Number Cheese Circuit Trek - 19 Days

Our airport team welcomes you at Tribhuvan International Airport on your arrival day. You will have a hassle-free transfer to hotel from airport. The remaining day is free for rest and enjoy your bustling surroundings.

It is a day for Sightseeing in Kathmandu Valley and trek preparation. We will arrange a professional tour guide for you and a private car/van/bus with a driver to explore between monuments. The Tour guide will take you to UNESCO World Heritage Sites such Kathmandu Durbar Square, Pashupatinath, Swayambhunath and Boudhanath Stupa, the historical and cultural sites you’ll visit today.

After completion of your day tour, you will be meeting with your trek guide at our office/hotel. He will brief you about the Trek and all the essentials. The Thamel has many trekking gear shops, where you can buy missing gear in the late evening if you need.

Drive to Jiri/ Shivalaya (187 km from Kathmandu) through the mountain terrain following the traditional approach march for Everest. Enjoy fresh water fish and refreshments at Shivalay and over night.

Enjoy soft trekking along the Khimti River and enjoy lunch at Garjyang. Enjoying Sherpa culture and home-stay accommodation at Khahare. Don’t forget to taste of NCC fresh Yak Cheese.

Be ready for adventurous trekking and eco-camping. Enjoy wilderness trekking along the Khimti River and up to the Ranipakha where you will find your first eco-camping site amidst the scattered Chauri sheds and the towering alpines. Enjoy rare sunset views from Panipakha.

Continuing to snake you way up, the trail as it ascends through the conifer and rhododendron forest before reaching Maanedanda present stunning views of thick green forest with numerous steep waterfalls.

The trail traverses beside the mountain before a dramatic waterfall heralds your arrival at Jatapokhari (4206m), a holy mountain lake in the lap of Mt.Numbur. Over 3000 pilgrims, both Buddhist and Hindu followers, make their way here to celebrate Janaipurnima in August. Just short climb above Jatapokhari are the five sacred lakes known as Panchpokhari (4508m) within a huge glacier, moonlike cirque. Sidewalks around Panchpokhari and Panchpokhari pass offer wonderful panoramic views of the Rolwaling, Numbur and Everest Ranges.

The trail takes you to Khola Kharka and further downhill to Nupche River via thick bamboo forest. Enjoy fresh cheese making in green pasture alongside the Nupche River before you reach to your eco-camping site at Tare. For anyone with an extra day, a side trip to Bigphera Go Nup base camp/Glacier, Khola Cire (4469m), Linkhu Nup Glacier and impressive Lhasa Lake (4469m) is recommended.

The most strenuous section of the NCC, the trail from Tare to the Likhu Khola valley is one that is both challenging and rewarding. The mountain views extending north into Tibet as you cross the Gyajo La (Thulo Lapcha) at 4880m Rakhidanda and Ngeju) are amazing. “Wilderness” is the only apt term for the wild and rugged basin of the Lhiku River valley, Dudhpokhari Lake, Likhu glacier at the base of towering dropping glaciers and large moraines. The trek down from the Likhu glacier takes you to Ngeju (3690m) nestled against the river. A short side trip up from Ngeju is the ancient Buddhist Shrine of Kau Gumba.

From Ngeju the trail weaves through thick ancient forests alongside the Likhu Khola re-emerging to Lhachhewar (2665m), one of the most attractive Sherpa villages with its astonishing landscapes, cultural wealth, famous monastery, and the hospitable Sherpa people. Lhachhewar offers untouched Sherpa culture where people have maintained the traditional way of life. In Lhachhewar and onwards, the camping facilities can also be combined with the home-stay accommodation maintained at traditional Sherpa houses.

The trail goes through the river valley, passing one of the still hidden Hindu pilgrimage site, ‘UMATIRTHA TEMPLE’ regarded  as the KASHI of Himalayas at the meeting of Likhu and Nupche River; descending through deep forest to Kyama (2380m) with gold views along the way of  Bigphera Go Nup (Pathibara) and Numberchuili. Enjoy Monastery, Sherpa lifestyle and home-stay at the peaceful village environment.

With the gleaming Numberchuili as the backdrop, Gumdel is a tiny hamlet gathered around a large Buddhist Stuppa. The Gumdel home-stays offer the best of Sherpa hospitality and cultural traditions amidst plentiful landscape and fantastic mountain scenery.

From Gumdel the trail either descends through the mountain terrace along the Likhu River finally meeting the Everest trail at Bhandar or ascends through the dense forest finally reaching the beautiful Serdding (3360m). Enjoy folded temperate and subalpine forest at the backdrop of Numburchuli, Bigphera Go and Gaurishankar Himal range from Serding and Punnasa Danda. Enjoy fresh Yak cheese and cheese making process.

Descend softly to observe one of Nepal’s first Yak Cheese factories, established in 1957 on the way to Thodung. Visit Thodung Monastery and get warm blassing from Lamas. Get your lunch with Lamas at Thodung or stroll back down to Deurali on the way to Everest trek, with good views of Gaurishanker before trekking to your penultimate NCC home-stay village at Newari houses, Lapchane. Tamdanda, thirty minutes above the Newar village of Lapchane, is one of the tallest hills in Ramechhap. From Tame you can see most of the central and eastern Himalayan peaks Dhaulagiri, Annapurna, Gauri Shanker, Numbur, Makalu, Kanchenjunga.

Enjoy sunrise view of mountains from Tame and gradually descend down to your last stay at Those.

Drive back to Kathmandu via Jiri and over night in Kathmandu.

As we have successfully completed the trip, it is time to return home or embark on your next journey. Even you can join our next adventures trips in the Himalayas if you wish too. If not, our airport team will take care of your airport escort and say you our last goodbye till the next adventure holidays.