Trekking in Nepal | Teahouse Trek

© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Hotel Sherpa | Bamboo Teahouse | Langtang National Park

Most popular treks in Nepal such as Annapurna, Langtang and Khumbu (Everest Region) rely on local trekking lodge or better known as “Teahouse”. After few hours of trekking you can easily find this teahouse or small lodges along the way. You can spent your night there and have your meal also.

Tea houses are not hotels, and their facilities can be quite rudimentary, but although prices have increased a lot in recent years, they are still extremely cheap by western standards.

Teahouse provided you with only some basic facilities like a basic mattress on a bed, for you to spend the night and some basic foods but there are also good lodge that will provide you with an access to the internet and some lodge have solar power to charge your camera battery or your cellphone.

Actually if you wanted to trek along the most popular trek in Nepal you don’t have to worry to carry a heavy camping equipment such as tent and cooking utensil with you. With teahouse trek you can do your trekking with comfort with minimum weight in your backpack, the only things that will weight down your backpack might be your camera equipment, especially if you plan to carry a tripod and telephoto lens like 70-200 mm with you.

You don’t even need to carry a lot of foods with you but it will be wise to carry some chocolate bar like snickers with you from Kathmandu. Even though you can found those things at the teahouse but the price is much more expensive compared to what you paid in Kathmandu, the higher you go, the more expensive the items and so does the foods.

Other than that, it is essential to carry a headlamp with you and  it will also be great to cary small candles as well because at some lodge, they have no electricity and without a candle, you will be sleeping in a complete darkness and it will get worse if you don’t have a light source if you wanted to go to the toilet in the middle of the cold night.

The other thing is, if you don’t feel comfortable sleeping under a thick smelly blanket, better bring your very own sleeping bag, so you can sleep in comfort and trust me, it is super cold up there.

© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Langtang National Park | Nepal

© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Teahouse at Changtang | Lama Hotel

© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Teahouse | Hotel Ganesh View Lodge | Rimchhe

© 2012 Wazari Wazir | River Side Hotel | Gumnachok

© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Teahouse | Langtang Valley

© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Teahouse | Langtang National Park

© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Teahouse | Langtang National Park

Hopefully with this few teahouse photographs that I manage to take along the way to Kyanjin Gompa in Langtang Valley will give you a better idea on what to expect from the Teahouse trek, it is more or less the same on other most popular trek in Nepal but if you wanted to trek in some of the remote area in Nepal such as Mustang and Upper Dolpo, you better get some more information from the net because the teahouse might be limited and maybe you need to carry your very own camping equipment, but if you choose to trek along the most popular trek in Nepal such as Annapurna, Langtang, Khumbu Region (Everest Base Camp), you don’t have to worry about carrying a heavy camping equipment.

© 2012 Wazari Wazir | Teahouse at Dusk | Langtang National Park

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