Nepal & Bhutan Explorer

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$365000

Kathmandu, Chitwan, Pokhara, Paro, Thimphu

Climb the Annapurna district of the Himalayas with a private guide.

Visit the cliffside Taktsang Monastery dating to 1692.

Fly over Mount Everest and the Himalayan reach.

Spot rhinos and other natural life in Chitwan National Park.

Premium short-term facilities all through.

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  • Activity Level Moderate
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  • Group Size Medium Group
    10
All about the Nepal & Bhutan Explorer.

A travel experience like no other

This example schedule was made by specialists and is intended to move your next trip. It is fit to be modified to suit your inclinations, tastes, and spending plan so you can associate with nearby societies and experience credible travel on your own terms, and leaving at whatever point you pick.

 

  • DAY 1

KATHMANDU Here we Go!

  • Airport Meet & Greet
  • Airport – SUV/Driver/Assistant
  • 1/2 Day Kathmandu City and Swayambhunath Stupa.

 

  • DAY 2

KATHMANDU Cross an Item off the Bucket List

  • Mount Everest Flight (1 hr) – SUV/Driver/Flight/Assistance
  • Half-Day Bhaktapur, Pashupatinath, and Boudhanath – Private Tour.

 

  • DAY 3

KATHMANDU TO CHITWAN Starry Night

  • Airport – SUV/Driver/Assistant
  • Air – Kathmandu – Chitwan [Direct, 1hr ] – Economy
  • Airport – Compact SUV/Driver
  • Meghauli Serai Stargazing.

 

  • DAY 4

CHITWAN Lose Yourself in Nature

  • Meghauli Serai Safari Game Drive
  • Meghauli Serai Canoe Safari (2 hrs).

 

  • DAY 5

CHITWAN TO POKHARA The Journey Continues…

  • Meghauli Serai Walking Safari (2 hrs)
  • Transfer – Private – Chitwan – Pokhara [5 hrs] – SUV/Driver
  • Boat Trip in Phewa Tal Lake – Private Tour.

 

  • DAY 6

POKHARA Lace Up for Some Fresh Air

  • Pokhara/Annapurna Day 1 Trek – Vehicle/Driver/Guide
  • Lunch (included)
  • Dinner (included).

 

  • DAY 7

POKHARA The Trek Continues

  • Pokhara/Annapurna Day 2 Trek – Vehicle/Driver/Guide
  • Lunch (included)
  • Dinner (included).

 

  • DAY 8

POKHARA TO KATHMANDU Onward and Upward

  • Airport – SUV/Driver
  • Air – Pokhara – Kathmandu [Direct, 1 hr] – Economy
  • Airport – SUV/Driver/Assistant
  • Nepalese Dinner Show – Dinner.

 

  • DAY 9

KATHMANDU TO PARO TO THIMPHU On the Road Again

  • Airport – SUV/Driver/Assistant
  • Air – Kathmandu – Paro [Direct, 2hrs] – Economy
  • Visa Fee – Visa Fee Included
  • Airport Meet & Greet
  • Supplement – Guide/Vehicle
  • Transfer – Paro – Thimphu – Vehicle/Guide
  • Explore Thimphu – Private.

 

  • DAY 10

THIMPHU Sights and Insights

  • Supplement – Guide/Vehicle
  • Cheri Monastery, Thimphu Valley & Weekend Market – Private
  • Lunch (included)
  • Dinner (included).

 

  • DAY 11

THIMPHU TO PARO A Change of Scenery

  • Supplement – Guide/Vehicle
  • Transfer – Private – Thimphu – Paro [via Semtokha Dzong]
  • Lunch (included)
  • Explore Paro with your Private Driver Guide
  • Dinner (included).

 

  • DAY 12

PARO Breathe the Mountain Air

  • Supplement – Guide/Vehicle
  • Taktsang Monastery & Dumtseg Lhakhang – Private Tour
  • Lunch (included)
  • Dinner (included).

 

  • DAY 13

PARO Bon Voyage

  • Supplement – Guide/Vehicle
  • Depart Airport – Vehicle/Guide.

