Jaljala Dhorpatan Trek traversing to Dolpa region is a remote adventure that offers incredibly beautiful views of the mountains. This adventure starts in the Annapurna region and finishes in Juphal and explores the remote area in between. You will also traverse the Dhorpatan Wildlife Reserve as one of the main attractions of the adventure. The reserve is famous for hunting and is the only hunting reserve in the country. Hunters from around the world came here to hunt, especially the Himalayan Blue Sheep.
Highlights of Jaljala Dhorpatan Trek
Beautiful and remote area exploration.
Trekking through the hunting reserve in Nepal.
Breathtaking views of the mountains of Dhaulagiri and Annapurna.
Cultural riches of the Annapurna, Dhaulagiri, and Dolpo regions.
A fairly easy walking adventure that brings you the wilderness at its best.
As a remote area adventure, we offer this trek as a camping adventure for the comfort of accommodation. Some days of the adventure go through such a desolate area where when do not even see a human settlement. But the beauty of this wilderness is surely breathtaking and worthy to experience. Jaljala Dhorpatan Trek offers an experience that no other adventures bring to you as the desolate wilderness on this trip is unique. While people can start and finish the trip in Beni, we chose to lead you to the other end to make the adventure even more wonderful.
In addition to the views of mountains, you will also experience the cultural wonders and beautiful nature. Cultures of the Annapurna, Dhaulagiri, and Dolpa and the region in between will give you a diverse experience. The remoteness of the regions is also one of the charms of the adventure. Although a remote and less explored area is an adventure, you will find it to be easy to traverse. It is not a difficult trek except for walking for multiple days. You will surely enjoy the ethnic cultures, views of mountains, nature, wildlife reserves, and beautiful surroundings.
Jaljala Dhorpatan Trek Short Iitnerary Day 01: Kathmandu Arrival Day 02: Kathmandu Sightseeing Tour Day 03: Kathmandu – Pokhara – Dharapani Day 04: Sibang – Lamsung (2,160m) Day 05: Lamsung – Jaljala (3,386m) Day 06: Jaljala – Dhorpatan (2,870m) Day 07: Dhorpatan – Thankur (3,175m) via Fagune Lekh (4,060m) Day 08: Thankur - Tatopani / Jharlung (2360 meters) Day 09: Tatopani / Jharlung – Dhule (3,300m) Day 10: Dhule – Seng Khola (3,990m) Day 11: Seng Khola – Purbang (4,065m) Day 12: Purbang – Tarakot (2,600m) via Jang La Pass (4,519m) Day 13: Tarakot – Dunai (2,096m) Day 14: Dunai – Juphal (2,475m) Day 15: Juphal – Neplagunj – Kathmandu Day 16: Rest Day in Kathmandu Day 17: Departure Day
Your arrival day in Kathmandu is the first day of the trip. We will be at the airport to welcome you to Nepal for the beautiful adventure with us. You will find us at the arrival gate of the airport with our company sign or your name. We will transfer you to the hotel where we will brief you about the trip. You will be informed of the trip briefing time upon your arrival at the hotel. Until we meet for the briefing, you have time to relax or wander around stay overnight at Hotel.
This is actually the first exploration day of the trip since we are going to take you around different heritage sites in Kathmandu valley. We will take you to visit four of the heritage monuments in Kathmandu valley that include the oldest monument of all in Kathmandu – Swoyambhunath Stupa, Patan Durbar Square – a medieval palace square, Boudhanath – antother giant Budhhist stupa, and Pashupatinath – the most important Shiva temple in the country with cremation ground on the bank of Bagmati River. The day will be full of cultural and spiritual experiences in addition to the learning about the lifestyle of people living in Kathmandu. We return back to the hotel in the late afternoon stay overnight at Hotel Breakfast included.
After breakfast drive to Kathmandu domestic airport for flight to Pokhara, Exciting flight to Lake City Pokhara about 25 minutes. After landing in Pokhara we drive to Darbang have lunch at Durbang and continue drive further up to Dharapani and short trek to Sibang (1680 meters) about 5 hours drive and 1 hour trek stay overnight at Camp.
We continue the trek for the second day to Lamsung. It is another wonderful stretch of the trail on the adventure that brings the wonderful cultural riches of the region. As we trek through pristine surroundings, we will get to see the wonders that the area has to offer us. Beautiful river, waterfall and natural surroundings will make our day before reaching the campsite at Lamsung to stay overnight at Camp.
We are trekking to beautiful Jaljala today. The walk takes us past beautiful village and forested area with fascinating view of Gurja Himal. When we reach Jaljala, a breathtaking view of the mountains and surroundings welcomes us. About 7 hours of walking effort is worth taking it to get the joy of the view from our campsite today. Jaljala makes a temporary shelter for the locals during monsoon season. We enjoy the view and surroundings once we reach the camp stay overnight at Camp.
The walk today takes us to Dhorpatan. We descend in the elevation on our walk today. The start of our walk today gets a marvelous view of the mountains from Jaljala. We walk through beautiful surroundings to reach our camp in Dhorpatan stay overnight at Camp.
The walk today will be a little bit adventurous for we have to walk over 4,000 meters. This uphill walk from Dhorpatan will take us to Fagune Lake at 4,060 meters above sea level only to descend to Thankur to stay overnight. We can enjoy beautiful surroundings along the trail. We set up our camp at Thankur stay overnight at Camp.
We continue our walk to Tatopani / Jharlung today. The elevation descends on our walk today when we reach Tatopani / Jharlung. About 6 hours of walk takes us through wonderful natural surroundings along the trail. We will enjoy the beauty and wilderness of the trail that gives us a peaceful walking experience stay overnight at Camp.
