Trip Info
We strictly prioritize our valuable client’s safety and satisfaction while traveling with Alpine Ramble Treks. Your safety is our paramount concern for us. On every trip with ART, our guides and porters will be carrying useful and necessary equipment as well as the medical kit, you will be provided by our leaders who have extensive knowledge of first aid if required. However, during the trip; natural disasters, weather disturbances, health conditions, politics, transport, or a multitude of other factors, are beyond our control and can result in a change of originally planned itinerary or cancel the trip as a safeguard. However, our guide has full authority to alter or even drop the planned itinerary of any part if it is necessary due to safety concerns. In this circumstance, you need to be flexible with your planned itinerary and take after the guideline as instructed by your guide/ leader. Note:- we do everything we can to minimize its effect, but we won’t be responsible for any result of alterations on itineraries or any delays due to unexpected circumstances.
Personal Travel Insurance
We highly recommended a compressive travel insurance package to all our clients, the insurance must cover helicopter rescue and evacuation expenses at Height altitude for the trekkers to Annapurna base camp, and it will be assisted with adequate protection tour to cover personal injury, medical expenses, repatriation expenses, and any kind of illness will be covered. Alpine Ramble Treks kindly ask for any of our travelers to send a reliable travel insurance copy through email once you book the trip with us.
Health and Fitness requirements
Upper Mustang Trek is an exciting and spectacular moderate trekking destination in the world. It’s an exceptional trekking route for travelers who wish to enjoy and explore the Himalayas and their landscape. As we hike up to the high altitude then we have to prepare both physically and mentally to succeed, our provision is making your trip reliable and remarkable without any problems in every step to step with your wealth health. Our first priority is your safety and security. you Should convenience yourself to take some pre-training course for the trek that would be easy, considering some physical exercise like jogging, running, climbing stairs case, cycling, swimming and hitting the gym, etc.
Accommodation during the Trek
Accommodation in Kathmandu, you would be staying at the best hotel basically 3-4 stars, on a twin-sharing basis. But Accommodations in the trekking are very basic where you will get a room with pillows, a warm and nice blanket, attach bathroom if it’s available with comfortable beds during the 10 days Annapurna base camp trek, if you are single you get the single bedroom as well with hygienic food, The Menu for food and accommodation have fixed by local management community.
Passport and Visa
All clients must have a valid passport with at least 6 months prior validity from the return date Nepalese visas can be obtained from the immigration office or Consulate in your country or arrival at Kathmandu Airport.
Last-minute booking
Concerning your desirable interest in any trip with us, we even accept the last minute booking. You can book a trip directly by calling or sending a message anytime. But eventually, Last minute booking may not acceptable for Bhutan and Tibet trips.
Water Meals and Drinking
The Upper Mustang Trek route has numerous tea houses along the way and every single tea house has a menu system with different ethnic cuisines foods as well as western meals on the Menu; you will eat as per Menu during the trek, we would highly recommend the vegetable items instead of Meat because the meat in the mountain can be effected some time because it may not be used to it for the new travelers in this region. But some places provide you with typical Nepali meals which are different types of international meals. These are prepared by the local supplement. Every tourist Lodge has a well-trained cook basically attention to clean, hygienic, fresh, and nice testy foods. The variety of drinks and every lodge has safe drinking water or minerals bottles of water you could buy. If you buy a water purification tablet from Kathmandu you can take water from the tap and purify yourself this will be cheaper and help to control plastic pollution as well, the water you could buy everywhere in the Mustang region at a reasonable price but the price would go high when you go to high-altitude areas. We also recommend you buy boiled water instead of cold which keeps your body warm.
Extra personal expenses on trekking
During the trek, all the food is included (Lunch, Breakfast, and Dinner with hot drinks) which will be provided by the company, behind the schedule of our package the meals and accommodations in Kathmandu will have to be arranged by yourself but Breakfast with hotel and farewell dinner is included.
