How I work
How I treat the people and places we pass
The trails are people's home before they are our holiday. These are the simple rules I keep, and what I ask of you, so a walk leaves the valleys a little better and never worse.
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- Nov 2026
- Written by
- Rujan Neupane, trained guide
Chandra Chakradhar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe money stays local
- We sleep and eat in family lodges, and you pay them yourself, at their own price: no commission for me, ever.
- Permits and local fees are paid as they are; they keep the trails and the parks.
- If a porter joins us, they are paid a fair daily wage, insured, given warm clothes and a bed, and carry no more than 20 kg.
- I walk with 1 to 5 people: small groups need no big camps and fill no lodge.
Leave no trace
- No plastic bottles: bring a bottle and purifying tablets or a filter; lodges sell boiled water.
- What we carry in, we carry out, batteries and wrappers too.
- Hot showers and wood fires are scarce up high; one warm shower is plenty.
- We stay on the trail, and leave flowers, stones and prayer flags where they are.
Respect in villages and monasteries
- Walk clockwise around stupas, prayer walls and prayer wheels.
- Ask before you photograph a person; a smile and a gesture are enough. Children are not photographed for money or sweets.
- Shoulders and knees covered in villages and holy places; shoes off where others take theirs off.
- Give to the school or the health post, not to children on the trail.
Not sure which trek suits you? Tell me your dates and what you hope for, and I will say honestly.
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