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Hi guys

My girlfriend and I - both fit and around 30 years old - are going to Nepal for 14 days in March. We want to do a trek which offers the best mountain views and cultural experiences you can get on a 5-7 day trek.

Which trek do you recommend?

I have been doing some research and is attracted to a half way Everest Base Camp trek or Langtang Valley trek (is it possible within our time frame?), but I have also read that at trek at Annapurna should be amazing. Don't take this into account though - I would very much like to hear your immediate thoughts and experiences.

Thanks a lot!

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Langtang is a great 7 day trek, Kathmandu to Kathmandu. It's a long bus ride though, each way (10 to 14 hours). However, you get to experience the culture on a bus and you get to see lots of scenery. You get to see some decent size mountains (7000 m) on the trek, but not quite as high as the 8000 m ones in the Everest or Annapurna regions. You trek through several villages where you can get a great cultural experience.

You could also do a part Everest Base Camp trek. In 7 days, you could get up to Tengboche or Pheriche and back, depending on how long of trekking days you want on the return. However, remember that you could be delayed flying into or out of Lukla. Flights operate on visual flight rules so if the weather is poor, the planes don't fly. People have been stranded in Lukla for up to 7 days. However, this is on the long side. So, if you are going to do this trek, do it at the beginning of your trip so you have extra days in case you become stranded. You don't want to miss your international connection. If you don't have any delay, then you have lots of time to see the sites (including the world heritage sights) in and around Kathmandu and the valley.

You could also take a bus or fly to Pokhara and do a variation of the Poon Hill trek over 5 days. Poon Hill, if its clear, will give you a wonderful panorama of mountains in the Annapurna region. It will give you a good cultural experience too because you'll be trekking through numerous small villages. However, this trek will be crowded with western trekkers trekking down off the Annapurna Circuit. If you go to Pokhara, spend a morning going up to the lookout at Sarangkot if its clear. Your hotel can arrange for a micro-bus or taxi to take you there for a sunrise visit. It gives you a wonderful view of the entire Annapurna range and you can even see Dhaulagiri (another 8000 m peak). This lookout area will be very crowded if its clear, but its worth it.

I've done all these treks. I would recommend the Langtang trek for your time frame unless you just have to see Everest. On the partial Everest Base Camp trek, you'll get a distant view of Everest, but not real close. However, there are other in-your-face mountains like Ama Dablam. The Langtang trek won't be as crowded with trekkers as Everest.

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Hi there, you can do Everest Panorama trek, you can go up to Tengboche Buddhist monestary. or Gosaikund lake and down to Shivapur to Kathmnadu. In Annpurna region you can go to Ghorepani poon hill trek and go to Natural hot spring to Jhinu Danda village and trek back to Pokhara. onother one is Lower mustand area call Jomsom Muktinath trek, fly from Pokhara to Jomsom and trek up to Muktainath and trek down to Beni and drive to Pokhara. for mor info PM me. Thank you. Good day!

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GMG12 - why PM for more information? Posting the information here means we can all benefit from it (and this is how the forum works).

I would be interested your itinerary for Gosainkund - Shivapuri - KTM...

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