we are heading to Siri Kharka via Khangsar village and its last massive village during the trek. The Siri Kharka is a stunning place where is available some local guest houses and it is surrounded by the majesty Annapurna Himalayas. The trail passes through beautiful landscapes, the marshyangdi river, Annapurna peaks, and the brilliant Manang valley. It takes a maximum of 4 hours to get at Siri Kharka and you should climb almost 600 meters from Manang to Siri Kharka.

Today our journey to the Tilicho Base Camp and it's quite a short walk but the trail is narrow with a sleepy rocky path. The trails are narrow with stone falls most of the trails carefully walk to the base camp of Tilicho. However, the trail passes the beautiful places with spectacular scenery of mountains and landscapes. At Tilicho Base Camp available the limit tea houses so you should pre-book the hotel in the Peak season.

In the early morning, we will visit the world’s highest Tilicho Lake (4919m) and it takes 2/3 hours to get to the lake. The trail is gradually up and you should climb up almost 1 km. Tilicho Lake is a dream place to leave a footprint on the world’s highest lake. In the winter lake is completely frozen but in spring and autumn seasons you can capture the marvelous views of the lake with the majesty views of the Annapurna Himalayas. The Tilicho Lake trail combines the challenging Meshokanto La Pass trekking trail too.  After completely visiting Tilicho Lake the trail goes to Shri Kharka. It’s located between the Tilicho base camp and Yark Kharka.

After breakfast our journey to Ledar via Yak Kharka. Till Yak Kharka the trail is completely uphill but you can walk with views of memorizing views with landscapes. After Yak Kharka the trail is easy and you can rejoin the Annapurna circuit trail at Yak Kharka. However, you will extremely soak into the diverse majesty peak of Annapurna with other peaks too. You will reach at Ledar within 3 to 4 hours from Siri Kharka. When you reach at Ledar after the tea break you should climb at least 2 -3 hundred meters and it's very helpful to adjust to high altitudes. We suggest that when you cross the above 3500 meters you should climb up at least 200 – 300 hundred meters for good acclimation.

Our journey towards the Thorong High Camp via Thorong Phedi. You will have the option to stay thorong Phedi or high camp. If you feel strong better to go to high camp and between the thorong phedi and high camp would be the hardest part to reach the thorong la top. As well as from leder, the morning walk leads closer to Thorang-la as the walk progresses crossing a bridge and then a climb along the Jarjung River. After that, the trail leads to Thorung Phedi where you can have lunch. After lunch a maximum strenuous uphill to Thorong High Camp. It's the best place to test your buddy in high altitude for a night.

Today our challenging and beautiful thorong la pass with mission going to accomplish. In early morning our journey toward the world’s longest Thorong La Pass. The trail goes completely gradually uphill to Thorong top and it’s very hard if a lot of snow is on the way. During the walking, you can relish the views of various mountains and get an opportunity to leave your footprint on the world’s longest thorong la pass. On this day should pack for lunch and water during crossing the Thorong La pass. After thorong La top the trail descends to Muktinath. The Muktinath is one of the popular pilgrim of Hindu and Buddhist people. It has surrounded by the trans Himalayas with religious places where you can visit the Muktinath temple and various Buddhist monasteries too. Muktinath is a holy place for both Hindus and Buddhists, the word Muktinath literally means ‘the place for Nirvana or Liberation’.

After breakfast, today a long adventure drive to Pokhara by a local bust with scenic views. it’s challenging with a scenic drive to explore the various views with the magnificent places like likeKaligandaki River, mt, Dhaulagiri, Nilgiri, and beautiful Kagbeni Jomsom valley too.  The journey enters between Dhaulagiri and the Annapurna forming world’s deepest gorge of the Kali-Gandaki River. You should be prepared in the early morning to be ready for Pokhara before leaving for the land of paradise mustang Nepal.

After breakfast, we will drive back to Kathmandu and it’s a long drive through the countryside with Trishuli River. The tourist bus leaves from the tourist bus park near the lake side and everyday bus leaves at 7:30 am after that unable to get a tourist bus on the day. An exciting overland journey back to Kathmandu by tourist A/C bus en route to observe farm villages and towns and then reach Kathmandu.

Note: Besides the long drive to Kathmandu you can take a short flight to Kathmandu from Pokhara. It is a short scenic flight and gets plenty to discover the beautiful Pokhara or historical Kathmandu city before you leave Nepal.