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Tsum Valley Trek- 17 Days

Lifestyle of Tsum valley.

Trip cost start from: US$ 1615

Trip Destination:Nepal

Total Duration:17 Days

Difficulty:Strenous

Trekking Days:13

Nature :At guesthouse & hotel

Best Season:Mar - May & Sept - Nov.

Max. Altitude:3700 m. Mu Gumba

Trekking Per Day :Approximately 6 hrs

Transportation :By jeep/ bus

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Glimpse of this trip:

Fascinating view of Ganesh Himalayan Range
Buddhist religion & culture
Lots of traditional villages & villagers lifestyle
Ancient Buddhist temple & monastery

Tsum valley trek is very interesting because it focus on the local traditional culture, custom and language of the people. It’s also one of the trekking routes of the Manaslu region which is still very authentic. Tsum valley is rich in ancient art, culture and Buddhist religion. The people here of this region are very friendly and hospitable in the nature and follow age-old lifestyle and their culture. The local people here are origin from the Tibet. They speak a unique closed to Tibetan. The main religion practiced by the people here is Buddhism so this trekking route is reach on Buddhist culture. In addition it has natural treasures of clear streams, teeming vegetation, mountains, beautiful waterfalls, along with natural hot springs and ancient residue of natural scene and beauty. The valley is lies among the mount Sringi Himal and Ganesh Himal.

This trek begins after drive from Kathamndu to Sithikhola. It takes approximately 7/ 8hrs from Kathmandu by local bus or jeep. Our journey starts from Sothikhola to Mu Gumba (3950 m) is the highest elevation of this trip from there you can observe monastery and fascinating views of Ghanesh Himalayan Range.

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Detail Itinerary

Day 01Arrival at Kathmandu airport and transfer to hotel. Overnight at hotel.

Day 02Rest day in Kathmandu along with trek preparation. Overnight at hotel.

Day 03Drive from Kathmandu to Sothikhola (730 m) about 7/ 8 hrs by private vehicle. Overnight at guesthouse.

Day 04Trek from Sothikhola to Machchhakhola (930 m) about 4/ 5 hrs trek. Overnight at guesthouse.

Day 05Trek from Machchhakhola to Jagat (1410 m) about 7/ 8 hrs trek. Overnight at guesthouse.

Day 06Trek from Jagat to Lokpa (2240 m) about 6/ 7 hrs trek. Overnight at guesthouse.

Day 07Trek from Lokpa to Chumling (2450 m) about 4/ 5 hrs trek. Overnight at guesthouse.

Day 08Trek from Chumling to Chhekampar (3030 m) about 6/ 7 hrs trek. Overnight at guesthouse.

Day 09Trek from Chhekampar to Nile (3360 m) about 6 hrs trek. Overnight at guesthouse.

Day 10Trek from Nile to Mu Gumba (3700 m) about 4 hrs trek. Overnight at guesthouse.

Day 11Trek from Mu Gumba to Rachen Gumba (3240 m) about 5 hrs trek. Overnight at guesthouse.

Day 12Exploration day in Rachen Gumba; visit the Milarepa Cave, Lamagaon, Lar village & Rachen Gumba.

Day 13Trek from Rachen Gumba to Ripche (2470 m) about 6/ 7 hrs trek. Overnight at guesthouse.

Day 14Trek from Ripche to Philim (1590 m) about 6 hrs trek. Overnight at guesthouse.

Day 15Trek from Philim to Dobhan (1070 m) about 6 hrs trek. Overnight at guesthouse.

Day 16Trek from Dobhan to Lapubensi (880 m) about 6 hrs trek. Overnight at guesthouse.

Day 17Drive from Lapubensi to Kathmandu about 8/ 9 hrs by private vehicle. Overnight at hotel.

Cost Include

All additional government tax.
All necessary trekking permits.
Airport picks and drops by private vehicle.
Hotel in Kathmandu (3 nights) with B&B base.
Accommodation in lodge/ guesthouse during trekking.
Meal on full menu (breakfast, lunch and dinner) with tea and coffee during the trek.
Accommodation, salary, travels insurance, transportation of Nepali trekking staff.
An experienced government licensed trekking guide and porter (1 porter for 2 trekkers).
All land transportation by private vehicle Kathmandu-Sothikhola & Lapubensi-Kathmandu.

