Langtang & community trails
Dawa Tamang
Rebuilt a homestay network after 2015, and now trains the households that run it.
- Based in
- Briddim, Rasuwa
- Years guiding
- 9
- Certification
- NMA trekking guide · Community homestay trainer · Wilderness first aid
- Languages
- Nepali, Tamang, English
Dawa was working in Kathmandu when the 2015 earthquake took the valley he grew up in. He went home, and the Tamang Heritage Trail as it exists today is largely the result of what he and a handful of others did over the following four years.
The homestays on that route are not franchised. Each one is a household that Dawa trained in food safety, bedding standards and pricing, and each one is paid directly by Aroha at the end of the trip rather than through an intermediary.
He is also the calmest person on any trail. Ask him about the valley and he will tell you the whole story, including the difficult parts.
Every bed you sleep in on this trail belongs to the family that made it. That is the entire design.
Dawa Tamang
- 23Homestays trained
- 70+Kyanjin Ri ascents
- 62%Share of trip fee paid locally
Guide profiles are fictional. The photographs beside them show the terrain each guide works in — they do not depict the people described.
2 journeys
Trips Dawa leads.
Book any of these and this is who meets you at the airport.
Langtang Valley & Kyanjin Ri
8 days · Max 10 travellers · Mar–May · Oct–Dec
Eight days from Kathmandu to a glaciated basin below a 7,227 m peak, on a trail rebuilt by the families who live on it.
Tamang Heritage Trail
7 days · Max 10 travellers · Mar–May · Sep–Dec
A week of homestays through Tamang villages in Rasuwa, on a trail the households themselves built back after 2015.
The rest of the team
Other guides.
Private departures
Travel with Dawa.
Name a guide when you enquire about a private trip and we will build the dates around their calendar wherever we can.