2019

Private bookings available 

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Annapurna Base Camp

Trek the majestic Himalayan Mountains guided by qualified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach to jump-start your health and calm your mind.

A peaceful and clear mind = HAPPINESS

Re-set and re-align yourself on your health journey…

Breaking habit patterns back home requires huge amounts of effort and focus when surrounded by familiar temptations and actions that don’t serve your long-term health goals; like habitually drinking too much, eating foods that don’t align with balance, or going straight to the TV after work.

The trekking serves the purpose of healthy weight loss while my teaching and support gives you awareness and understanding of the steps you need to take to achieve and sustain health goals into the future. Being healthy is not the end goal, rather serves as a tool as you have the strenth and confidence to grab opportunities and achieve your life goals.

We’ll explore how “healthy relationships, a fulfilling career, regular physical activity, and a spiritual awareness feed you more than the food on your plate.” Joshua Rosenthal

 

Time in a beautiful, calming environment allows space for you to gain perspective on your priorities in life, develop insight into what might be going wrong, and strategize how to manifest the life of your satisfied with and excited by.

Teaching:

• Holistic Wellness
• Goals and Intentions
• Identity Development
• Fear and Procrastination
• Happiness
• Relationships
• Career Congruency
• Exercise
• Spirituality
• Stress and Self-care
• Sugar
• Habits

Coaching:

• Personalised Health History consultation via Skype
• Follow up personal session via Skype after returning home.
• Daily group coaching in the mountains
• Morning Meditation: 10 mins: wrapping up with a reminder of the intention behind doing meditation and a gratitude practice

Duration: 9 days trekking – (England to England 14 days)

Difficulty: Strenuous: suitable for anyone with some trekking experience and a good level of fitness.

Price: £1199 pp (minimum 2 people for trip to run)

If you want your own room: a 25% price increase

Highlights

o   Sunrise at Poon Hill

o   Varied scenery of natural beauty and charming mountain villages

o   Hot Springs at Jinudanda

o   Relaxing in Pokhara post trek

Steady acclimatisation allows the body to heal and adapt to higher altitudes

The food along the trail is delicious, nutritious, and mostly locally grown. There is traditional food on the menu of Daal Bhat (rice, lentils and curry) or western style foods have creeped in – pastas, pizzas, rice dishes, potato dishes, eggs, muesli, porridge, pancakes (I can help guide you on choosing nourishing nutritious choices while also allowing you to choose whatever you want to refuel your body after a hard days trekking).

Meat is something is avoid in the mountain as it can often make you sick…not ideal

Guesthouses are comfortable – offered a bed, pillow, duvet, (sleeping bag needed though) and heated dining rooms, home cooked meals, sometimes you will even find a western toilet otherwise squatting ones. You can even have a shower!

Nepalese people are legendary for their smiles and friendly spirit

Daily schedule:

• 7am: Optional 10 minute guided meditation
• Breakfast
• Packing
• Leave for days hiking accompanied by a local guide  – we will rest roughly every 45 minutes and allow muscles to rest for 15 minutes to maximise weight loss and minimise muscle and joint damage – but also rest breaks can happen whenever you want them
• Lunch along the way
• Arrive early afternoon
• 5 – 5:45: Teaching
• 6:00 dinner

Check List

• Travel Insurance – STA Travel a good choice £76 premium for 1 month
• $40 needed on arrival for visa
• Walking boots – with ankle support
• Walking socks
• Waterproof – ideally GORTEX
• Pillow cover
• Dry towel – a specialist traveling towel – you can buy out there
• Sleeping bag – You can rent out there
• Sleeping bag liner – silk is warmer
• Warm puffa jacket – You can rent out there
• Knickers – 6 pairs
• Water bottle – ideally one that doesn’t leach chemicals in the water – Whole foods
• Sunglasses
• Day backpack – a porter will carry your big bag. 
• Waterproof cover for big and small bag
• 2 trekking tops
• 1 sleeping top
• Sleeping leggings/ PJs/ tracksuit (warm)
• Sun cream
• Head torch
• Swim suit – Hot springs along the way
• Crampons [buy out in Nepal – cheap and perfect for our trekking needs] – only needed in Feb/March: something that allows you to walk on snow/ice/glaciers
• Trekking poles (optional)
• Diamox – or an equivalent medication for altitude acclimatisation – you can buy out in Nepal prior to the trek