Cost Exclude

International air fare.
Lunch and dinner in Kathmandu.
Your travel insurance (Compulsory).
Tips to guide and porter and all kind of Drinks.
Nepal entry visa fee (U$ 40 for 30 days from date of issue).
Bar bills, telephone bills and other personal expenses (shopping, laundry & shower).
All expenses due to sudden events e.g. personal illness, strike etc.

Approximately Individual Expenditure on the Spot

Lunch or dinner in Kathmandu (10- 15 US$) per item
Mineral water per bottle (1-3 US$)
Hot shower (1-3 US$)

Note: The others expenses are depend on you (shopping, hard drinks, etc.) and situation (flight cancellation, rescue, etc.). If you depart earlier than itinerary program your payment will not be refunded and early arrival expenditure also will not be covered by your trip cost.

Trip Info

Accommodation: We provide wide range of accommodation service for traveller as per there request from 5 star hotel to normal guest house in main city areas where available, while the price of the trip might alter on that basis. Tsum valley is destination for wide range of trekking route and packages, good quality of accommodation options are available there.

Food /Meals: Cities areas in Nepal offer excellent and variety of food and cuisines as it has many hotels and restaurants. National/ international food, Local food, cultural food, fast food, dessert items, snacks etc are easily available in cities areas. While in case of remote areas one can enjoy Local food grown and prepared. Langtang Region is famous for trekking and travelling, food of good quality are available but option and variety might be less in compared to main cities area.

Drinking Water: We highly advise to minimize use of plastic during the trek. Please always remember that there is no any plastic recycle facilities up in the Mountains. In this regard we highly recommend you to use boiled water for drinking or use water purification tables instead of buying water in plastic bottles. Your Trekking Guide will suggest you the best and most ecological friendly way for drinking water during a trek depending on a trek area. We advise to have your own water bottle with you for the whole trek which you can refill at the lodge/camp-site in the evening and morning or at lunch break on the way.

Best Season: As what one can see highly depend upon the seasonal condition, it is always best to travel on the best season for the corresponding trek. It not that on season other than the best one, the trek gets worse, but one can fully take advantage of the trek when done in best season. The best season for this trek is Mar-April/Sep-May. This trek can be done throughout the year.

Expert Team: Working your way through dangerous mountainous route can be very challenging and overwhelming. One can encounter stamina, high altitude, weather condition, steeply and slippery path way while travelling depending upon the route one choose. So leading the trip despite of all the challenges requires experienced and expert people who are directly under our care. They are properly trained and government certified individual who are very capable and knowledgeable to work out through extreme condition and lead you safely. All of our staff are provided with insurance, medical services and equipment as their safety is something we do not take lightly.

Equipment and Travel Packing Ideas: It is our utmost belief that carrying appropriate and proper equipment is better than carrying excessive quantity of equipment. So one should only carry appropriate and only absolute necessary equipment with them. Warm clothes, trouser, t-shirts, hiking boots, sunglasses, sun cream, knife, walking stick, backpack, headlight, sleeping bags are among the essential stuff one requires. Equipment we provide are limited so, one should carry required equipment by them or it can be bought in any appropriate places.

Clothing: Liner socks, Trekking shirts short sleeve, Thermal underwear, fleece sweaters lightweight, one heavier Easy drying long sleeved base layer shirts, woolen blends trekking socks, pair trekking pants with zip off bottoms, down vest, wind/rain proof over layer - jacket and pants, peak hat, headband, Warm winter hat, lightweight thermal layer hat, pair gloves, down jacket, Pair trekking boots, pair down booties Great for keeping feet warm in room and while sleeping and for in the lodge. In case if you decide to join the trek with us, do enquiry about clothing requirement before leaving as there might be slight changes in requirement depending on season and travelling date.

Safety and Security: Safety and security of traveller and team staff is matter of great concern to us. Selection of proper route, highly trained professional team and equipment required is done with great care and knowledge. We have proper remedial services during the trek with professional staffs; first aid kit, oxygen bag and helicopter service for emergency rescue whenever trekkers get physical loss or altitude sickness.

