Access Nepal Tour & Trekking

Annapurna Base Camp- Amazing!
Jun 2016 • Solo
Sadhana, Santosh, and Giri were all fantastic and took amazing care of me for the entire trek! Sadhana was amazing at helping me before I even got to Nepal and I felt looked out for the entire time I was in the country. Santosh and Giri were so patient with my slow pace, and seeing the view at Annapurna was absolutely breathtaking. I recommend using Access Nepal completely, I had a superb experience. -Nina

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Amazing trek to Annapurna Base Camp
Nov 2019
We did the ABC Trek in November 2019, and it was an amazing experience! We highly recommend Access Nepal Tour & Trekking.

We wanted to trek with a company based in Nepal, and Access Nepal turned out to be a great choice for us. From the initial planning stages to the final farewell dinner in Kathmandu, Rahul (our primary contact) was a great help. Good service, reliable. Rahul answered all of my questions promptly, and always provided detailed and helpful responses. Rahul met us the morning after our arrival in Kathmandu, and ensured we had personal assistance for anything we needed throughout the trip. We wanted to visit Bhaktapur before the trek to ABC, and he made all the arrangements for us. One day we were taking a Tourist Bus between two of the cities on our itinerary, and Rahul even phoned to make sure all was well. When we had our farewell dinner/feedback session he noticed I had a bad cold and cough (and no meds) so he paid our waiter to go out and buy me cough syrup and decongestant lozenges!

The company provides free duffle bags, so we decided to bring our gear in suitcases and transfer everything to the duffle bags once we arrived in Kathmandu. The bags were good quality, and waterproof, so this worked out very well for the trek and we’re glad to have the duffle bags for future trips. Access Nepal also lets you borrow down jackets and sleeping bags, and we took advantage of this offer; again, we were pleased with the quality of the jackets and bags, and just brought along our own silk liners to use in the bags.

The entire trip, including the welcome dinner and city tour in Kathmandu, was well-organized. The hotels provided by Access Nepal in both Kathmandu (Landmark Kathmandu) and Pokhara (Batika Hotel) were very good. And the trek was the experience of a lifetime. Incredible mountains and waterfalls, forests, suspension bridges, interesting villages and people, hot springs, monkeys and more! Plus we had a wonderful guide, NavaRaj Wagle, and porter, Eklal. They were a great team, and lots of fun.

I would highly recommend NavaRaj – anyone would be extremely fortunate to have him as the guide for a trek. He was an excellent guide, always professional, safety-conscious, knowledgeable, courteous, helpful, kind and caring. NavaRaj always provided us with great advice and information on the trek, whether about avoiding high altitude sickness or whatever. We knew we were in good hands and had complete confidence in him. Access Nepal is lucky to have NavaRaj as an employee, and we were very happy to make this trek with NavaRaj and Eklal.

We wanted to spend a few days in Chitwan National Park after the trek to ABC, so Rahul made all the arrangements for that as well.

We spent about three weeks in Nepal, and the staff from Access Nepal did a great job of looking after us from the moment we arrived at the airport in Kathmandu until we departed.If we ever return to this special part of the world for another trek, we will be booking with Access Nepal. And asking for NavaRaj to be our guide!

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Fantastic trekking in the Nepalese Himalayas: Everest Base Camp + Gokyo
May 2018 • Friends
Where to start….

We were 4 guys of 26-28 y/o from Belgium and we decided to go to Nepal for a trekking in the Himalaya in Nepal. We love nature, we love sports and we loved the idea to be in the fresh air of the mountains (far from house and for from every news/communication channel), which is a perfect spot to relax, to enjoy a natural peace and to unstress from work or other demanding activities you probably experience in your home country.

So, we decided to book the trip with Access Nepal and off we went! From the beginning, communication went very well. We could ask everything and we always had a satisfying and clear answer from Sadhana, the Manager/Tour Operator of Access Nepal. They also provided us with an equipment list, which is very useful to organize your trip as you don’t know what you can expect.

Once arrived in Kathmandu, our guide “Devman” was waiting for us at the airport in a small cosy minivan (which is typically Nepalese) and received us very well with a big smile (always by the way!). By arriving in this busy, vibrating city, we realised the trip finally really started! Gave us a good and exciting feeling. In the evening we had a welcome dinner in a Nepalese restaurant with an explanation on the whole trip and how everything will be organised during the following 2 weeks. After having consumed some beverages and Dhal Bhat (Nepalese dish), we went to bed to be sharp for our first journey of the trek.

From Kathmandu we had to take the plane to Lukla Airport, which is not very easy (depending on the weather). Sometimes, when weather is bad and cloudly, planes are not leaving, which is quite annoying as you have to wait in the departure hall until weather is getting better (can take several hours or even days). Which was really reassuring was that our guide Devman did his entire best to arrange someting as it was also possible to take the heli (extra payment) to Lukla (higher chance of flying). Finally, after hours of waiting, Devman arranged the last heli of the day for us and we took off to Lukla! Part of the experience!

