Jomsom Muktinath Trek – 12 Days

Fantastic experience

Just returned from trekking the Annapurna Circuit. Earthbound Expeditions provided us with full information before we led the UK, replying within hours (and sometimes within minutes!) to our emails and queries.

Earthbound Expeditions took very good care of us while we were in Nepal, including being invited to Rajan’s home to celebrate Divali with his family. Being invited to share in such a occasion was very special.

We can not speak highly enough of our guide Lekh, who was excellent. He was highly knowledgable and did everything possible to ensure our trek was a wonderful experience. His customer service was first class. When problems did occur, such as one of our group experiencing altitude sickness, he found solutions to enable us to continue our trek. Similarly, when we unable to fly out of Jomson due to high winds stopping flights, Lekh arranged a jeep to take us to Pokhara so we could stay on schedule for the trip (I would not recommend the jeep, unless you have to meet an international flight as we did, as the road is so rough it can be hardly called a road and the 139km journey by road took 9 hours). Lekh’s excellent guiding, calm problem solving and quiet reassurance was very much appreciated by all of us.

The food was excellent and the tea houses and hotels were basic and cold at night as you would expect, but very welcoming. As we wanted a walk while we were at Jomson, Lekh even found a ‘side trip’ for us the afternoon, to a neighbouring village.

The porters, Shiva and Balpu, worked equally hard on our behalf going to of their way to help us, and when they reached the hotel before us in the afternoon, came back and offered to help with our small packs. Their attentiveness at all times helped make the trek a memorable experience.

Needless to say the scenery was glorious and our thanks go to Earthbound Expeditions team for a highly enjoyable (and challenging!) trek. i would recommend Earthbound Expeditions to anyone considering trekking in Nepal.

A most wondefultrekking experience with Earthbound Expeditions

My friends and I booked the Jomosom Muktinath trek in December 2015 through Earthbound Expeditions. The trek itself was the most wonderful I have done to date. Walking through mountain scenery and seeing village life in the foothills of the Annapurna region was the highlight of the trek. I recommend it to anyone. The trek was capped at both ends with a stay in Kathmandu, a dynamic city. EE provided a fantastic tour of Kathmandu’s sights and history as well. We also spent two nights in Pokhara and undertook a cooking class on daal bhat. Mr. Rajan and Shreeram and the porter crew ensured that the trek went without problems. But as always approach trekking in Nepal with an open mind and accept the daily adventures that come along as that is where all the memories come from.

I am thoroughly impressed with Earthbound Expeditions and will not hesitate to call upon them for my return trips to Nepal! Earthbound Expeditions is a professional company who adheres to safety and ensures its clients get what they came for! Their services are first class!

Exhilaring view near the Annapurna and excellent service

I did the Jomsom Muktinath Trek in May together with my boyfriend. We changed the offered tour and got our own ‚private‘ tour for 8 days. We went together with our guide Namaraj Sapkota and our porter. Because we spent some more time in Nepal apart from trekking, we started the tour in Pokhara.

On the tour we slept in comfortable Teahouses and also the drinks and food were quite good.

The impressions and views will always be rembered. Our guide, Namaraj Sapkota, told us a lot about the people oft the Anapurna area and Nepal in general.

As well as the rituals of the temple in Muktinath, the whole story about the earthquake and even the traditional way of living in this area. Our guide was always careing about us and our health. All the time were feeling pretty save.

We didn’t see any effets oft he earthquake in the Anapurna region, all the roads and the bridges were in good conditions, so we had no problems. In Kathmandu we only saw a few buildings and temple which were beeing rebuild.

The whole trip was very well organized by Earthbound Expeditions and individual and sponaeous wishes were always possible. We can highly recommed Earthbound Expeditions and our Guide Namaraj Sapkota. The next trip will definitely be with them.

All in all we can say the country and the people are amazing, it has an exhilarating landscape

I ran the Jomsom Muktinath Trek with my girlfriend in May. We changed the pre-planned tour a bit and got our “private” tour over 8 days. That is, we both together with our guide Namaraj Sapkota and a carrier. Since we wanted to spend some time in Nepal besides the trekking, we planned the tour from Pokhara. On the tour we stayed in very comfortable teahouses and the food was also very good. The impressions and the views will always be remembered! Through our guide, Namaraj Sapkota, we learned a lot about the people in the Anapurna region and also from all over Nepal. The rituals in the temple in Muktinath, the whole story about the earthquake and also the traditional way of life of the people in the Annapurna area. He was always mindful of our ability and our health and has taken care of us well. We have always felt safe with him. We did not hear much about the effects of the earthquake in the Annapurna region; all roads and buildings and bridges were in perfect order. We had no restrictions. Only back in Kathmandu have you seen individual buildings and temples that were still under reconstruction. Overall, everything from Earthbound Expeditions was very well organized and individual or spontaneous wishes possible at any time. I can warmly recommend Earthbound Expeditions and in particular our guide Namaraj Sapkota and will do my next tour there again. By and large, one can only say that the country has very nice people and landscape is simply breathtaking