Tsum Valley Trek

After your arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu. At outside the Airport Terminal, a representative of Sherpa Expedition and Trekking cordially receives you and transfers to a 3-star hotel in Kathmandu at Thamel, backpackers colorful market. In the afternoon, you will be taken to the Sherpa Expedition and Trekking office for a guide introduction and final brief trip information about the trek. In the evening, explore the tourist hub, Thamel.

Today after breakfast, we will start our journey to Soti Khola. We will take a drive from Kathmandu to SotiKhola on a nice, paved road enjoying the views of the hilly areas, terraces, fields, and rivers. Arughat is a little rough one on rocky trails. From Arughat one an half hour drive to reach SotiKhola, we will stay in Soti Khola at tea house.

After having breakfast, we start our day early to reach our destination which will take about 5-6 hours. After we crossing the suspension bridge of SotiKhola, we trek through Sal forests to reach a ridge above the splashing rapids of the Budhi Gandaki River. Afterward, the path becomes rocky, passing through beautiful waterfalls and cliffs. We will have lunch at Lapubesi which is a beautiful Gurung village in this region. Then after we climb behind a rocky cliff where the valley opens up. Trekking through a sandy river bed, climbing over stone ridges, and then again trek down to the river and crossing the old suspension bridges. We arrive at MachchaKhola village and we will stay at teahouse.

After breakfast, we leave Machhakhola, we follow a narrow path that takes us to Tharo Khola, and finally, we reach Khorlabesi. Afterward, a few ascends and descends, we arrive at a popular hot-spring at Tatopani. Then we will spend some time here and can enjoy the natural sauna in the hot -spring and relieve all our tiredness and stress of the trek. After spending a few times at hot spring we climb another ridge and pass the Budhi Gandaki on another side of a suspension bridge. Then after we climb a staircase and then cross a landslide and a ridge to reach Doban village. We will have lunch at Dovan village and again we climb the stone staircase then go down to the river and climb some stairs again to reach Thado Bharyang. Afterward, we cross the west bank of Budhi Gandaki River, climb over a ridge, trek along the river to reach the Jagat village. We will stay in Jagat at the teahouse.

After breakfast, we will follow the path that again climbs over the rocky ridge to Salleri village and then trek down to Sardibas. We will trek to continue ahead of the wide, we will find the valley towards Philim. Phidim we will move towards north passing through Chisapani. Then after we will start walking through the dense forest for a few hours to reach Lokpa. from here we can see a stunning view of Himalchuli and Buddha Himal. We stay overnight at Lokpa.

From Lokpa, after breakfast, we will trek along the trail that descends pass towards Lungwa Khola. From here we will trek down through the dense forest of Rhododendron, pine, and Brich towards Gumling. We will continue the trek through Shiar River until we reach Chumling. The old Chumling Gompa and age-old stone-paved streets of the village will remain in our hearts. We stay overnight at Chumling.

Leaving Chumling, we will trek a bit longer. we will trek towards Gho village. We trek along with the path that smoothly climbing towards the village. Then we will trek continue our uphill climbing as long as we reach Chhokangparo. This is a truly typical Tibetan Buddhist village. There are mainly two settlements: Chhokang and Paro. We will stay overnight Chhokangparo. On this day we will be able to see the view of Mt. Himalchuli and Mt. Ganesh Himal.

Leaving Chhokangparo, We will follow the path that climbing up to the Rachen Gompa. After exploring the gompa, we will trek towards the Nile. We will pass through a suspension bridge over Shair River and continue trekking through several villages. We will walk through the villages of Ngakyu, Leru, Lama Gaun, Burji, Phurbe, Pangdun and Finally we will reach the Nile for a night stay. Milarepa Cave on the trail is fascinating and must do a trek. Milarepa cave is also known as Pigeon Cave. It is believed that St. Milarepa, a famous Tibetan Saint, had meditated in this cave. We stay overnight at Nile.

After breakfast, we will trek along the west bank of the valley close to the Tibetan border. We climb up to Mu Gompa and also explore Dhephu Doma Gompa. Mu Gompa is the largest Gompa in this region that lies at the highest and remote part of Tsum Valley trek. We stay overnight at Mu Gompa.

After breakfast, we will trek down the valley through Chhule. We will continue to walk on the east bank of Shiar River and then cross flat boulder covered plains that lead us to Rachen Gompa. Along the trail, we will find ruins of several ancient gompas. We stay overnight at Rachen Gompa.

Leaving Rachen Gompa, We will continue to head south and then cross a suspension bridge to the west bank towards Chhokang Paro. From here we will trek down on a narrow trail and drop to a wooden bridge over Siyar Khola to finally reach In this village has a Tibetan herbal medicine clinic and school as well. We stay overnight at Dumje.

Leaving Dumje, we will follow the path that steep climb up through dense forest filled with pines and beautiful rhododendron forest before traversing at a mani wall with prayer flags. From here we will continue trek the uphill zigzag trail to finally reach Gumba Lungdang. From here we can enjoy the panoramic view of the world’s towering Himalayas.

Leaving Gumba Lungden, we will trek back to Dumje and follow the path that goes along the banks of Shiar river over the wooden bridge, we will cross the deep side canyons to arrive at the village of Ripchet. The Ripchet village is located on the ridge top with good farming lands. We stay overnight at Ripchet.

After breakfast, From Ripchet, we will continue to trek over the path that passes through several beautiful villages with good views of amazing landscapes and surrounding high Himalayas. We will trek until we reach Dobhan. This village is located at the confluence of Shair river that flows from the east and Sarpu river flowing from the west. We stay overnight at Dovan.

From Doban, The trail to Soti Khola consists of several ups and downs. We will descend over the stoned staircase that passes through Machha Khola. From Machhakhola we will gently descend all the way to reach Soti Khola. We will cross through beautiful terraced farmlands and tropical waterfalls during our today trek. We will stay overnight at Soti Khola.

Our final day of the trek descends past another stunning waterfall and on to Arkhet Khola which is the end of the Budhi Gandaki Valley. We pass through the villages of Sante Bazaar and Malta. The last leg of our trek takes us past the hydroelectric power plant and then we reach Arughat where we will rest for a while before taking the bus back to Kathmandu – a 3-hour road trip. Tonight we stay in a 3-star hotel in Kathmandu.

Today is your last day of the trip, Sherpa Expedition and Trekking reprenstative will drop you at Tribhuvan International Airport. We would like to welcome you again to explore our Himalayan kingdom to visit more of the hidden treasures of our nation. Namaste!