Guerrilla Trekking

Day 01: Kathmandu – Beni (830m) 7 – 9 hours

Drive to Beni with Nepalese supporter, It will take 8-10 hours depending upon traffic and busy schedule. Today we will cross 292 KMs passing Mugling, Damauli, Pokhara, and Baglung. on the day drive, you can enjoy gorging rivers, traditional settlements, crop fields, and lifestyle. Overnight at Beni.

Day 02: Beni-Takam (5 – 7 hours)

From the Myagdi district headquarters, you follow a gravel road for 24km. Darbang and start walking. Takam is a three-hour walk away with Gurjal, Himal towering overhead. O/N camp at 1665m.

Day 03: Takam-Lamsung (2250 m) 5 – 7hours.

This is where the scenery starts getting even more dramatic. This is what Nepal used to be like before the trekkers got here. Locals are not used to feigners and have a lot of stories to tell about the war. O/N camp at 2250m.

Day 04: Lamsung-Gurjaghat (3015m) 5 – 7 hours

Ascend through dense pine forests, with musk deer barking in the bushes. The grazing land on the ridge offers 180-degree views of Dhaulagiri the entire range up to Churen Himal in the west. 

Day 05: Gurjaghat-Dhorpatan (2870m) 4-5 hours

You cross over from Myagdi to Baglung and into the former Tibetan refugee camp which was serviced by an airfield built by the Swiss in the 1950s. This is also the entrance to Dhorpatan, a Hunting Reserve, where you can spot mountain goats and blue sheep (Bharal). 

Day 06: Dhorpatan-NisiDhor (2620m) 5-6 hours

This is a heaven for birds. Watch Danphes (national bird of Nepal) pheasants and other migratory sorts that you have seen only in bird guides. Stiff to imagine that people fought a war here. There are cow sheds in the monsoon, but in the winter these high pastures are deserted. O/N at camp.

Day 07: Nisidhor-Tall to Sera (2185 m) 5-7 hours.

Traverse over from Baglung to Rukum into the Magar region and enter the former Maoist base area. There are dense forests all the way, so it must have been easy to hide here during the insurgency. The villages are picturesque and there is always some kind of Magar festival going on. O/N at camp.

Day 08: Tallo Sera-Rujhikhola: 5-7 hours

Hike to Lukum in Rukum, a village populated only by Magars and Dalits (low cast), where you can glance at their lifestyle, housing, costume and more with natural beauties along with walking on crops field and near jungle areas. Ke to Lukum in Rukum, a village populated only by Magars and Dalits (low cast). This is about as medieval as it gets in Nepal nowadays. O/N camp at tent or Homestay.

Day 09: Rujhikhola- Thabang (1975m) 5-6 hours

Thabang is the cradle of the Maoist revolution. It was damaged in army attacks and parts of the town were flattened by ‘tora bora’ mortar shells dropped from helicopters. There has been some development of infrastructure after the war ended, and the people are eager and friendly.

Day 10: Thabang-Jaljala(3090m) 5-6 hours

The highest point in Jaljale is Dharampani (3900m) and there is a great view from Apisaipal in the west to Dhaulagiri in the east. O/N at camp.

Day 11: Jaljala to Jelbang (1635m): 5-7 hours

Now we’re moving down from the high mountains and the village is ethnically mixed.

Day 12: Jelbang-Suliochaur (830m)5-7 hours

This is where we finally get to Rolpa and the road head. Rolpa was also a rebel base area and for many of the ten years of war under total Maoist control. You can eat at one of the many commune restaurants run by Maoist cooperative, where the staff is relatives of those who were killed in the war. O/N at camp.

Day 13: Sulichaur to Kathmandu (10 – 12 hours by bus).

Drive back to Kathmandu from Sulichaur, we will back on different highways of the lower land of Nepal; called Terai, and near from Chitwan National Park we follow the river called Narayani-Trishuli almost to Kathmandu. 

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