New Trekking Routes

Holiday Mountain Treks also organizes adventure trekking in new trekking routes such as Rashuwa trail, Machhapuchhre, Panch Pokhari, Nar Phu Valley etc. Recently open up to tourists has evoked little enthusiasm among the villagers whose postural lifestyle continues. Nar Phu just above the tree line on the upper limits of cultivating, in the very north of Manang district. The valley is hidden by swirls of mountain mist behind kangla pass 5200m. Few foreigners have visited the area and tourism infrastructure is almost non-existent. However, the Annapurna Conservation Area project recently extended its network to include Nar Phu valley and it is preparing a suitable tourism development plan. The magnificent panoramic view of Annapurna massif looks remote and forbidding. The angle pass links Nar with Manang and other three Bhotia villages in the Nershang valley. It has about 300 inhabitants who depend on livestock, unlike most Bhotia whose trading patterns changed drastically after the Nepal Government closed borders with Tibet, the people of Nar-Phu valley were least affected by this change. They do have trading especially on the salt trade but never was dependent on and yak herding is the basis of their lifehold.