Experience and Fitness: Though high level of fitness and previous experience is not needed for trekking in this reason but food stamina, workout and running and walking habit helps to higher extent. Walking trough rocky steeply path way can be challenging but with appropriate rest and walking habit, one can complete their journey with no regret left behind.

Acclimatization: Acclimatization is important for the trekking above 3500 m. Our trekking schedules have been carefully designed to maximize your ability to acclimatize safely. We ascend slowly and ensure an adequate number of rest days. However, it is still possible for mountain sickness and your tour leader will be watching for symptoms with an experienced eye throughout the trip. These symptoms are commonly headache, nausea, lethargy and sometime breathlessness. If you or any of the group members display any of these symptoms he will be able to provide informed advice and ensure a proper course of action. Your tour leader will advise you more thoroughly regarding the altitude and most of the problems prior to starting on trail.

Equipment List

Trekking Equipments List

Trekking is simply walking in the hills or the mountains, be it for a day or weeks or more. Certain basic trekking equipment is essential while you're trekking to any parts of the trekking destinations in Nepal. The items may differ from the area to area and on season to season. The following are the list of the equipment that we suggest you for your trekking in Nepal Himalaya.

Clothing:

Worm down jackets 1pc

Woolen shirts and thick sweaters.

Waterproof jacket with hood or poncho.
Sleeping Bag

Tracksuit

Track shoes

Trousers

Thermal Underwear and Thermal coat

2 pair of loose fitting long shorts/ skirts

Pair of gloves

Pair of sandals

Thermal underwear.

Woolen hat

Long sleeved shirt.

Towel and hankies.

Light weight walking boots

2 pairs of thin socks and 2 pair of woolen socks

Equipment's and Accessories:

Snow glasses and sunglasses
Trekking Sticks 1 pair.
Duffle bag or kit bag to carry to gear while trekking.
2-4 plastics bags 2-4 large plastic bags to separate clean clothes from dirty ones. 6-10 smaller plastic bags to dispose garbage.
Daypack bag to carry your personal requirements.
Water Bottle, water purifying tablets
Toilet articles and towels, Toilet paper
Umbrella (optional)
Headlamp/ torch
Binocular, Camera, trekking map and compass, pillow, knife, passport photograph, reading materials, pencil, rubber, pen and notebook, lip guard
Toilet papers (we can buy at guesthouse on the trek).

Medical:

Small, personal first-aid kit. (simple and light)
Aspirin, first-aid tape, and plasters (Band-Aids)
1 skin-blister repair kit
Anti-diarrhea pills
Anti-headache pills
Cough and/or cold medicine
Anti-altitude sickness pills: Diamox or Acetylzolamide
Stomach antibiotic: Ciprofloxacin, etc. Do not bring sleeping pills as they are a respiratory depressant.
Water purification tablets or water filter
1 set of earplugs
Extra pair of prescription glasses, contact lens supplies

Details of Trekking Equipment's:

Camp shoes/sandals: A luxury for your feet at the end of the day. Sandals or running shoes will be better you can buy for cheap in Kathmandu.

Thermal shirts/underwear: Good thermals, both tops and bottoms are the best for cold weather in trekking.

Nightwear thermals: Good for making warm nights in the sleeping bag, Silk-weight is lightest and warm.

Fleece/sweatpants: Good for the cold evening and morning.

Day-wear T-shirts/ shirts: On the lower altitude trekking weather will be hot, T-shirts and shirts are recommended.

Trekking pants: Recommended to have 2 pairs.

Windproof & waterproof pants: If your trekking pants are reasonably windproof then special wind pants are not needed. If you do bring a pair, it is not necessary to have Gore-tex. Similar, non-waterproof is quite ok.

Underwear: Regular everyday type.

Neck gaiter: For winter trekking they are really the best for staying warm.

Trekking poles: Trekking poles are very useful especially for downhill, in popular trekking in Nepal you can buy the wooden trekking poles selling by children, trekking can be done without trekking poles also.

Sunglasses: Good wraparound glasses suitable for snow, it’s bright up there, but specialized glacier glasses with side pieces are not needed. Contact lens wearers report very few problems except cleaning them in the conditions.