 

The tour package inclusions and exclusions at a glance
What is included in this tour?Items that are included in the cost of tour price.
  • A completely modified agenda dependent on your inclinations and timetable
  • All day, every day in-objective help from our nearby office
  • All convenience stays, visits, and moves for planned exercises are shrouded except if in any case recorded in the schedule
  • A private driver for visits and moves (in certain nations our neighborhood private aides additionally go about as your driver – your Destination Expert will examine with you if pertinent)
  • Nearby private aides or shared visits that take you through your schedule features and encounters, your last agenda will affirm the kind of visit
  • Hello at the air terminal or at your convenience from one of our agents – your master will affirm your meet and welcome area with you
  • Breakfast every morning at your inn, in addition to any suppers showed in the schedule
  • One bag and one carry-on per individual for trip moves.
What is not included in this tour?Items that are not included in the cost of tour price.
  • Your global airfare – kindly can let your master say whether you’d prefer to get valuing from our Air Team
  • Travel protection, which we offer and can be bought after you’ve booked your visit
  • Visas (except if noted)
  • Tips for administrations and encounters
  • Snacks, suppers, and beverages (drunkard and non-heavy drinker), except if indicated in the schedule
  • Overabundance things charges, and where material, stuff excluded from your toll
  • Individual charges like clothing, calls, SIM cards, or room administration
  • Early registration or late registration from inns (except if in any case determined)
  • Extra touring, exercises, and encounters outside of your schedule
  • Discretionary improvements like room or flight overhauls, or neighborhood camera or video charges
  • Identification expenses, inoculation expenses, and nearby takeoff charges (when relevant).
  1. Day 1 KATHMANDU

    Here We Go!

    For your additional solace, your English Speaking Assistant will be hanging tight for you outside the traditions region with a sign with your name on it. Your assistant will help you to coordinate getting together with your private driver and go with you to your convenience.

    Meet your English Speaking Assistant for an exchange between the downtown area and the airport with a private driver and vehicle.

    Kathmandu is the capital of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. The city remains at a rise of roughly 1,350 meters in the bowl-molded valley in focal Nepal encompassed by four significant mountains, to be specific: Shivapuri, Phulchowki, Nagarjun, and Chandragiri. The city’s rich history is almost 2000 years of age, as deduced from an engraving in the valley its strict affiliations are predominantly Hindu followed by Buddhism. Individuals of other strict convictions additionally live in Kathmandu giving it a cosmopolitan culture. Nepali is the regular language of the city.  Kathmandu Durbar Square is home to royal residences, sanctuaries, and patios. ”Durbar” signifies ”castle” and Nepal’s rulers used to live here and lead from the Hanuman Dhoka Palace until the development of the Nararayanhiti Royal Palace.  Kathmandu Durbar Square is as of now known as Hanuman Dhoka, a name got from the sculpture of Hanuman, the monkey lover of Lord Ram, close to the passage of the royal residence. Large numbers of the castles and sanctuaries in Durbar Square were worked during the rule of the Malla Kings (1200 to 1768) and are lovely instances of Newari Architecture, Nepal’s most particular engineering style. Guests to the Durbar Square of Kathmandu will be flabbergasted by the building ponders crossing a few centuries. This significant authentic fascination has been pronounced a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There are in excess of twelve structures and sculptures of note in this little territory. They incorporate Kasthamandap – the wooden structure that is said to have given the city of Kathmandu its name, Taleju Temple – perhaps the most established sanctuary in the square, this three-roofed sanctuary with its pyramid-molded bases, is an illustration of the normal Newari building style. Kumari Ghar-home of ”the Kumari”, or living goddess, Shiva-Parvati Temple, Kal Bhairab, etc.  Swoyambhunath: Swayam in Sanskrit implies self, subsequently, Swoyambhunath signifies ”Self-Created One”. The Tibetan name for Swoyambhunath signifies ’Heavenly Trees’. It was worked more than 2,500 years prior. It is otherwise called the monkey sanctuary as there are blessed monkeys living in a piece of the sanctuary. The site is around 70 meters above on the west side slope of Kathmandu and 3 kilometers from the City place. An astounding perspective on Kathmandu valley can be seen from this UNESCO World Heritage social site. This Buddhist Stupa stands firm on an extraordinary footing both among the Buddhists and Hindus.

  2. Day 2 KATHMANDU

    Cross a thing off the Bucket List

    Experience the most practical and famous trip for encountering the Himalayan reach to Mount Everest from Kathmandu. This is an hour trip of amazing perspectives on the picturesque magnificence of the powerful mountains. The Everest flight is a shimmering clear excursion across the world’s most noteworthy pinnacles including Mount Everest, the world’s most noteworthy pinnacle (8848 meters), and different scopes of Himalayas – Gauri Shankar (7134 meters) Nuptse (7855 meters), Lhotse (8516 meters), Amadablam (6812 meters), Chamlang (7319 meters), Makalu (8463 meters) and Cho Oyu (8201 meters) to give some examples including the Roof of the World the Tibetan Plateau.

