Discover Nepal's Destinations

A cluster of sacred alpine lakes at 4,380 m that tens of thousands of pilgrims walk to each August — and a fine trek for everyone else.

A sacred Himalayan valley closed to outsiders until 2008, where killing animals has been forbidden by community agreement for over a century.

Nepal's deepest lake, and beyond it the Bon heartland of Upper Dolpo — a camping expedition into the most remote inhabited country in the Himalaya.

Nepal's largest lake, ringed by pine forest at 2,990 m in the far west — and among the least visited places in the country.

The birthplace of the Buddha, confirmed by a stone pillar raised in the third century BCE — and one of the four principal Buddhist pilgrimage sites.

Nepal's largest lowland park and its best chance of a wild tiger — remote, sparsely visited and considerably wilder than Chitwan.

A temple at 3,800 m held sacred by Hindus and Buddhists alike, in the arid Kali Gandaki valley — reachable on foot, by jeep or by air.

The most varied trekking region in Nepal and the most accessible — everything from a three-day ridge walk to a three-week circuit over a 5,416 m pass, all starting from Pokhara.

A restricted region in Gorkha built around the eighth-highest mountain on earth, with a single long gorge leading to a 5,106 m pass and a sacred side valley branching off it.

Three weeks into Nepal's far eastern corner to the base of the world's third-highest mountain — the most genuinely remote teahouse trek in the country.

Seven UNESCO Monument Zones within an hour of each other — the densest concentration of world heritage sites anywhere in Asia.

A lakeside town at 820 m with the Annapurnas 30 km away — trailhead, adventure hub, and the place everyone recovers after a trek.

Nepal's first national park, a UNESCO site in the subtropical Terai — one-horned rhino, Bengal tiger, gharial and the Tharu communities who live alongside them.

The high valley directly north of Kathmandu — reached by road rather than flight, and the region where trekking income is most visibly rebuilding the place you walk through.

A former Tibetan kingdom in the rain shadow north of the Annapurnas — walled city, cave monasteries, and the one major trek that works through the monsoon.

The Khumbu — Sherpa country beneath the highest mountain on earth, and the most developed trekking region in Nepal, with four genuinely different routes through it.