Mardi Himal Basecamp Trek

After breakfast, we'll visit
1) Pashupatinath temple – regarded as the most sacred temple of Hindu Lord Shiva in the world with its astonishing architectural beauty, stands as a symbol of faith, religion, culture and tradition.

2) Swayambhunath Stupa –The Most Enigmatic Holy Shrine situated on the top of a hill, west of Kathmandu, is one of the most popular, holy and instantly recognizable symbols of Nepal. The temple is colloquially known as the 'monkey temple' because of the large tribe of roving monkeys who guard the temple.
3) Kathmandu Durbar Square Listed as one of the eight Cultural World Heritage site by UNESCO, famous for Living Goddess Kumari, is a cluster of ancient temples, palaces, courtyards and streets that date back to the 12th and 18th centuries.
The square is known to be the social, religious and urban focal point of the capital city. The palace complex was the royal Nepalese residence until the 19th century and is the site of important ceremonies, such as the coronation of the Nepalese Monarchy.
Overnight.

Breakfast and Drive to Pokhara –beautiful lake city on the foothill of Annapurna massif. Transport to hotel, Check in and Rest. Roam around the lake side area, boating. Overnight.

Breakfast and Drive to Kande –our trek starting point. We stretch little and start our trekking. We cross the small village section, then steep climb up to Australian Camp. Australian camp is one of the beautiful view point tea house area. There are some old sheep grazing meadows too from where one can observe the best view of Mt. Fishtail and Annapurna massifs, southern green valleys. We continue our trek toward north through the mixed jungle and village pothana. From pothana, trail is gentle and walks through the thick rhododendron forest. Nicely stone paved trail will take us to the Pritam Deurali. Overnight.

We follow the trail toward our right to Mardi Basecamp, left trail will take us to Annapurna Basecamp trail. We walks through the thick jungle trail of Maple, rhododendron, birch, mountain oak, hemlock.
We reach to Forest Camp in the middle of the jungle just beside the vertical slope of northwestern Annapurna region. One of the connecting trail to Annapurna base camp via Landruk separates here as trail goes steep down to Landruk and further down to Modi riverbelt –the river directly coming down from Annapurna Massifs.
We continue our ascending through the jungle following the stone paved path. We reach Rest camp from where beautiful fishtail can be observed and the next ridge line toward east also connected to Mt. Fishtail. We follow the trail through the dense forest slowly and sturdily. We reach to Low Camp. Overnight.

After having breakfast, we leave for Badal danda. Again we walks through the jungle with steeper ascending. We come across at small tea house from where tree barren ridge line can be seen. We cross small section of jungle. We see that now tree line ends here and only higher ridgeline and meadow can be seen. We reach to Badal Danda 3300m meaning Cloud Hill tops. Badal danda is named and famous because it’s a view points from where you see clouds lower than you and your place covering whole valley special in the morning time.
We follow the ridge line trail to High Camp. The trail offers wonderful multiple views of Himalayas and valleys. We reach to High Camp. Overnight.

We leave early in the morning for upper view point and Mardi Basecamp so that we do not miss the best view of Himalayas. We climb to Upper View point which takes approx. 3hrs and another an hour to reach to the Mardi Basecamp. Basecamp and upper view point offers breathtaking view of Himalayan ranges notably Mt. Fishtail(6993m), Mt. Annapurna I(8091M), Annpurna South, Hiuchuli, Gangapurna, Mardi Himal etc.
We return back to High camp. Overnight.

We retrace the trail back low camp through the same dense forest viewing southern valleys and beautiful villages. Overnight.

We leave early morning to siding where our vehicle is waiting for us. This steep deep jungle descend to Siding takes almost 2-3hrs. We catch the jeep and drive back to Pokhara. Overnight in Pokhara.

Morning go for half day sightseeing of International Mountain Museum, Davis Falls, Mahadev Cave, And Tibetan Refugee Camp. Afternoon fly back to Kathmandu and Rest. Free time for last minute exploration of Kathmandu valley -city of ages old Culture and Tradition. Overnight.

Breakfast and timely transfer to International Airport for your way back to home with beautiful memories.