    Significant: For security, the flight doesn’t fly at a nearby distance to Mount Everest. The flight takes off from 5 nautical miles. This is done for any remaining working carriers and helicopters. The lucidity of Mount Everest relies upon the permeability of the flying second.

    Bhaktapur is widely acclaimed for its rich craftsmanship, astounding society, and native way of life. The old city is 14 km from Kathmandu and is likewise differently known as the ”City of Culture”, the ”Living Heritage” and ”Nepal’s Cultural Gem”. Bhaktapur’s Durbar Square is the diamond of Bhaktapur as well as of the whole country. The most intriguing design here is the incredibly famous 55 Window Palace, Golden Gate, Big Bell, Siddhi Laxmi Temple, Shiva Temple. Pashupatinath is a real sense signifies ’the divine force of all creature’s and is one of the Avatars of Lord Shiva. Pashupatinath isn’t just the holiest Hindu journey in Nepal yet in addition probably the holiest objective in the whole world. Arranged 5 km east of Kathmandu on the banks of the holy Bagmati River, lies the sanctuary of Lord Shiva Pashupati Nath, with its two-layered brilliant rooftop and silver entryways. The stupa of Boudhanath lies 8 KM east of Kathmandu. On this gigantic and antiquated stupa, one of the greatest on the planet is according to Lord Buddha. It is based on an octagonal base inset with supplication wheels.

  3. Day 3 KATHMANDU TO CHITWAN

    Brilliant Night

    Meet your English Speaking Assistant for an exchange between the downtown area and the airport with a private driver and vehicle.

    Enjoy your flight from Kathmandu to Chitwan today. The flight span is roughly 60 minutes.

    Meet your driver for a private air terminal exchange.

    The Taj Safari Lodge in Meghauli Serai is situated in unblemished wilderness conditions, where visitors have the advantage of review a huge region of exceptionally brilliant skies. Following a day of experience and energy in the wilderness, watching the splendid stars sparkle in an indigo sky, is a most loosening up movement. Tune in to intriguing random data and stories as your naturalist familiarizes you to the existence of the night sky.

  4. Day 4 CHITWAN

    Lose Yourself in Nature

    Visitors of the Taj Meghauli Serai property are welcome to go along with one safari game drive for each visitor during their visit. Safari drives leave twice every day and are directed by master naturalists in extraordinarily planned 4×4 vehicles with theater-style seating.

    Morning safaris at Chitwan leave not long after dawn, as the wilderness blends to life. Alongside the adventure of the tiger following, visitors will stop for a paramount outing breakfast. Evening safaris several hours and end at nightfall.

    The thick wildernesses of Chitwan have enormous stretches of Sal with a shut covering. A safari passes through these patches, with trees overshadowing and reams of daylight getting through the thick covering is a charming encounter. Situated in a uniquely planned safari vehicle, visitors cruise all over the wilderness, joined by a prepared naturalist and an accomplished tracker from the neighborhood local area. The one-horned Rhinoceros is the star of Chitwan and is normally seen in open woods and meadows. Alongside vertebrates, the woodland has 56 types of reptiles and creatures of land and water, the most usually spotted ones being the screen reptiles and pythons. The Gharial crocodiles are exceptionally jeopardized and the recreation center specialists run a reproducing place for these bizarre-looking animals that can be visited while out on a safari drive.

    Driving safaris are imparted to different visitors of the Meghauli Serai stop.

    While safari drives and strolling safaris let visitors see the bigger and more modest creatures separately, a kayak ride is a great method to appreciate the special biological system around the waterways and floodplains. Mugger crocodiles and Gharials luxuriating on banks, storks, ducks, kingfishers along with otters, turtles, and if fortunate, even a fishing feline, are a portion of the animals to keep an eye out for. The agreeable wooden paddle boats float silently, moved by master rowers while naturalists clarify the world around the water. The boats are outfitted with life coats and the boatmen are master swimmers who likewise go about as lifeguards.

    Because of the accessibility of naturalists and boats, different visitors from Meghauli Serai may go with you on the kayak safari.

  5. Day 5 CHITWAN TO POKHARA

    The Journey Continues…

    A mobile safari is ideal for travelers searching for nearer fellowship with nature and is incorporated for visitors of the Taj Meghauli Serai property. Be it the nature trails offered in the cushion zone of the recreation center or a comfortable nature walk, it is a chance to get to know the more modest animals. Butterflies, compost scarabs hurrying about, and huge numbers of wildflowers are a couple of the numerous joys best found by walking. Perhaps the most energizing exercise on the proposal in Chitwan is the opportunity to go on a mobile safari in practically all territories open for the travel industry. The strolling safari is directed by the most experienced naturalists and master trackers. It is an experience that requires normal degrees of wellness and relying upon the members a regular walk may cover a distance of three to six miles. Nonetheless, visitors can demand a delicate stroll for a more limited distance as well. A normal strolling safari will be a cross-part of thick wilderness, prairie, and a waterbody. This permits visitors a chance to see creatures and birds from different territories.