The whole journey in the mountains started from then on. Every day we did 5-6 hours of walking/climbing to the next village where our teahouse was waiting for us. The scenery is in the beginning quite similar to the Alpes or European mountains with needle trees and same mountain sceneries, but after 2-3 days trekking, the tree line dissapeared and the rocky Himalaya came up with its vast and incredible mountains. Every day was a big and amazing journey, with sometimes though hikes and good climbs, but the views and sceneries were priceless. We also had amazing weather (blue sky and sun during 10 days), so all our days were magnificent. Devman also guided us really well by adjusting the pace/speed according to the people and the weather conditions. Our group was quite fit and didn’t experience many problems due to altitude, food or sport intensity. Devman was always very attentive for our mental and physical state and helped us with good advice and tips in the mountains, which is vital if you want to reach the highest peak (Kalla Patthar – 5545 m) without big problems. Each afternoon and evening, you also have the time to relax, to play cards, to read a book and to enjoy your teahouse and its surrounding in the middle of the mountains. The best view is without doubt Kalla Patthar, which is absolutely (and litteraly) breathtaking. When arriving in Everest Base Camp (EBC), several emotions and feelings come up by realizing you made it, you are in the middle of an incredible natural wonder and that you have to chance to admire all of this. We also experienced to proposals, which was great and an additional special touch to our trip. After EBC, we did an additional trip to Gokyo via the Chola Pass. Absolutely recommended by me and my friends! Basically you go several hours down from EBC and take another way through the mountains. People doing only EBC are doing the whole way down as they did to go up, so same sceneries and same teahouses. In my opinion much better to do EBC with another pass like Chola pass (there are 3 in total – for the big fanatics). The trek to the first village just in front of Chola Pass was probably the best trekking day we did. Even better sceneries, much less tourists (almost none!) and an absolutely amazing day. Our plan was to go over the Chola Pass the day after at 4AM, but suddenly a heavy storm started and the whole region was undersnowed. You could think: damn it! But in the contrary. Seing the same scenery under snow was MAGICAL and INCREDIBLE. I have never seen a such stunning and magnificent scenery of my life. One of our last days was in Gokyo after Chola Pass, which is a big Holy lake in the mountains. Very nice to see and as told previously, a very nice trekking via another way when going down to Lukla again.

Despite it can be sometimes intensive and quite hard, we had a lot of fun and joy and we enjoyed every single moment of it. The teahouses were also more than OK with a very big menu card, so not needed to eat every day rice with curry! Our guide Devman was also always smiling and happy and you could tell/ask him every thing you want. Important to also have a good group of whom everybody is at the same physical (and mental) level.

In resume: everybody that can and want to do it, should do it. You will never regret this. It’s too beautiful, too peaceful, too incredible. Being far from house, in the Himalayas, in Nepal, with good friends of yours and a warm and amazing Nepalese guide is magical. Far from all comfort, luxury, connection and negative sensation. Back to basics, pushing your body to new limits while enjoying “Nature Almighty”. Having a good time in family or with friends. 100% recommended. When going back to Kathmandu or home, you will also realise how comfort and luxury has become too ‘normal’ in our lives. Enjoy everything you have and be humble to people with less.

My second recommendation is Access Nepal Tour & Trekking. An excellent company for organizing such trips. From A to Z our trip has been organized perfectly, with Devman and Sadhana as front leaders. They did always their incredible best to make us happy and to make the trip as perfect as possible. By seeing other guides during our trek, we were probably also very lucky with Devman. He was a real example of how guides should be: friendly, helpful, polite, experienced and always happy. He is not probably the best, but THE BEST.

And the real heros are finally our sherpas, our porters: they deserve all credits by going up and down the mountains with our bags in sneakers, jeans and tshirts. They are incredible.

Thank you for everything and hopefully see you in the near future!

Charles

Charles Van Lerberghe Belgium Reviews from

A great trip
Mar 2024 • Friends
It is a very reliable company.
Regarding the guides led by Devman, they are great professionals, I recommend them without hesitation.

Passenger38237504971 USA Reviews from

Royal Trek
Apr 2017 • Couples
My husband and I just completed the Royal Trek, it was the most wonderful and rewarding experience. Our contact Sadhana was exceptionally quick to answer our emails, she was through and informative in her responses. We felt very confident about this company because of her efficiency. Our guide Chhabi and porter Bijay couldn’t have been more wonderful. They always made sure we were alright. They were professional, very knowledgeable about the trails and experts in trekking. I would recommend this company to anyone who is interested in trekking in Nepal.

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Everest base camp
Oct 2019 • Friends
Absolutely life changing experience from the day we arrived untill the day we left our tour manager (sadhana) very helpful sorting out everything and excellent help when dealing with some medical issues and our tour guides subodh and yashawant were great craic and knew the landscape well telling us information from name of all the peaks to the history behind some of the places along the way. If i ever go again i will be travelling with access nepal a company from nepal itself hopefully we meet again. Also cant forget the porters a great bunch of people

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