The beautiful adventure trek continues towards Dhule. We gain pretty good elevation to when we reach the camp site. To gain about 900 meters of elevation, it will take us around seven hours on the trail. But the long walking hours feel comfortable as we can get to walk past beautiful places and wonderful surroundings. We eventually reach Dhule to stay overnight at Camp.
We are on the walk to gain the elevation for a few days. We gain another 700 meters of elevation on our walk to Seng Khola today. Traversing the trail through wonderful landscapes and surroundings, we eventually reach Seng Khola after about 6 hours to stay overnight at the elevation of 3,990 meters above sea level stay overnight at Camp.
Our adventure continues to Purbang today. We are enjoying the beauty of the remoteness of the Dolpo region. One of the best remote locations in Nepal, Dolpo offers a wonderful experience of rural and remote life. However, we are not going to explore Upper Dolpo on the adventure. About six hours of walk will take us to Purbang to stay overnight at Camp.
The walk for the day today takes us to the highest elevation of the trek when we reach Jang La pass on the way to Tarakot. We trek up to Jang La Pass to be at the elevation of 4,519 meters above sea level before descending to Tarakot to stay overnight. We can enjoy magnificent views of the surroundings from the pass and from along the trail today stay overnight at Camp.
We are now almost near to the end of the trekking part. The walk today will take us to Dunai to stay overnight. It will take us about 7 hours to reach the destination. We can enjoy another day of walk in natural surroundings and local villages’ today stay overnight at Camp.
It is the final day of walk on the adventure. The walk that started in Dharapani is going to end in Juphal today after about 3 hours of walk. We enjoy the last day of the trek before reaching Juphal to spend an easy day at stay at Lodge / tea House.
We fly to Nepalgunj today for about 40 minutes and take a connecting flight back to Kathmandu for another one hour, receive at airport and transfer to Hotel Kathmandu.
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Mike Timo, USA
Another Wonderful Trek With Visit Himalaya Treks!!!
Just finished a very long (32 day) trek through Dhorpatan and Lower Dolpo. This was my fourth trek with Visit Himalaya Treks, and as with all of my previous treks, this one went perfectly.
The staff was absolutely excellent -- and the whole trek was wonderful. Himal was a pleasure to work with. I cannot recommend this company highly enough!! April -26 toMay 27 - 2022.
Manuela Mueller & Sabrina Wey, From - Switzerland
Jaljala Dhorpatan Trek with Visit Himalaya Treks.
A big"thank you" for the great trekking experience! All the way and time we felt really comfortable, from the first second until the end. And this belongs to the hearty care taking group. We had so much fun and a lot of laughs with you guys! Even in hard times and the bad case situation (like an evacuation handled without losing the mind but with calmness and clear actions) everything was very well organized: it couldn't have been any better in Switzerland! Knowledge, experience, organization and strength of purpose as well as precision, meet together with flexibility, spontaneity, humor and empathy as well as compassion, this is what I call a great performance! This is trekking with VISIT HIMALAYA TREKS Pvt. Ltd. All this mixed with respect, tolerance, an open mind and a deep cordiality is a performance on the highest level and what made this trip absolutely unique and unforgettable for us. Manuela Mueller, Freestyle Aerials, 7th in the winter Olympics 2006 in Torino, 3rd in world cup overall 2006/07.
We always try to be flexible to design the trip itinerary for our client’s needs. However, if you are not convinced as our suggested itinerary then off-course you are always welcome to customize or change the trip itinerary.
Holiday should never be about making it to the final point quickly. Along your trek, we can add days at your request with additional costs to cover guides, porters, accommodation, and food.
An average physical fitness should be maintained prior to booking a trek. Any sort of illness or recent medical problems should be mentioned while booking a trip. Most of our itineraries are prepared to give you maximum time to acclimatize and pace-setting on the treks would be done according to your convenience. If you are having regular medication then tell us before the trip started which would be better for us to give you the physical feedback.
Our main concern is your safety. We never compromised on your safety during the Trekking and all our guides are properly trained and well equipped to take care of our client's safety even in remote areas as well.
There would be always back support in case of an emergency situation like severe high-altitude sickness or accident (which is least expected), you will be sent to the nearest hospital, if possible, otherwise rescued by a helicopter and sent you to the hospital as soon as possible. Since you are entirely liable for all the expenses incurred for the use of such emergency services, please make sure that your travel insurance covers both- medical and emergency evacuation costs.
It is not a problem at all because in this trek we will supply most of the foods from nearest store and remaining foods we buy from Locals that mean most of the time we served vegetarian food as well and our camping cook and guide will take care as well.
We use standard quality of (Camping Gears) like Clients tents (3 men tents for couple and two men tent for single), dining tents, Shower Tent, Toilet Tent, staff tend thick mattress, etc. Also, we care for our staff and provide them with proper equipment for the camping trek. You will also be requested to have the proper gear for your personal use which will be suggested while confirming the trip.
While during the camping trek it is really difficult to find the place to charge gadget somehow we will manage to charge if we stay close by village otherwise we have to take the portable solar panel to carry with us and charge our gadgets.
Now a day’s most of the areas has been covered by cell phone network connection. However, in this trek, we always send satellite phones along with our guide so you can easily be in touch with your family.
This is a difficult thing to gauge. We have seen everything from USD 25 to USD 900 per person for guides and porters. Tipping is not required, but a small gesture of thanks to your guides and local porters. The level of the tip should reflect the level of satisfaction from and personal involvement with your guide. However, we recommend you to spend a minimum of 10% of your total trip cost for tipping the entire local staff.
