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Hotel Buddha, Chaksibari Marg, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal
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Mardi Himal Trek via Poon Hill Trekking Holiday in Nepal
Time in a beautiful, calming environment allows space for you to gain perspective on your priorities in life, develop insight into what might be going wrong, and strategize how to manifest the life of you satisfied with and excited by. Trek the majestic Himalayan Mountains to jump-start your health and calm your mind. Re-set and re-align your mental and physical health.
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Bella
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Highlights
- 8 days of trekking
- Sunrise at Poon Hill
- Enjoy the hot springs at Jinudanda
- Varied scenery of natural beauty and charming mountain villages
- Beautiful panoramic views of ‘Fishtail’ Mountain and Annapurna South
- Opportunity for mental and physical reset and realignment
- 11 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Beginner
Yoga styles
8 days with instruction
Group size: 3-9 participants
Airport transfer included:
Tribhuvan International Airport
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
14:00
Check-out Time:
11:00
Guesthouses are comfortable – a bed, pillow, duvet, and sheets are provided (sleeping bag needed but they can organise for you out in Nepal) and heated dining rooms, home cooked meals, sometimes you will even find a western toilet otherwise squatting ones. In the cities you stay in nice hotels – a more luxury option can be arranged at additional cost.
Nepalese people are legendary for their smiles and friendly spirit.
Program
Trekking boosts physical and mental wellbeing, connects one with nature, and manifests a calm mind as one leaves stressors behind.
Bella’s role as a mountain leader and yoga instructor is to facilitate safety, support, and management throughout the experience. You work with a Nepalese guide named Raman and porters to carry your bag to make the trek a little easier on the legs.
This eight-day trek through the Annapurna Sanctuary is ideal for those interested in a fun adventure, meeting like-minded people, pursuing a health goal, wanting perspective on life, seeking more peace of mind and so much more.
Breaking habit patterns back home requires huge amounts of effort and focus when surrounded by familiar temptations and actions that don’t serve your long-term health goals; like habitually drinking too much, eating foods that don’t align with balance, or going straight to the TV after work.
It's very nourishing to be free of most of your responsibilities and stressors for a time and go back with a renewed sense of perspective, motivation, and clarity.
Time in a beautiful, calming environment allows space for you to gain perspective on your priorities in life, develop insight into what might be going wrong, and strategize how to manifest the life you are satisfied with and excited by.
Difficulty
Strenuous, suitable for anyone with some trekking experience and a good level of fitness. Steady acclimatization allows the body to heal and adapt to higher altitudes.
Sample daily schedule
- 07:00 Sometimes morning yoga
- Breakfast
- Packing
- Leave for days hiking accompanied by a local guide – you will rest roughly every 45 minutes and allow muscles to rest for 15 minutes to maximize weight loss and minimize muscle and joint damage – but also rest breaks can happen whenever you want them
- Lunch along the way
- Arrive early afternoon
- Optional yoga
- 18:00 dinner
Itinerary
Day 1
Airport pick up to bring you to your comfortable accommodation, then meet everyone at a delish restaurant.
Day 2
At 7 a.m., take a bus to Pokhara (6 - 7 hours). After you arrive, kit check, then buy any last-minute stuff and last supper before your expedition.
Day 3
Take a taxi to the start of the trek (1525 meters) then walk through charming villages before a steep ascent up steps to Ulleri (1940 meters) - 9 kilometers, 5 hours. There will be yoga on the garden lawn.
Day 4
Morning yoga at 7 a.m. At 8 a.m., have breakfast. From Ulleri up through the beautiful Rhododendron forest to Ghorepani (2750 meters) - 8 kilometers, 4 hours.
Day 5
Sunrise walk to Poon Hill (3210 meters). Trek for one hour and 15 minutes where you’ll get a panorama view of the Annapurnas then down for breakfast. Afterward, set off through majestic root-embedded paths and past a waterfall descending finishing with a climb of stairs up to Tadapani the down to Chile, 12 kilometers (7 hours). Today's yoga session is on the garden lawn.
Day 6
Morning yoga at 7 a.m. From Chile down and up the valley through farms stopping at the infamous Chhromong Cottage for lunch along the way to Jhinu danda (1780 meters - 6 hours) where you’ll relax in nature's hot springs next to a river. It is about 20 minutes walk down the valley. (10 kilometers, 5.5 hours).