Stuff that don’t necessarily need high quality and you can buy out there

• Warm fleece
• Warm had
• Sun hat
• Trekking trousers (the sexy kind that can become shorts) – you can buy cheap out there

Supplements

• Protein power – Sunwarrior vegan ideal – amazon
• Spirulina – detoxes free-radicals in the blood – when we lose weight toxins stored in the fat get released into the blood, so it is good to eat more greens to clean the blood
• Omega 3 pills – reduces inflammation around the joints and balances mood

What’s included

• Personalised Health History consultation
• Teaching
• Wellness Guide covering topic areas of teaching
• 3 Meals a day during the trek: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
• Qualified trekking guide – although I am very familiar with the path having walked the trail many times
• Trekking porter to carry your bag
• Permits for trekking
• All accommodation
• Transfers within Nepal

What’s not included:

• Flights to Nepal
• Visa fees – passport photo and dollars needed on arrival (1 month: $40)
• Travel insurance – 1 month premium cover at £76
• Personal expenses, including but not limited to: phone calls; laundry; costs of alcohol; recharging batteries; additional porters; bottled or boiled water; and showers; among others
• Lunch and dinners in the cities
• Tips for local guide and porter
• Vitamin supplements
• Kit

Itinerary

Day 1: Airport pick up to bring you to your comfortable accommodation, then all meet each other at a delish restaurant.

Day 2: 7am bus to Pokhara 6/7hrs, then buy any last minute stuff and last supper before our expedition.

Day 3: Taxi to the start of the trek (1525m) then walk through charming villages before a steep ascent up steps to Ulleri (1940m). 5hrs

Day 4: From Ulleri up through the beautiful Rhododendron forest to Ghorepani (2750m). 4hrs

Day 5: Sunrise walk to Poon Hill (3210m) 1hr 15mins where you’ll get a panorama view on the Annapurnas then down for breakfast before setting off through majestic root embedded paths and past a waterfall to Chuile (total 7/8hrs)

Day 6: From Chuile down and up the valley through farms stopping at the infamous Chhromong Cottage for lunch along the way to Sinuwa (2360m). 5/6hr

Day 7: Up the valley form Sinuwa through bamboo woodland to Deurali (3200m). 5/6hrs

Day 8: Continuing up from Deurali to our highest point at Annapurna Base Camp (4130m). 4hrs

Day 9: Early wake up for a breath-taking sunrise view of Annapurna, then breakfast before descending down along the path we came to Bamboo (2310m). 6hrs

Day 10: Bamboo to Jhinudanda (1780m) 6hrs where you’ll relax in natures hot springs next to a river 20mins walk down the valley.

Day 11: Jhinudanda to Siwai, 4hrs, where we will get a taxi back to Pokhara and enjoy a celebratory meal together

Day 12: free day in Pokhara with lots of activates to choose from (although I predict you will want to be doing a relaxing whole lot of nothing to repair – a lovely massage may be just what you need)

Day 13: 7am bus back to Kathmandu. For our last evening we have dinner in Boudhanath which has one of the largest unique structure’s stupas in the world. Tibetan merchants have rested and offered prayers here for many centuries. When refugees entered Nepal from Tibet in the 1950s, many decided to live around Boudhanath. The Stupa is said to entomb the remains of Kassapa Buddha. We meet a local guide to give us a deeper description of the mythology and history before enjoying a cocktail and our final celebratory dinner together.

Day 14: Breakfast in the hotel then adios on your flight home