ON FOOT · PRIVATE HIKING TOURS IN KATHMANDU
The good private hiking tours in Kathmandu cap their group sizes and fill up weeks ahead. Below: the 4 to book early, what each includes and where they differ.
Trek from Kathmandu through Pokhara, Ghorepani, Poon Hill, and Chhomrong to Annapurna Base Camp at 4,230 meters. Your private group has an experienced guide, porters, permits, meals, teahouse lodging, airport transfers, and trekking gear. The route ends with a soak at Jhinu Danda Hot Spring.
Leave Kathmandu before dawn for Nagarkot’s Himalayan sunrise viewpoint, then choose a guided downhill hike through farms, forests, villages, and suspension bridges to Changu Narayan Temple. Guides such as Anon, Nissan, Pradip, and Suresh are praised for their patience and local insight. Private and group options are available.
“Despite the clouds and not being able to fully enjoy the sunrise, the morning was an absolute success. Suresh was incredibly friendly and accommodating, thoughtfully re-arranging the morning hike to show me as much as possible — and even taking it further. A truly special morning. Thank you, Suresh!”
This private 14-day Everest Base Camp trek links Kathmandu, Lukla, Namche Bazaar, Tengboche, Dingboche, Lobuche, Gorakshep, and Kala Patthar. You fly between Kathmandu and Lukla, walk with a licensed guide and porter support, sleep in teahouses, and reach Everest Base Camp before returning by the same high-altitude route.
Leave Kathmandu before dawn for Nagarkot’s View Tower, then walk downhill for about three hours through forests, fields, and villages to Changu Narayan Temple. A guide may explain local culture and nature, while transport, hotel transfers, and a simple lunch box are included. Breakfast at Club Himalaya costs extra.
“We had Nissan as our guide. He took us last minute He told us everything we wanted yo know about Nepal cusoms etc as we were hiking”
Other ways to spend the day on foot
Rock, ice, forest or crater rim.
