Arrival and Transfer to Hotel
You will arrive either by air or land to Nepal. If you arrive Nepal by air, you have to use the only Tribhuvan International Airport. Instead, if you use the road, you can enter or arrive Nepal by land, you can different borders of Neighboring countries (India and China) like Rupaidia, Jogbani, Raksaul, Sunauli, Nepaljung, Dhangadi, Chandani Dodhara, Birjung, Kakarvitta, Jhapa, Morang, Tatopani, Tinker, Rasuawagadi, Kimanthanka etc. You can use whichever entrances you like to suit your comfort and convenience.
On Arrival, you will have the on arrival visa instantly if you have not applied Nepal visa for Nepal through the consulate centers or Nepal Embassies nearby you or your city. Within half an hour, you can get an instant authentic visa on your passport after producing all required documents for visa.
But, majority of people/trekkers enter Nepal by air and that is via Tribhuvan International Airport. We receive you at the arrival of any entry points of Nepal or mainly at Tribhuvan International Airport without any delay according to your arrival time. It may take some time like 20-30 minutes to collect your luggage and for security checking at the airport. After that, you make your way to the exit of the airport and Haven Holidays Pvt. Ltd. Representative will be waiting there holding the Board Witten “Haven Holidays Pvt. Ltd” and as you see the board, you have to go with him or her and we will make a very comfortable transfer to the hotel you are staying overnight. The transfer from Tribhuvan International Airport and Thamel, the hotel where you are staying will take just 15-20 minutes drive. Don’t get scared with the chaos and heavy traffic on the way to the hotel from Airport.
Get checked in hotel and take rest and get refreshed. We will give you the time for orientation after you get checked in the hotel.
Check if everything is fine with the accommodation you are using tonight.
Orientation
As you are given the time when you get checked in the hotel, you will be followed by our staff for the orientation. It may be on the same day or later the next day early in the morning at breakfast.
We will briefly let you know the trip you are undertaking from the next day or from the same day onwards. You will be stated about the highlights of the trip, preparations, equipment, food and accommodation, guide and porter, emergency rescue, travel insurance and many other important things to know beforehand.
We will introduce you the trip crew and have a brief talk to them so that you can feel more convenient during the trip.
If you have any query, you can put them in this orientation meeting before you depart for your trip.
Last Minute Booking
Last minute booking is always open for you but the same package tends to be little more costly that the regular departure dates trip packages. Actually, those who approach for last minute booking with us; they must pay 10% additional cost of the total trip cost mentioned in our website.
You can book the trip you like in our website even a day prior to the trip begin.
If you are lucky, then, the last minute may be a golden opportunity for you to get the same price or even less than that if one of the members of the trip gives up and withdraws the trip plan at eleventh minute. So, if you are late to book the trip you really like to do with us, no worries, you still have option and we will try our level best to make your trip successful and grand as other normal trips.
Don’t’ hesitate to hit the booking button at the eleventh hour, we are always open and here to organize your vacation trips in Nepal.
Trip Extension
We are always flexible and open to the extension of the particular trip you are undertaking. If you really enjoy the trip you are doing, you can extend it to longer days or to longer hours. But, for this, you must contact us one day prior so that we can arrange the required things like trip crew, accommodation, transportation and other minor needy things for your extended trip. If you let us know a day earlier directly or through the trip crew you are using in the field/route like through your trip leader, you will have a beautiful time ahead. For the extension of trip, you must add some little additional cost which we will settle in mutual understanding.
Currency Exchange
You can exchange your currency even in the Tribhuvan International Airport at your arrival or you can exchange it after you check in the hotel in Thamel or in other several places of Kathmandu Valley, Pokhara, Chitwan, Nagarkot, Lumbini or any trekking beginning points as well. You’d better exchange your currency with Nepali ones in Thamel as they give a good exchange rate. You can find several money exchange counters in different corners of Thamel city. You can directly go there and can exchange your currency with Nepali ones.
