Nepal Tour Highlights

Trekking is the main reason most foreign visitors come to Nepal, and though you may need two or more weeks, and a sturdy pair of lungs, to reach Everest Base Camp, mountains only a notch lower may be viewed close-up on walks easily tacked on to our standard tour itineraries ...

Encompassing a wild tract of deciduous sal forest and terai grassland in southern Nepal, the Royal Chitwan National Park is a stronghold for two of the world’s rarest mammals: the one-horned rhinoceros,  and still more elusive Bengal tiger.

It may be a provincial backwater now, but this ancient town was once the seat of an all-conquering dynasty, the Magars, whose monuments still litter its hill-top old quarter.

Visit the exact spot in southern Nepal where Buddha was born – the spiritual fulcrum of an expanding religious complex attracting pilgrims from across the Buddhist world.

Some of Nepal’s finest Newari craftsmanship adorns the monuments of Bhaktapur’s old quarter, where a superb array of medieval buildings and traditional artisans’ workshops can be enjoyed, for once, in a delightfully traffic-free environment.

A spectacle as exotic as any you’re likely to set eyes on, Nepal’s largest stupa complex stands on the northeastern fringes of the capital, where Tibetan refugees have settled in large numbers.

A bewildering number of Hindu, Buddhist and royal monuments are ranged around the square at the centre of Patan, Nepal’s second city, in the southwest of the valley.

Climb the 365 steps leading to this spectacular gilded stupa – known locally as the ‘Monkey Temple’ for its resident population of apes – whose much-photographed eyes stare knowingly down on the Nepali capital.