Upper Mustang Trek
Dear Balaram
I am writing to express to you and other readers that I had a completely wonderful trekking trip in Nepal in March/April, 2011, organized by your company, Nepal Hiking Team. My friend and I spent 14 days trekking with your company guide Hari and two porters into the Upper Mustang Valley near the border of Tibet.
I have done a considerable amount of mountaineering in Canada and am used to great views, but this trip was truly spectacular for its beauty - views of distant high snow capped mountains and trails that went into deep gorges with high cliffs of orange and red - each trail pass topped with a welcoming cairn and prayer flags. The dry desert area also allowed for wide open vistas and views of interesting rock formations. I have not been anywhere with so many interesting sights - there was a new picture to be taken every 15 minutes of every 7 hours we were walking. The cultural sights were also amazing - including the terraced fields, rock wall enclosures, religious monuments, monasteries, stone and mud houses, hilltop ruins of forts, Buddhist caves, irrigation canals, pack horses, goat herds, little tree plantations, yaks, and cattle, little villages with narrow alleys for people and animals, and children occaisonally to greet us. Some monuments were over 500 years old.
The Nepal Hiking Team were wonderful for organizing a somewhat customized trip for us two clients - they were very flexible as to timing and where we wished to go. Our guide Hari was very well organized, made careful preparations, was very happy, always tried to please and got along very well with our two porters and owners of the guest houses we stayed in. Hari did a lot of the cooking at the guest houses to provide us with some Western style meals - great cooking Hari!
Although not essential, a guide is really valuable for organizing logistics and on treks - finding accommodation and organizing meals, freeing you up for viewing. It was OK to have a porter help carry the gear too.
I would highly recommend the Nepal Hiking Team to anyone wishing to sight-see in Nepal - they did a great job for us.
Rob Adams and Garfield Saunders
Victoria, BC Canada
Upper Mustang Trek
Greetings from Poland!
Finally at home! We would like to thank you very much for the time we've spent together. It was a real pleasure to trek with you to amazing Kingdom of Lo Manthang. We are happy to tell that we've already recommended your team to our friends. All of us are considering coming back to Himalaya Mountain.
We hope that we could meet again in the future it would be a pleasure for us to visit other regions with you, our friends! We don't know particular time of hypothetical visit, but I'm sure we'll keep in touch, so we can inform you about all our plans. 3 days spent in Chitwan National Park was organized perfectly, as well as the trek of course. Thanks for that too.
Urbaniak family, Poland