    Different visitors of Taj Meghauli Serai may join the strolling safari, contingent upon the accessibility of naturalists.

    Meet your driver for a private exchange from Chitwan to Pokhara. The rough exchange span is five hours.

    Phewa Tal is the voyagers’ point of convergence in Pokhara and is the second-biggest lake in Nepal. Rather than the pretentious traveler improvement of Lakeside, the lofty southwestern shore is thickly forested and buzzing with birdlife. The rich Rani Ban, or Queen’s Forest, presents an emerald tint to the lake, and on a sunny morning, the Annapurna mountains are totally considered its mirror surface. You can take to the lake in one of the brilliantly painted dongas (boats) accessible for lease at Lakeside. Dawn and dusk offer phenomenal perspectives on Fishtail Mountain.

  6. Day 6 POKHARA

    Ribbon Up for Some Fresh Air

    The gathering will be met by your trip guide and moved to your walk start point. This drive will require around 60 minutes. You will stop en route to photo the stunning scenes of the Annapurnas. Upon landing in the town of Lumle arranged at a height of 1610 meters, you will start your 1.5-hour stroll to the Gurung town Majgaun. After around 45 minutes, show up at the town of Chandrakot arranged at a height of 1580 meters. From this town, there are terrific perspectives on Annapurna South, the holy and unclimbed Fishtail Mountain or Machhapuchhare, and the encompassing Modi valley. From Chandrakot, the walk takes you through a forested territory along an all-around worn path for a further 45 minutes to the Gurung hold up which is arranged at a height of 1450 meters. After lunch, you will be accompanied to the nearby town of Majhgaun. There will be a data meeting at a nearby house which is claimed and lived in by one of the hotel staff. The substance of the house will likewise represent how the neighborhood individuals live, along with the devices and carries out of everyday conventional town life. While in transit to the town which is just 15 minutes stroll from the hotel, you will visit the neighborhood school.

  7. Day 7 POKHARA

    The Trek Continues

    After early morning tea and espresso in your room, you will have the chance to photo the shocking landscape from a few distinct areas around the hotel. After breakfast, start a 1 ½ hour journey by getting back to the town of Lumle. En route, you will have plentiful freedom to appreciate and photo the tranquil all-encompassing perspectives on the encompassing valley and mountains. On course back to Pokhara, the vehicle will stop at a Tibetan Refugee Camp where you will have the opportunity to investigate the sanctuary complex.

  8. Day 8 POKHARA TO KATHMANDU

    On the up and up

    Meet your driver for a private air terminal exchange.

    Make the most of your departure from Pokhara to Kathmandu today. The flight length is roughly 60 minutes.

    Meet your English Speaking Assistant for an exchange between the downtown area and the airport with a private driver and vehicle.

    Appreciate a social Nepalese show with a choice supper.

  9. Day 9 KATHMANDU TO PARO TO THIMPHU

    On the Road Again

    Meet your English Speaking Assistant for an exchange between the downtown area and the airport with a private driver and vehicle.

    Enjoy your departure from Kathmandu to Paro today. The flight length is approximately two hours.

    Upon appearance in Paro, you will be needed to introduce two identification photographs to the migration office for your Bhutan visa (included), which will be stepped into your identification. When you go through traditions your guide and driver will be sitting tight for you.

    For your additional solace, your guide will be hanging tight for you outside the traditions territory with a sign with your name on it. Your guide will help you to coordinate getting together with your private driver and go with you to your convenience.

    You will be met on landing in Paro air terminal by our neighborhood direct. Whenever you have finished all air terminal conventions, you will start your drive toward Thimphu. This is a picturesque excursion and requires generally 1.5 hours. On appearance in Bhutan’s advanced capital, you will registration at your inn.