Day 7
Down the valley from Jhinu to New Bridge, 1500 meters, then up via Landruck where you begin the steep ascent to Forest Camp (2500 meters). Lunch to break up the steep ascent. (Yoga on the garden lawn), 10 kilometers, 5.5 hours.
Day 8
Morning yoga at 7 a.m. Today you go from Forest Camp to High Camp (3550 meters). Along the route, you’ll enjoy beautiful panoramic views of the mountains as you get closer to the dramatic mountains, 7 kilometers (4 hours).
Day 9
Sunrise walk to the Upper View Point (4200 meters) then on to Mardi Himal Base Camp (4500 meters) to see Fishtail up close and get jaw-droppingly beautiful panoramic views. Descending down to Low Camp (3000 meters). Yoga on the lawn. 13 kilometers, 8 hours.
Day 10
Morning yoga at 6:30 a.m. (20 minutes of gentle yoga on the patio). From High Camp, you will descend to Siding (1900 meters) before you get on a jeep back to Pokhara and enjoy a celebratory meal together, 7 kilometers, 2.5 hours.
Day 11
At 7 a.m., take a bus back to Kathmandu. For your last evening, you will have dinner in Boudhanath which has one of the largest unique structure’s stupas in the world. Tibetan merchants have rested and offered prayers here for many centuries. When refugees entered Nepal from Tibet in the 1950s, many decided to live around Boudhanath. The Stupa is said to entomb the remains of Kassapa Buddha. Enjoy a cocktail and your final celebratory dinner together.
Day 12
Breakfast in the hotel then adios on your flight home.
Instructors
Bella Somerset
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Bella helps people find balance and build confidence by supporting her clients on retreat. It is hard to break habit patterns back home when familiar temptations and triggers surround you. She struggled with her mental health and her eating habits, now having found her balance, she shares her tools with others. Bella is a certified health coach from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and a yoga teacher. Her coaching is a two-steps-forward, one-step-back approach, learning from mistakes, letting go of perfection, and accepting you’ll make mistakes again in the future.
Retreat location
Nepal is a landlocked country between India and China, it has a population of 26.4 million, it is mostly mountain region but also has fertile flatlands bordering India (a bit politically contentious), 81% Hindu, 9% Buddhist, and it has eight of the world's 10 tallest mountains. Its economy is based on agriculture and tourism. It is the most amazing country in the world.
Food
The food along the trail is delicious, nutritious, and mostly locally grown. There is traditional food on the menu of Dhal Bhat (rice, lentils, and curry) or Western-style foods have crept in – pasta, pizzas, rice dishes, potato dishes, eggs, muesli, porridge, and pancakes. Bella can help guide you on choosing nourishing nutritious choices while also allowing you to choose whatever you want to refuel your body after a hard day trekking.
Meat is something that is avoided in the mountains as it can often make you sick.
All breakfasts included and lunch and dinner included when you're trekking in the mountains.
Water is not included. You can buy chlorine tablets, pay for treated water refills, or buy water bottles. Bella advises chlorine tablets or water refills to limit the contribution to the waste disposal limitations in the mountains in Nepal. Hotels in the city will have water refill areas.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Other dietary requirements on request
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
You can extend your trip - Relax post-trek and treat yourself to delicious, cheap meals and cocktails in Kathmandu and Pokhara, enjoy a massage, go paddle-boarding on Pokhara Lake, enjoy yoga sessions in a studio, or do some gift shopping.
What's included
- 3 meals a day during the trek: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Breakfasts in the cities
- Permits for trekking
- Qualified Nepalese trekking guide
- Trekking porter to carry your bag
- 11 nights accommodation - mountain guesthouse and city hotels
- Transfers within Nepal
- Mountain yoga sessions as per the itinerary - on grass or patio, without mats
What's not included
- Flights to Nepal
- Visa fees - passport photo and dollars needed on arrival (15 days: 30 USD)
- Travel insurance – up to 6000 meters helicopter evacuation and COVID cover
- Personal expenses, including but not limited to: phone calls, laundry, costs of alcohol, recharging batteries, additional porters, bottled or boiled water, and showers among others
- Lunch and dinners in the cities
- Tips for local guide and porter
- Vitamin supplements
- Kit
- 2 x optional yoga sessions in the cities in a studio
- Additional activities in Pokhara
How to get there
Recommended Airports
KTM
Tribhuvan International Airport
5 km
Transfer included
Airport: Tribhuvan International Airport
Airport transfer included: Tribhuvan International Airport
No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 21 days before arrival.
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