Mittens/gloves: A good pair of wind-proof gloves is essential. You can buy in Kathmandu cheap if you don’t have it.

Sun hat/woolen hat: Trekking in spring and summer of lower altitude is hotter and whole day sun shining, you can bring the hat or small cap to protect from Sunburn, on the upper part of trek more cold and windy so you can have woolen hat to make your head warmer.

First aid kit: All our trekking our tour and trek leaders carry the first aid kit box including the medicine for altitude sickness and diaoheria and other small problems, you should bring any personal medicines that you need, sometime your local medicine is more effective than we provide.

Water purification: We can buy the mineral water on the tea house trek. The cost depends on region & altitude. If you don’t buy the mineral water bring the water purification & filter.

Water bottle: Two water bottles are recommend 1 liters bottles, bring the good one to take boiling water and be leak proof, European Aluminum bottles are best .
Torch / flashlight: Flash light or head lamp is necessary with extra battery.

Towel: During the trekking there is no available towel at guest houses so you need one small and light towel for trekking.

Sunscreen & lip balm with sunscreen: The sun is strong at altitude, especially after snow. Bring at least sunscreen and lip balm WITH SPF 15, and better still SPF 30+. You can buy in Kathmandu.

Moisturizer: The air is dry and windier with dust some part of the trek so moisturizer is good to car for skins. Environmental point of view because of the plastic bottles, hot and boiled water can get from the guest house. Iodine tablets and water purification drop chlorine is recommended to take.

Toiletries: shampoo, soap, scissors, hair products, tooth brush and tooth paste, tissues, sun cream, chap stick, antiseptic hand wipes, face washer etc.

Daypack: This should be comfortable and a good waist band that transfers some of the weight to the hips is most important. It needs to be big enough to take a jacket, fleece, water, camera and odds and ends. Kathmandu now offers a range of cheap fall-part packs to top of the range.

Footwear: One pair of sturdy light to middle-weight hiking boots. Typically these are combination of nylon and leather. We suggest boots with a Gore-tax lining to be waterproof. These types of shoes have a lug sole for good traction and provide lateral support for the ankles that is essential while hiking (for example; the Vasquez Clarion and the A solo Approach). Heavy-weight all-leather backpacking boots are not recommended. Be sure your footwear is broken in and fits well. Boots should fit comfortably over one thin liner sock and a mid-weight wool sock. This reduces chafing and blisters. Tennis shoes or sandals are also useful for in camp use or bathing.

Socks: Four pairs of liner socks. Four pairs of mid-weight wool socks. Socks and footwear should be coordinated for a proper fit.

Back pack: For travel in Nepal and for trekking a back pack is more suitable than a suit case. If you plan on trekking, hiking a sturdy and comfortable back pack and day pack is essential. You should have your back pack expertly fitted to you before your departure. Your back pack should also have a water proof cover. Normally you need 2 one is 60 litters and another 25 is more suitable.

Sleeping bag: Down-filled sleeping bags are better for Nepal tour and trekking. Beg, borrow or steal a good one (i.e. 4-5 season) because high altitude nights will be cold. Good down is fluffy, light and thick. A muff (an extra section around the neck) makes a big difference to the overall warmth of a bag. Reasonable sleeping bags are cheaply available for rent or buy in Kathmandu. We advise you to take -15 is batter.

Sleeping bag liner: Cotton, silk or fleece. Saves washing your sleeping bag and adds warmth.

Down jacket/Gore-Tex: This jacket is needed for trekking up to 3200m also cold in the evening and morning, if you don’t have it and wanted to use for only Nepal trekking you can rented in Nepal.

Fleece jacket: Most trekkers consider this essential, but alternatives are a thick thermal top or a light down jacket. In Kathmandu you can get almost any sort of copy fleece you need.

Rain jacket/ wind shell: The jacket should be very water repellent and roomy.

Layering: Keeping the proper temperature is best accomplished by adding or taking off layers of clothing. While hiking during the day, you may be in shorts or skirt and a long-sleeved shirt. During the evening, as the temperature cools, you will add a sweater and, perhaps, a parka. Bringing the items outlined below will ensure that you are adequately prepared. Make sure that your clothing is sized to allow your layers and still move comfortably.