If you are in rush and you cannot do this, you can pay USD or AUD or CAD to the people whom you need to pay like for your accommodation, foods, trips costs, tipping etc. You can even get the exchange of your currency with Nepali on the trekking routes/trip routes like in Lukla, Namche, Pokhara, Besisahar, Manang etc. You can ask to exchange your currency with Nepal ones with local lodges/restaurants/hotels/ guesthouses too. But, you need to have your currency like USD, AUD or CAD. Even Indian currency doest work in Nepal while paying but only Rs. 100 rupees not 500 and 1000. You can pay with your own currency with the current exchange rate wherever you go in Nepal. No worries guys!!
HH Team
Haven Holidays Team is very professional, reliable and responsible. You can completely on them. They are well trained, friendly and highly literate in respective languages. You can share anything you like with them without any hesitation. They know local culture, civilization, history, foods and accommodation, weather condition, expert in first-aid application and how to handle the sudden accidents on the trip. They are eco-friendly and better understand the non-humans rights and their lives.
However, we kindly request not to exploit them and provoke them on the trip for your personal benefits. You can enjoy your trip with them at fullest but at the same time we humbly appeal not to try to change their mindset, perspectives, religion and culture that are following.
Haven Holidays Team will assist you in every step of your trip to make it memorable and more convenient.
Luggage and the Storage
If you are hiring the porter for your trip in the mountain, you can pack no more than 9 kg. in the duffel bag or in your own backpack. We provide you a very reliable duffel bag to put your stuffs to be carried in the trip. It will be very safe to be carried by porter .Because it is the international labor rule that a porter can only maximum 18 kgs in the mountain. Please, don’t pack unnecessary stuffs in the duffel bag. Actually, two people can share one duffel bag and one porter by putting 9k stuff by each individual.
If you think you don’t need the stuffs you have with you in the mountain, you can store at the hotel in Kathmandu or even in Pokhara if you are passing through it. The best way to keep your unnecessary stuffs is in Kathmandu hotel. They will keep your unnecessary luggage/stuffs very safely till your return back. Ask you trip leader or hotel receptionist to do it for you before you depart for the trip. Don’t forget to take the luggage tag while storing the unnecessary luggage.
Meals
Meals will be provided according to the itinerary and cost includes and cost excludes. If you are given the itinerary or cost include like including BB only, you will be provided breakfast only and if the if you have booked the trip package like including full-board meal, you will get all the meals including breakfast, dinner and lunch. Apart from main meals, if you have tea, coffee, cold drinks and other alcoholic drinks, you have to pay them personally.
During the trip, you will be given enough time to have the meal. You can enjoy the meal you like from the menu. Vegan, Vegetarian?? If you are vegetarian, you will still find the choice in the menu and our guide will take a good care of you thorough the trip.
You will have your meal at the lodge/local guesthouse, hotel or resort during the trip. You are supposed to have the meal where you stay overnight in the mountain during the trekking trip.
Sometimes, you may not get the item you want in the mountain during the trekking trip/touring trip, at the time; you have to consider it very calmly.
You will enjoy freshly cooked meals in the mountain during the trip days with local ingredient
Trek Starts
The trek commences from Kathmandu with a flight to Pokhara and then jeep ride to Jhino Danda. The flight to Pokhara from Kathmandu is only for 40 minutes and then the jeep drive to Jhino Danda is for 2-3 hours along the off-road. However, the drive will be adventurous and exciting with marvelous country, mountain and rivers views.
You arrive at Jhino Danda via Pokhara city, you will enjoy natural hot spring here.
Electricity and Water
You will get good and undisturbed facility of electricity during the trip in Nepal. Even though you go to the mountain for trekking and other adventure activities, you can get the facility of electricity to change your phones and backups for free. However, in some cases you may have to face the problem of load-shedding and the local lodges and guesthouses may charge you some amount like Rs. 100-200 to charge your batteries, backups and phones in remote area trekking like upper Mustang Trekking, Upper Dolpo Trekking, Annapurna Circuit Trekking and Manaslu Circuit Trekking. Otherwise, in Annapurna region trekking and Everest Region trekking, you don’t need to pay for battery, phone and backups charging on the trail. But, there won’t be electricity heating system in the mountain while doing trekking or other adventure activities. Unlike that, you can enjoy all kind of electricity heating system in the city tours like Kathmandu City Tour, Pokhara, Chitwan and Lumbini Tour, Nagarkot and Namobouddha Tour.
