Annapurna Circuit
2024
Friday 29th March – Friday 12th April
2025
Sunday 30th March – Saturday 12th April
15 days £1599
BOOKING: bellasomerset@gmail.com
Trek the majestic Himalayan Mountains to jump-start your health and calm your mind.
Re-set and re-align yourself on your mental and physical health…
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.
Trekking boosts physical and mental wellbeing, connects one with nature and manifests a calm mind as one leaves stressors behind
Bella’s role as a Mountain Leader, Yoga Instructor and Health Coach is to facilitate safety, support and management throughout the experience.
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.
A peaceful and clear mind = HAPPINESS
Duration 10 days trekking – 14 day round trip
Difficulty: Strenuous: good level of fitness is needed – some trekking experience is preferable.
Highest Altitude: 5,416m crossing Thorong La pass
Price: £1599 per person (minimum number of people for trip to run – 3)
If you want your own room: a 25% price increase
Accommodation: Guesthouses are comfortable – a bed, pillow, duvet, (sleeping bag needed) and heated dining rooms, home cooked meals, sometimes you will even find a western toilet otherwise squatting ones.
Nepalese people are legendary for their smiles and friendly spirit
Food: The food along the trail is delicious, nutritious, and mostly locally grown. There is traditional food on the menu of Dhal 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).
Highlights
- Sunrise at Poon Hill and panoramic views of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri mountain ranges
- Varied scenery of natural beauty and charming mountain villages
- Bob Marley Guesthouse – legendary on the trail for delicious food and fun atmosphere
- Rhododendron forests
- Sense of accomplishment after completing Thorong La Pass
- People you meet along the way…locals and fellow backpackers
- Yoga with breathtaking views (yoga is optional on the trek for those who want it – without mats)
Steady acclimatisation and a rest day to allow the body to heal and adapt to higher altitudes
Daily schedule:
- Morning yoga 7/7:30
- 7:30/8am 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
- Optional Yoga sometimes possible
- 6:00 dinner
Frequently Asked Questions
Check List
- Travel Insurance – with helicoper evacuation up to 6,000m
- $30 needed on arrival for 15 day visa
What’s included
- 3 Meals a day during the trek: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Qualified Nepali trekking guide
- Trekking porter to carry your bag – shared between two (7.5kg each)
- Permits for trekking
- All accommodation
- Transfers within Nepal
What’s not included:
- Flights to Nepal
- Visa fees – (15 days: $30)
- Travel insurance – With helicopter evacuation up to 6,000m
- 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
- Entrance to cultural sites 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 delicious restaurant
Day 2: Bus or private jeep to Besi Sahar and then jeep to Dharapani (1860m). Yoga on arrival before dinner
Day 3: 7am – 45 min optional yoga
Trek Dharapani to Chame (2680m) 6hrs. 15.5 km
Day 4: 7:15-8am yoga on patio
Chame to Upper Pisang (3300m). 14.5km (5.5hrs)
Day 5: Upper Pisang to Manang (3500m). 17km (6-7hrs). 30 mins yoga pre lunch en-route
Day 6: Rest day – acclimatisation walk 45min up – 1hr Hatha yoga overlooking the mountains and valley
Day 7: 7:30-8am yoga on the balcony
Manang to Yak Kharka (4010m). 10.5km (3.5hrs). After lunch we do an acclimatisation walk 45min up and (optional) meditation at the top.
Day 8: Yak Kharka to Thorong Phedi (4450m) 7.3km (3.5hrs)
where we leave our bags and walk up to High Camp (4900m) 1hr up 400m for lunch and acclimatisation before going back down to Thorong Phedi to sleep at a lower altitude to prevent against altitude sickness.
Day 9: From Thorong Phedi we start in the dark at 5am and walk up the steep ascent to High Camp and over the Thorong La Pass (5430m) before descending down to have lunch in Charabu (4230m) then onto the infamous Bob Marley Guest House in Muktinath (3800m) 16.4km, 9hrs, 900m ascent, 1600m descent
Day 10: Muktinath to Tatopani (1200m) via bus or jeep 4/5hrs. Acting as a rest day. Post lunch restorative yoga – 1hr. The delight of being able to rest the muscles in the hot springs and kick back with a cold drink.
Day 11: Tatopani to Ghorepani (2800m) 7/8hrs, 16.9km 1700m ascent. Yoga on arrival for those with the energy
Day 12: Early wake up – 45min, 400m ascent, 1.5km, for a breath-taking sunrise view of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri Mountain Ranges from Poon Hill (3200m), then descending back down for breakfast before descending down via Ullery where we’ll order lunch and do 45min of yoga. After lunch we’ll descend down to Hille to get a taxi back to Pokhara. 10km, 4 hrs
Day 13: 7am bus back to Kathmandu (optional flight alternative). For our last evening we will go for drinks 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’ll enjoy a drink together before going back to Thamel for our last supper.
Day 14: Breakfast in the hotel then adios on your flight home.
Review:
‘One of’ if not possibly ‘the’ most amazing thing I’ve ever done. 18 days hiking round the breathtaking Annapurna circuit with the beautiful Bella Somerset our holistic health coach, guiding us through the wilderness of our minds, while surrounded by this epic scenery to nourish our souls. Won’t be forgetting this for while…!
Iona H
Review:
Just finished the Annapurna circuit and it feels incredible. We trekked for 15 days with the highest altitude being 5416m. This is us going over the pass. Couldn’t have done it without Bella Somerset (health coach, walking guide and much much more). If anyone is thinking about going trekking in Nepal, she is your girl and I seriously recommend her course.
Claudia L
