Michel van Vliet
3rd February 2003, 06:19 PM
On Feb. 20 till March 11 together with a friend I will be visiting Nepal for the first time. Naturally this event goes together with a lot question, of which we already had a lot of answers from this excellent site and from the Rough Guide. Nevertheless a few questions still remain.
Our aim is to experience as much of Nepal as we can in the short three weeks we only have. We have both some experience in trekking through Central America and Australie and our condition is fairly good and are confident we can walk up 5-6 ours a day(not really sure though how the altitude differences will affect us). Any trekking-route(we are thinking of the Annapurna Sanctuary ourselves) you can advise would be more than welcome. Our preferation goes to do the trek by ourselves, though I think hiring a porter/guide is unavoidable. Any recommendation on the best way to get this arranged would also be welcome. We prefer to arrange as much as we can by ourselves and avoid agencies, big crowds, etc.
Below a few more practical questions:
*Do we need winterclothes/sleepingbag for temp. below 0 Celcius?
*Is it advisabe to trek with tent?
*Do we need to arrange accomodation for the porter/guide during our trek?
*Any other topics we might have to think off!
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Michel van Vliet
Our aim is to experience as much of Nepal as we can in the short three weeks we only have. We have both some experience in trekking through Central America and Australie and our condition is fairly good and are confident we can walk up 5-6 ours a day(not really sure though how the altitude differences will affect us). Any trekking-route(we are thinking of the Annapurna Sanctuary ourselves) you can advise would be more than welcome. Our preferation goes to do the trek by ourselves, though I think hiring a porter/guide is unavoidable. Any recommendation on the best way to get this arranged would also be welcome. We prefer to arrange as much as we can by ourselves and avoid agencies, big crowds, etc.
Below a few more practical questions:
*Do we need winterclothes/sleepingbag for temp. below 0 Celcius?
*Is it advisabe to trek with tent?
*Do we need to arrange accomodation for the porter/guide during our trek?
*Any other topics we might have to think off!
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Michel van Vliet