Nepal travel guides from people who’ve actually been there
Trekking routes, national parks, airlines, and the practical bits nobody else tells you. No package tours, no filler — just the answers you’ll wish you had before booking.
A directory became a guide.
Nepal Tourism Directory has been around since 2004. Back then it was the phone book — a place to look up trekking agencies, hotels, airlines, and the contact details of half the guides in Kathmandu. The internet moved on, and so did we.
In 2026 we’re rebuilding the site from the ground up as a practical travel guide. The listings are gone. What’s here now is the knowledge behind them: how to fly to the Karnali without losing two days to cancelled planes, where to actually see a red panda, why October is better than May for trekking peaks, and what you should genuinely skip. Every guide is written from first-hand research — scraped sources, verified operators, real cost breakdowns in rupees and dollars both.
Rara National Park Nepal: 7-Day Trek to Rara Lake
Nepal’s smallest national park wraps around its largest lake, two Twin Otter flights from Kathmandu and almost nobody goes. Here’s the full Jumla-in, Talcha-out trek with real NPR costs, honest notes on the weather-cancellation roulette, and what you’ll actually see (spoiler: not the snow leopards).
Browse the guides
Four starting points. Everything on the site comes off one of these — we’ll fill them out as the writing lands.
Who writes this
Long-time Nepal travellers, trekking regulars, and a small group of Kathmandu-based contributors. We scrape competitor sources, verify every price and permit number against official data, and only publish a guide when we’d personally hand it to a friend who asked. We’re happy to admit when we haven’t seen something ourselves — hallucinated content is how travel blogs lose trust, and we’d rather flag a gap than fake the answer.