Equipment lists for Upper Mustang Trek
Head
- Sun hat
- Warm hat and scarf
- Headlight
Face
- Sunscreen +40
- Sunglass
- Face wipes and towels
List for Hands
- Lightweight gloves
- And warm Globes
Body clothing
- Down or fiber-filled jacket (the company will be provided in rent)
- Down or fiber-filled jacket (the company will be provided in rent)
- 2 pairs of hiking t-shirts, preferably quick-drying, possibly thermal tops for the treks
- Fleece jacket and sweaters
- Poncho and rain jacket
- Socks, preferably a cotton–mix
- Lightweight cotton trekking pants with a folding option
Lists of Footwear
- The proper Trekking Boots
- socks preferably cotton sports socks but take some extra pairs
- crampon (optional)
Essential gear
- Day Backpack above the 30 L
- Pack covers and Thermal bottle
- Water pearls
- Umbrella
- Walking pole if you need it
- Thick Sleeping bag
- Deodorant
- Laundry soap
- Antibacterial Gel
- Toiletries
- toothbrush
- Shampoo
Personal accessories
- Camera
- Cell Phone
- Money wallet with Money
- Padlocks
- Plastic bag
- Watch
- Sewing kit
- Extra p photos and passport photocopies
First-aid Kit
- Diamox (acetazolamide)
- Lozenges
- Elastic bandages
- Moleskin
- Cotton bandages and band-aids
- Lancing needle
- Antibiotic eye-drops
- Thermometer
- Sling
- Paracetamol
- Antiseptic antibacterial cream or solution
- Painkillers
- Anti-emetic for nausea (not at high altitude)
- Loperamide to control diarrhea
- Norfloxacin or Cipro to cure diarrhea, and other infections
- Oral rehydration salts
Best Season
The best season for Upper Mustang Trek is spring (March to May) and autumn (September to November) these months are the best months for the Upper Mustang trek. The temperature is moderate in these seasons and we guarantee an amazing view and breathtaking scenery throughout the trek. If you wish to avoid crowds this trip during winter (Dec., Jan., and Feb.) could also be the best option.
Hotels in Kathmandu
Alpine Ramble Treks will provide you with standard-level hotel services with breakfast. We also book the hotel according to your choices. Please let us know if you have any plans as per your choices to book the hotels like 5 stars categories: Hyatt Regency, Yak &Yeti, De’l Annapurna, The Everest Hotel, The Malla hotel, and any kind of hotels, we will be glad to help according to your plans.
Responsible for Tourism
Our experienced field staff/team strongly believes that we all are equally responsible to act in favor of the local culture and environment. We would like to follow the important role of following the rules.
- please respect the local people and their laws, custom, and their beliefs
- Please always ask your guides for permission before doing something in the local community.
- please support the keep environment clean, wherever you would travel and dispose of rubbish
- Please help the local community to encourage the positive sides of tourism as long as possible.
We Alpine Ramble Treks are involved in the Kathmandu Environmental Education Project (KEEP) and organize eco-friendly trips that teach to make the sustainable positive environmentally sensitive of both travelers and communities.
Trip fixed departure dates and Cost
Alpine Ramble Treks Pvt. Ltd would be customized your trip itinerary according to your wish and budget. Please do not hesitate to contact us for your interest. For more detail please email us at info@alpineramble.com
Booking and payment process
Alpine Ramble Treks (P) Ltd. is a government-authorized and registered trekking and adventure operator based in Nepal. The company registered number is 178805/074/075 we are also associated with various local tourism sectors in order to process the trip booking with Alpine Ramble the percent of full trip payments can be made with required documents such as passport, travel insurance copies, and flight details to Nepal with a two weeks period from the booking date.
- respected traveler can be made the Payment through the Online directly from our website, bank transfer, western union, or any other remittances, the remaining can be paid on your arrival at Kathmandu Hotel or office.
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We look forward to guiding you in the Himalayas for a wonderful trekking experience of a lifetime
