Nepal: Portrait of a Country
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Highlights
- Explore Kathmandu
- Visit Swayambunath and Pashupatinath temple
- Visit Patan and Bhaktapur
- Explore Pokhara
- Visit Lumbini temple
- Visit Royal Chitwan National Park
- Explore Janakpur
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- Complete guide service
- All meals and hotels as listed in the itinerary
- Internal Airfare in Nepal
- Elephant Rides, Canoe Rides, boat rides and other activities as listed in the program
- All transportation within Nepal
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Itinerary
Meals: Dinner
Accommodation: Inn at Patan, Hotel Yak and Yeti or Dwarika’s Hotel
Arriving in Kathmandu, you will transfer to your hotel. The rest of the day is free to recuperate from your trip.
Welcome dinner and cultural entertainment at a Newari Restaurant.
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Inn At Patan, Hotel Yak and Yeti or Dwarika’s Hotel
You will rise early and be picked up by your guide to visit Swayambunath, the lotus temple, at sunrise. At this hour of the morning, the temple belongs to the local peopl...
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Inn at Patan, Hotel Yak and Yeti or Dwarika’s Hotel
You rise early to spend the morning in Patan, one of the three cities of the Kathmandu Valley. Also called Lalitpur, the “Beautiful city”, Patan is the most Buddhist of t...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Old House
This morning, you drive out of Kathmandu for about a 4-hour ride to the charming hill town of Bandipur. Originally a sleepy Magar hill village, Bandipur became a key stop on the India-Tibet trad...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Fish Tail Lodge
You have about a 2-hour drive to Nepal’s second city – Pokhara. Lusher and more tropical than Kathmandu, Pokhara’s setting at the base of some of Nepal’s most famous mountains – Machapucha...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Lumbini Hotel Kasai
Should you wish, you can rise early for sunrise on the Annapurnas from Sarankot. After breakfast, you will say goodbye to the mountains, and head down to the Terai to very holy town of...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Lumbini Hotel Kasai
You can continue your exploration of Lumbini, visiting the temples, reading the inscription on the Ashokan pillar, and perhaps doing a bit of your own meditation. You will also drive a...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Barahi Jungle Lodge
From Lumbini, it is a relatively short drive to Royal Chitwan National Park. Although the park is known for the one-horned rhinoceros, gaida in Nepali, and the Royal Bengal Tigers, it ...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Barahi Jungle Lodge
Rising early, if it is allowed, you may take a safari out into the jungle. If there are no elephant safaris, you will take a canoe and do some early morning birding. Returning, you hav...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Manaki
After breakfast, you have a short drive to a very different place, one that is revered by both Indian and Nepali Hindus, practically unknown to foreigners, and totally off of the tourist trac...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Manaki
Rising early, you will join throngs of Indian pilgrims entering, the Janaki Mandir, a temple dedicated to Sita and Ram that is totally different from any temple in Nepal. Built in 1911 by a ...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: Inn At Patan, Hotel Yak And Yeti Or Dwarika’s Hotel
This morning you will catch a flight from Janakpur back to Kathmandu. On arrival, you will be met and transferred back to the Yak and Yeti. The rest of the day...
Meals: Breakfast
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Per Person Land Price as per US dollars
- $3,925: 7-10 people
- $4,110: 4-6 people
- $6,595: one person
Notes:
- Per Person Supplement For Yak And Yeti Hotel: $198/pp in a double room, $330/pp in a single
- Per Person Supplement For Dwarika’s Hotel: $506/pp in a double room, $946/pp in a single
- Optional Everest View Flight: $248
- Optional Paragliding In Pokhara: $175
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Logistics
What's excluded
- International airfare
- Insurance Coverage
- Paragliding (broken out separately
- Everest View Flight (broken out separately)
- Departure taxes, liquor, laundry or other items of a personal nature
- Tipping is normal, but entirely at your discretion
Accommodation
- Inn At Patan, Hotel Yak And Yeti Or Dwarika’s Hotel
- Old House
- Fish Tail Lodge
- Lumbini Hotel Kasai
- Barahi Jungle Lodge
- Hotel Manaki
International Airfare/Air Tickets: Refund subject to airline cancellation rules and procedures.
Land Portion & Internal Air*: Refund will be given according to the schedule outlined below.
NOTE: Minimum cancellation charge is $1,000 even for trips with land cost less than $1500.
- If 120 Days or more prior to departure date, then Applicable Cancellation Fee is $1,000 per person plus any varying non-refundable pre-payments we have made in advance on your behalf (i.e. Penalties incurred for cancelling air, deposits paid to hold reservations, etc.)
- If 61-119 Days prior to departure date, then Applicable Cancellation Fee is 50% of the land cost plus any varying non-refundable pre-payments we have made in advance on your behalf (i.e. Penalties incurred for cancelling air, deposits paid to hold reservations, etc.)
- 60 Days or less, then No refund
- At or after departure, then No refund
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