Drinking water must be pure, safe and contamination free. You can get bottled or purified drinking water during the trip even in the mountain which is very safe for you to drink. Majority of the people who make a trekking or adventure trips in the mountain go with boiled water which is prepared by the local lodges/guesthouses on the trail which is the best way to keep you safe from contaminated water. However, some people carry water purifying ingredients and they apply it to the drinking water and they drink it. But, don’t try to drink the water from Local River, stream and taps. The bottled water costs between Rs.100-300 which is 1 liter in the mountain.
Communication
You can enjoy excellent facility of communication in Kathmandu and in other major cities like Chitwan, Pokhara, Nagarkot and Lumbini. However, in case of trekking trip in mountain, you may not be able to have such kind of facility like in the cities. But, most of the local teahouses/lodges/ guesthouses/ hotels on the trail will offer you the facility of Wi-fi. Sometimes, you get it for free and sometimes, you may have to pay like Rs.100-200 per device for the installation of Wi-fi during the trip in the mountain.
In the remote area trekking like Manaslu Circuit Trek, Annapurna Circuit Trek, Kanchenjungha Circuit Trek and Upper Mustang Trek, they charge certain amount like Rs.200-400 per device for the installation of Wi-fi at the local lodges. Otherwise, in Annapurna Base Camp Trek and Everest Base Camp Trek, they don’t charge you the money for the facility of Wi-fi, they will offer you for free.
The best way to access good communication over your smart phone is getting local Nepali SIM Card like NT and NCELL. You get these local Nepali SIM Cards easily in Kathmandu and even in International Airport, Tribhuvan International Airport. For this, you have to present the copy of your passport and a passport sized- photograph. You can buy datapack via this local SIM Card and you make a very good communication wherever you go, even from the corner of the mountain. You can make a call, you access internet over it and even make a video call instantly from the Everest Base Camp (5364m) and even from Larkya La Pass (5106m) in Manaslu Circuit Trek.
Trek Ends
The trek ends in Pokhara officially with a flight to Kathmandu. Normally, in Pokhara, you can celebrate the last day of the trek with your entire trekking crew like offering them tips and heavy dinner because they have worked hard for you and your safety all round the trip. The last day walk is from ABC to Pokhara and you wait for the next day’s flight to Kathmandu .
Important Note
The Lukla weather keeps changing in 15 minutes so it cannot be 100% that the flight to Ramechhap or Kathmandu from Lukla can take place on given time. It may get delayed or postponed or even cancelled for few days. In this case, don’t panic, don’t get agitated and don’t trouble your trekking leader for the delay, cancellation or postponement of flight. Be calm and talk to your trekking lead to find out the way to escape this situation.
You have got two options for you in this case: the one is helicopter flight to Kathmandu and walk down to Surke and Paiya for 5 hours and get jeep ride to Salleri and then to Kathmandu. You’d better make an approach to helicopter first and then go with walk down to Surke and Paiya. Actually, the walk down to Surke and Paiya is very challenging to follow the trail used by mules; the trail is muddy and slippery. Be careful to follow this trail to Paiya via Surke from Lukla.
If you are doing your Everest Base Camp Trek, you have to have at least one/two spare day. This will help you make your Everest Trek less stressful and less panicked
Feedback
You can give feed back of the trek/trip you have undertaken at the end in Kathmandu. You can visit our office or you can do it in the farewell dinner we organize. Your feedback about the trip will always be taken positively. We really need it to grow up and to sharpen our services and facilities in the days to come.
If you cannot attend the farewell dinner at the end of the trip in Kathmandu or you don’t have time to visit our office, you can write your feed back in trip advisor page that will be more reliable and public.
