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Nepal — Kathmandu & Pokhara, Bagmati & Gandaki

Nepal — Kathmandu & Pokhara

Bagmati & Gandaki, Nepal

No visa, no language barrier and eight of the world's fourteen 8,000 m peaks — the most accessible serious mountain country an Indian passport can reach.

Trips here
1 trip
From
₹36,500 /person
Next departure
10 Oct 2026
Country
Nepal

Practical facts for Nepal — Kathmandu & Pokhara

Season, route in, and what an Indian passport needs at the border. Rules change — confirm the visa position close to your departure.

  • Best time to go

    October and November are the best weeks of the year: post-monsoon, stable, and the clearest mountain views. March and April are the second season, warmer and hazier low down but with rhododendron in flower between 2,500 and 3,300 m. December to February is cold and clear but the high passes hold snow. June to September is the monsoon — leeches, cloud and no views.

  • Getting there

    Kathmandu (KTM) is non-stop from Delhi (about 1h45), Kolkata (1h15), Varanasi, Lucknow, Mumbai (about 3h), Bengaluru and Ahmedabad. Pokhara is a 25-minute domestic flight from Kathmandu or six to seven hours by road on the Prithvi Highway. Overland entry from India by road at Sunauli, Raxaul or Kakarbhitta is also open to Indian nationals.

  • Good to know

    Visa-free

    Visa: none required for Indian nationals. Carry a passport, or a voter ID card issued by the Election Commission of India, as photo identity — those are the two documents Nepali immigration accepts for Indians arriving by air.

    Currency:
    Nepalese rupee (NPR), pegged at 1.60 NPR to 1 INR. Indian notes are accepted, but denominations above ₹100 are restricted in Nepal — carry ₹100s or change money on arrival.
    Permits:
    trekking in the Annapurna region needs an ACAP permit and a trekker registration card; both are arranged in Kathmandu or Pokhara and are included on our departures.
    Rough daily budget:
    ₹1,500–2,500 per person for meals and incidentals in the cities; teahouse trails run higher than you would expect because everything is carried up.

1 trip in Nepal — Kathmandu & Pokhara

Fixed dates, live seat counts, run by our own leaders.

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What to know about Nepal — Kathmandu & Pokhara

Nepal is the shortest possible step from Indian trekking to Himalayan trekking, and for Indian nationals it is administratively almost frictionless: no visa, the rupee accepted at a fixed rate, and Hindi understood nearly everywhere. What it adds is scale. Eight of the fourteen mountains above 8,000 m stand in or on the border of this country.

The Kathmandu valley holds seven UNESCO-listed monument zones in an area smaller than Delhi. Pashupatinath on the Bagmati is one of the most important Shaiva sites anywhere and functions as a cremation ground as well as a temple; Boudhanath is among the largest stupas in the world and the centre of Tibetan Kathmandu; Swayambhunath sits on its hill above the city; and the three Durbar Squares at Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur are Newar palace complexes, substantially rebuilt after the 2015 earthquake.

Pokhara, two hundred kilometres west at about 820 m, is the trekking capital and the softest-landing lake town in the Himalaya. Phewa Tal reflects the Annapurna wall on a still morning; Machhapuchhre, the unclimbed fishtail peak at 6,993 m, stands almost directly north; and the teahouse trails into the Annapurna Conservation Area — Ghorepani, Poon Hill at 3,210 m, Ghandruk — start within an hour's drive.

  • Nepal — Kathmandu & Pokhara, Bagmati & Gandaki
  • Nepal — Kathmandu & Pokhara, Bagmati & Gandaki
  • Nepal — Kathmandu & Pokhara, Bagmati & Gandaki

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Reviews from travellers in Nepal — Kathmandu & Pokhara

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    Suraj Thapa

    Verified booking

    Ulleri is the day. Everything else is fine.

    Three thousand-odd stone steps in one morning, and the itinerary says so in plain language. Take it in twenty-minute blocks and you will be fine. After that the trek is comfortable — Ghandruk day is three hours and mostly downhill, and the placement of that easy day is clearly deliberate. Guide carried oxygen and checked us with an oximeter every evening.

    Annapurna Teahouse Trek — Poon Hill & GhandrukApril 2026
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    Aparna Godbole

    Verified booking

    The best value week I have ever booked

    Eight days, four of them walking, a licensed guide, porters, permits and teahouses, and I paid less than my last domestic trek. Poon Hill at dawn with Dhaulagiri going pink is the single best mountain view I have stood in front of. No visa, rupees accepted, Hindi understood — it barely feels like going abroad until you look up.

    Annapurna Teahouse Trek — Poon Hill & GhandrukApril 2026

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