Overview

Trek with Siddhartha Trekking to the famous Annapurna Base Camp at the heart of the Annapurna massif and experience nature at its most impressive. This journey leads you to the Annapurna Base Camp where mountaineering history was significantly influenced several times. But unlike the successful French climbing party in 1950. You won’t need weeks to discover the best approach to the mountain. Our experienced guide will be in charge of navigation, you can enjoy the surroundings.

The approach to base camp leads you through the Annapurna Sanctuary where you can experience spectacular vistas of the major peaks comprising the western part of the Annapurna range. Those include Hiunchuli, Annapurna I, Ganagapurna, Annapurna III, Annapurna South and Machhapuchhare. These mountains form almost precisely a circle with a deep glacier-covered amphitheatre at the centre. From this glacier, the Modi Kholasneaks its way south through a narrow gorge which grows wider further south and opens up into a fertile valley, the domain of the Gurungs, an indigenous community of Nepal.

The Annapurna Base Camp Trek leads you through numerous picturesque villages and gives you a first-hand experience of the vast cultural variety in this area. But the ultimate reward of this trek is the panorama in the very middle of the Sanctuary – surrounded by towering snowy, glaciered mountains ranging between 6000 and 8000m.And as if that wasn’t enough, the sunrises and sunsets form a particular highlight with the sunlight magically ‘dancing’ on the peaks.

The maximum altitude reached on this trek is 4,090m. The Annapurna Sanctuary trail is steep in places and is thus at least a moderately challenging teahouse treks. But if you allow for enough time to ascend at your own pace, the trek is suitable for all trekkers of reasonable fitness. A minimum of 10 days excluding Kathmandu and Pokhara valley should be allowed to complete this trek with extra days (recommended) for exploring the Base Camps and or alternative routes down, for example via Ghorepani, Poonhill and the Hot Springs of Tatopani in Myagdi district (a great reward after a challenging trek). As with all Snowy Horizon treks, it can be flexibly adjusted to your requirements – feel free to contact us any time for suggestions and advice.