Comments on: Nepal with Kids

By: Alyson for World Travel Family

Alyson for World Travel Family — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 23:35:51 +0000

In reply to Ranju. It is. My kids are very proud of themselves for making it to Everest Base Camp.

By: Ranju

Ranju — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 10:08:12 +0000

Awesome experience. Everest base camp trek is most famous.

By: Alyson Long

Alyson Long — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 09:52:02 +0000

In reply to Donna.

Our finding on the EBC is that “main” towns, the ones the tour groups use on fixed itineraries, get full, “minor” towns and villages, don’t. Guides and tour groups book places out, it’s quite irritating. So if you organise your trek so that you sleep in the places where the tour groups stop for lunch, or just walk on to the next village at the end of the day, you’re OK. We found that these quieter places had better prices with rooms sometimes still being free, plus bigger portions and better food. They were also more likely to let you charge your phone and so on without charging. It was very full on the EBC, peak time, guides and porters were sleeping in dining rooms but I never heard of anyone unable to find a room. Personally, I wouldn’t even consider taking a tent, but I haven’t done the Annapurna Circuit in a long time, maybe it’s gone nuts up there. I have a friend up there right now, I’ll see what she says.

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:05:17 +0000

Look forward to reading more of your blog, we are free range learners too in Australia, and enthusiastically learning Nepali for our Annapurna circuit trek in April next year 🙂 our kids 11 and 13 have done lots of extended trekking, but not much at alttude, although we did Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan earlier this year, kids had no probs. We plan to carry our own gear, mostly as we don’t have the budget for a guide/porter as we plan to do the whole circuit and have given ourselves 26 days to do it safely, a guide over that period would add up! We just don’t know whether to carry our tent though…some blogs say we won’t have a prob finding rooms even in April as there are so many, some say they’ve seen hikers piled in hallways, and teahouses auctioning rooms off! We think we should take our tent as like you I will just worry if we don’t, but would hate to carry the xtra 3kgs (it’s a 4 man hiking tent) for 26 days if we didn’t need it…what’ve you heard being there about availability in peak times?

By: Sonja

Sonja — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:02:41 +0000

In reply to Av. What a lovely post! I went on that trek with my parents and younger siblings when I Waac 20. My sister was 11 and my brother was 5. We all made it rob tengboche monastery but my brother developed altitude sickness after falling asleep during dinner. The Sherpas that we had took him straight down the mountains with my mother. I'm dying to go back and wondering whether I should take my kids 5 and 10...