Trek Extra Personal Expenses
How prodigal you are? Your trek extra personal expenses depend on it. If you love doing extra expenses on the trip, you will go to topics like alcoholic drinks, extra tea or coffee apart from the meal, tipping, some minor donations, and extra snacks on the trail, some urgent personal stuff like clothing or any other equipment you immediately require on the trip in case it gets damaged or stop functioning. And, at the end of the trek, you have to give some tips to your trekking crew, at least some or little. For this, you have to allocate some dollars or Nepali currency.
Typical Day
The typical trip day begins with a good breakfast. You will have breakfast at around 7-8 am and begin the day after it. Then, you will have to work/walk for 3-4 hours after breakfast and you will stop for lunch. The lunchtime will be around an hour. You will order your lunch item and the restaurant/hotel/teahouse will cook for you. Sometimes, you may have to wait for sometime if the restaurant or hotel is crowded. You can find the item you like to have in the menu prepared by the local lodge/restaurant / hotel. If you are vegetarian, no worries, you can still find the ways.
After lunch, you will resume your work/trek/trip again and end it in the after like around 3-4 pm. After that, you will check in hotel/guesthouse/teahouse and get refreshed. Take rest, change clothing and go for dinner at around 6-7 pm. Your leader will help you to order the meals you like. At the dinner, your leader will share the important information for the next day’s trip and you can raise the question regarding it. The leader will orient you what to wear, how to walk, what to carry and where to eat. Follow the instructions from the guide/leader very well.
Why with Haven Holidays?
- Free Booking and Free Cancelation
- Veteran Crew Members
- Enhancing Eco- Tourism
- Prompt response, full safety and comfort guaranteed.
- No hidden cost
- Flexible
- Cost Friendly
- Wider Networks
- Expert in risks management
Booking, Cancellation and Refund
If you want to book the trip featured by us, you require settling the 25 % payment of total trip cost. However, if you are in rush and instantly plan your trip to Nepal, then, you can make the trip payment by visiting our office in Nepal as well but we need a confirmation email prior to it.
In case you cannot do the booked trip in the timeframe you wanted for some reasons, you have the right to postpone it. Even if you cannot do the trip after the postponement, you can transfer the same trip or other in exchange to your family, relatives and friends.
But for Everest Base Camp Trek or other any trip in Everest region, the cancellation must be made 2 months prior as we have already booked the accommodation, transportation and domestic flights in order to make your trip more consistent and convenient.
But, sorry to state that no refund will be made for the exchange of booked trip with us. We are ready to wait for months and years for your right time to do the booked trip in Nepal. Be confident that we won’t spoil your booked trip.
Travel insurance
Travel Insurance is a must thing to fix before the departure for a particular trip. In case you face sudden and unpleasant incident during the trip, you may need recue evacuation and medical expenses. For that, you must have travel insurance. Actually, life is more important than your trip. As long as you have life, you have everything. So that, have a authentic travel insurance that covers all rescue evacuation and medication expenses in case you have got some nasty accidents during the trip.
If you have got some idea about travel insurance and the companies who do travel insurance for you, you can go with them, otherwise, you can search on Google and will easily get the travel insurance companies who will help you doing insurance for your trip.
Hot Shower
Actually, a warm or hot shower makes you refresh and offers you new energy during the trip and it in very necessary. If you are travelling in the city area in Nepal, you will easily get the facility of hot shower. But, if you are making a trip in mountain, it may be difficult to get hot shower during the trip. However, local lodge and guesthouse will offer you bucket shower with warm water or they will provide hot shower with cooking gas. If you want to do enjoy the hotel shower in the mountain, you can ask the local lodge owner to manage it for you and they will charge some money like Rs. 300-500 per individual.
Why Annapurna Base Camp Trek with Haven Holidays?
- Expert and professional local guides
- Flexible trekking crew
- Better understanding of weather condition and local culture
- Immediate Rescue in case of emergency
- Better Accommodation Food
- Eco- Friendly and Sustainability
- Expert in Communication
Departure
After farewell dinner with our team and the important feedback session, we will comfortably drop you to the Tribhuvan International Airport and to any other destination you want for your exit to your homeland or for the commencement of another trip. After we drop you to the destination you prefer, you can catch up your international flight and another trip you want. We wish you a very wonderful time ahead.