Karnali province
Dolpo & the far west
Three weeks, three passes, and almost no one else.
Upper Dolpo is the most committing journey Aroha runs. There is no road, no reliable phone signal, no lodge network and no way to shorten the route once you are inside it. Everything is carried; every night is a camp.
What that buys is a landscape almost nowhere else in the Himalaya still offers — Bon monasteries older than Buddhism in Tibet, salt caravans on the trail, and Phoksundo, a lake so saturated in blue that people assume the photographs are edited.
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- 5,360 mHighest point we reach
- 5Prime months a year
Timing
When to come.
May to September — the reverse of the rest of Nepal. Dolpo sits behind the main range and stays dry through the monsoon.
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Signature experiences
What you came for.
- Shey Phoksundo Lake and the 167 m waterfall below it
- Shey Gompa, the Crystal Monastery, below Crystal Mountain
- Kang La, Saldang La and Jeng La — three passes above 5,000 m
- Bon villages where the practice pre-dates Buddhism
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Ways to walk it.
Every departure in Dolpo, from the shortest to the most committing.
Upper Dolpo, beyond the passes
22 days · Max 8 travellers · May–Sep
Twenty-two days across the highest inhabited valleys in Nepal, camping the whole way, in the one region that stays dry through the monsoon.
Local knowledge
Who leads here.
Elsewhere in Nepal
Other regions.
Everest & Khumbu
The valley that made trekking famous, walked at a kinder pace.
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Annapurna
Rice terraces to high desert in a single walking week.
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Mustang
Tibet's weather, Tibet's architecture, Nepal's side of the border.
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Langtang & Tamang country
The closest big mountains to Kathmandu, and a valley rebuilt by hand.
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Private departures
Dolpo, on your dates.
Every journey on this page can run privately, at your pace, for your group. Same guides, same lodges, your calendar.