    Visit the Changangkha Lhakhang, which worked in the twelfth century, this is the most seasoned sanctuary in Thimphu. It is drifting over an edge above Thimphu, close to Motithang. Lama Phajo Drukgom Zhigpo who hailed from Tibet picked this site to fabricate this Lhakhang. The Lhakhang houses Chenrezig, an 11-headed, thousand-outfitted sign of Avolokitesawara. The supplication books in this Lhakhang are bigger than the standard Buddhist writings. You can buy a portion of the world’s most wonderful postage stamps, gatherer’s things, and postcards at face esteem from the overall mail center, and you will likewise see the Bhutan National Bank. Next head to neighborhood expressions and specialties school, to visit for certain nearby youngsters and afterward carry on to the Traditional Medicine Institute where antiquated recuperating expressions are as yet polished. At last, visit the Motithang Takin Preserve, which is a neighborhood untamed life save. Afterward, if time licenses, go for a walk through the central avenues to see the fascinating Himalayan ancient rarities and materials that put Bhutan on the map.

  10. Day 10 THIMPHU

    Sights and Insights

    After breakfast starts your day of touring with a visit to the end of the week market to see neighborhood individuals selling and buying their staples. The market additionally has a couple of keepsakes looks for guests. At that point set out on a drive 12 km north of Thimphu where you will take an interest in 60 minutes length climb to Cheri Monastery. There will be sufficient time for singular examination, journaling, contemplating, and so on while visiting the cloister. Afterward, drive back to the inn or to a nearby eatery for lunch. In the early evening notice customary paper making from Daphnia and Edgeworthia bush, and get an opportunity to buy some delightful composing sets from the production line. Then, visit the Handicraft Bazaar, another undertaking started by the Government that advances privately created handiworks. Purchase shocking kiras which can be utilized as bed blankets or divider enhancement, gems, and considerably more. At last, visit Memorial Chorten worked in 1974 to respect the memory of Late King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, prominently known as the Father of Modern Bhutan. A multi-celebrated Stupa will acquaint you with the essentialness of Tantric Buddhism. Wrap up back at your lodging.

  11. Day 11 THIMPHU TO PARO

    A Change of Scenery

    Earlier today, set off for Paro after an early breakfast and on the way visit Semtokha Dzong, ”the spot of significant tantric educating”, which remains on a slope a couple of kilometers away. On appearance in Paro, registration at your inn.

    After lunch today, you will visit Ta Dzong, which initially worked as a lookout, which presently houses Bhutan’s National Museum. The broad assortment incorporates antique thangka compositions, materials, weapons, and defensive layers, family protests, and a rich variety of common and notable relics. Stroll down the path to visit Rinpung Dzong, which has a long and captivating history. Along the wooden displays covering the inward patio are fine divider canvases showing Buddhist legend, like the legend of the four companions, the elderly person of long life, the wheel of life, scenes from the existence of Milarepa, Mount Sumeru, and other vast mandalas. En route, you will likewise see the seventh-century Kyichu Lhakhang, one of 108 sanctuaries worked in the Himalayas by the Tibetan lord, Songtsen Gampo. The structure of this sanctuary denotes the presentation of Buddhism in Bhutan. In the evening visit a conventional farmhouse for a chance to associate with a nearby family and gain an understanding of the neighborhood way of life and societies.

  12. Day 12 PARO

    Inhale the Mountain Air

    Today you will leave on a journey to see the tremendous and renowned Taktsang cloister. The path to the religious community moves through wonderful pine woods with numerous trees decorated with Spanish greenery and a periodic forest of shuddering petition banners. The climb will take you past a little cafeteria if a break is required. Implicit 1600’s, this amazing religious community sticks to the edge of a sheer stone precipice that dives 900 meters into the valley underneath. It is accepted that in the eighth century Guru Rimpoche, the tantric spiritualist who carried Buddhism to Bhutan, arrived here on the rear of a flying tigress to repress an evil presence. Master Rimpoche is accepted to have ruminated here for a quarter of a year and this spot is considered as a ’World-renowned hub’ for Buddhists. Lunch will be served at the cafeteria. After the climb, you will visit Dungtse Lhakhang. The uniqueness of this sanctuary lies in the way that it is as a chorten, one of the not very many that exists in Bhutan. The Lhakhang was underlying 1421 by the popular Tibetan lama, Thongten Gyelpo (1385-1465) who was otherwise called Changzampa or the developer of iron extensions. It is accepted that a demoness was threatening the Paro valley and the very slope that the sanctuary is based on ended up being the demoness’s head. So he assembled a chorten formed sanctuary over the demoness’ head or the slopes to overwhelm her, as chortens more often than not fill the role of a nail that immobilizes an evil presence. This evening, once back to your lodging, you can go for a comfortable guided stroll of the town of Paro.

  13. Day 13 PARO

    Bon Voyage

    Your guide will accompany you to the air terminal for takeoff from Paro.