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Dhaulagiri Base Camp Trek (15 days trek / total 19 days)

This is probably the single most extreme non-exploratory trek you can do in Nepal. You need a high level of fitness, a considerable ease in the outdoors, and basic mountaineering skills. There's a lot of untamed forest and difficult trails lower down, and as you go further up, you truly are all alone in the mountains and there are some extremely demanding parts of what goes for the trail. You truly must be able to hold your own here - a landscape this stark and isolated requires as much mental preparation as physical. The pay-off is an extraordinary sense of calm, as well as proximity to and view of the entire Dhaulagiri Himal and the sixth highest mountain in the world, Dhaulagiri I (8,167 m). And, of course a sense of true extreme adventure. The hardest part is crossing over into the Kali Gandaki Valley, which is separated from the north and west of the Dhaulagiri massif by over a dozen peaks higher than 7,000 m. Once you've managed that, though, you'll be rewarded with the exceptionally pretty and hospitable Thakali villages of Marpha and Tukuche, and hot springs furthre down. You see trans-Himalayan culture at its most 'normal' - it will feel you've got to a very cosmopoltitan town, after what you've accomplished.

*Day*	*Program*
Day 01	You will be picked up by our representative from airport and transfer to the hotel.
Day 02	Free day in Kathmandu, night at hotel.
*Day 03-17 trek as per program given below ;*
Day 03	On the bus from Kathmandu to Baglung.
Day 04	An easy day's walk past streams and fields to Babichour (920 m).
Day 05	The ease continues as you walk under the icy peaks in sub-tropical conditions to Dorbang (1,200 m).
Day 06	Gorban Dhara (1,930 m).
Day 07	Boghara (2,080 m).
Day 08	Dobang (2,880 m).
Day 09	Ascend a challenging moraine to cross the glacier and reach the Italian Camp
Day 10	Extreme walking among glaciers, glacial ridges, steep moraines, and crumbling seracs to the next camp at 4,300 m. Stay here to acclimatise.
Day 11	There's more of the same today to get to Dhaulagiri Base Camp at (4,900 m).
Day 12	French Pass (5,400 m) and break for the night in the appropriately-named Hidden Valley (5,020 m).
Day 13	Thapa Pass (5,240 m) to drop down into Yak Kharka, a typical Himalayan high-altitude pasture. The views from the pass of the Annapurnas, Nilgiri, and Hiunchuli across the Kali Gandaki Valley are alone worth the exertion of the trek.
Day 14	A very steep descent to Marpha (2,680 m).
Day 15	Walk up to Jomosom (2,713 m), the major transit point that has an airport, banks, a museum, and an army encampment.
Day 16	Take the spectacular flight to Pokhara (920 m), and spend the day and night by the lake.
Day 17	On the bus to Kathmandu.
Day 18	Free day in Kathmandu for shopping. night at hotel .
Day 19	Airport transfer or back to home.

Cost per person in US $ Dollars

Type	1person	2-4 person	5-8 person	9-15 person
Camp	1232	876	794	704

Cost quoted on itineraries includes:

Airport-hotel transfer at arrival and departure
Domestic land and air transport as described in itinerary
Four nights 2 stars accommodation in Kathmandu with breakfast
All trekking and conservation area and national park permit fees,

For camping or tented Trek

All meals, camping gear (except sleeping bags) such as tents, kitchen equipment etc, salaries and insurance for guides, sherpas, cooks, porters (15 kilos per person personal belongings etc during tented treks.

For Tea House or Lodge Trek

All lodge accommodation, breakfast, salaries and insurance for guides, sherpas, sardars, porters (12 kilos per person personal belongings etc during lodge treks. Please note that lunch and dinner are not included in lodge trek costs.

* Re-confirmation of flight