Four UNESCO World Heritage sites, one sacred river, and a sunrise over the Himalaya — all in six easy days. This tour threads through the Kathmandu Valley’s three royal Durbar Squares and the hilltop stupa of Swayambhunath, then trades the city for a night in the hills at Nagarkot, where the Annapurna-to-Everest skyline unfolds at dawn. No trekking required, just Nepal’s deepest history and its biggest views, back to back.
Climb Island Peak (6,189m) — the most popular trekking peak in Nepal — via the EBC trail with a high-camp acclimatisation programme and professional climbing guide.
Nepal’s most beautiful city — Pokhara’s Phewa Lake reflects the Annapurna range at dawn; Sarangkot ridge delivers the finest accessible Himalayan sunrise in the country.
Circle the entire Annapurna massif on the world’s most celebrated long-distance trek — crossing the 5,416m Thorong La Pass and traversing landscapes ranging from subtropical to high-alpine Tibetan plateau.
Reach both the north and south base camps of Kanchenjunga (8,586m) — the world’s 3rd highest mountain — in one of Nepal’s most remote, unspoiled trekking regions.
Nepal’s largest lake (Rara, 2,990m) sits in a national park of extraordinary biodiversity in the far northwest — pristine, rarely visited, and heartbreakingly beautiful.
The ultimate Khumbu circuit — crossing Renjo La (5,360m), Cho La (5,420m), and Kongma La (5,535m) in one epic three-week journey through the heart of Everest country.
The easiest Himalayan sunrise in Nepal — drive to Nagarkot (2,175m) on the Kathmandu Valley rim for a dawn view of eight mountain ranges including Everest, then trek down through Bhaktapur.
Seven UNESCO World Heritage monuments, three medieval city-kingdoms, living goddess temples, and 2,500 years of Newari civilisation — all within a single valley.
The Gokyo Lakes Trek is the quieter alternative to Everest Base Camp, trading crowded trails for a chain of six turquoise glacial lakes and a summit morning on Gokyo Ri, where Everest, Cho Oyu, Lhotse and Makalu all sit in view at once. The route climbs the Gokyo Valley at a pace built around two proper acclimatisation days, then descends the same trail back through Dole and Namche to Lukla. Twelve days, one flight in and one flight out, and a trail that stays genuinely quiet the whole way.
One note on the new descent: since you’re now retracing the ascent route rather than looping back through Tengboche and Dingboche, the return-leg day narratives are close mirrors of the outbound ones (Dole, Namche again). If this goes into the brochure, it might be worth varying the descriptive language for those days, since the walking is genuinely different even on a repeat trail (all downhill momentum, less careful pacing, a different light on the peaks in the afternoon) so it shouldn’t just read as a rehash of days 5 and 6 backwards.