Siraichuli hill trail

Chepang community visit
TripCode: CNA03
Duration: 11Days
Country: Nepal

The Chitwan Chepang Hill Trail, offers a rare combination of cultural and sightseeing experience. One of the most interesting aspects of the trek is getting a glimpse of the Chepang and other local communities who lives in the middle hill region of Nepal. Accepting the invitation of villagers to stay in their beautiful homes as guests and sharing their meals is a journey of discovery in itself. The unique culture in this area in addition to natural attraction add to the charm of experience the Chitwan Chepang Hill trail begins at Hugdi between Mugling and Krishnabhir in Dhading district about 80km from Kathmandu, and ends in Shaktikhor. If one starting from Chitwan national park the trail can also be started from Shaktikhor ending at Hugdi.

Trip Highlights

• Chepang Museum at Shaktikhor
• 5 days trek and 3 days jungle
• Local handicraft
• Sunrise view
• Birdwatching
• Ethnic Diversity
• Elephant safari tours

Trip itinerary

Day01: Kathmandu and hotel

Arrive Kathmandu and transfer to hotel. Evening briefing and welcome dinner

Day02: In Kathmandu and overnight hotel

Day in Kathmandu for heritage sightseeing and preparation and overnight hotel

Day03: To Hattibang

Drive to Hugdi and trek to Hattibang (4-5 hrs). Home stay/Community GH

Day04: To Jyandanda

Trek to Jyandanda, a pure Chepang village (3 hrs). Home stay and Camping

Day05: To Gadi

Trek to Gadi (4 hrs). Home stay or Camping

Day06: To Shaktikhor

Trek to Shaktikhor (3 hrs). Shaktikhor Home stay

Day07: Chitwan national park

Drive to Chitwan National Park and overnight Resort

Day08: Chitwan

Day at Chitwan for nature safari activities. Overnight resort

Day09: Kathmandu

Drive back to Kathmandu and transfer to hotel

Day10: Kathmandu

Leisure day in Kathmandu

Day11: Trip ends

Departure from Kathmandu or join other tours.

Tour extension

People with time are highly recommended to visit Chitwan, take Seti rafting or Kayaking or Canyoning, which is great adventure and fun. Nature-treks.com will be happy to assist you making all these further arrangements for you and friends.

Trip Cost:

US$ 1045 person
minimum 2 person based on twin sharing

Trip inclusion:

• All land transportations
• Accommodations
• Meals during the trek
• Cost of national park fees
• Our regular professional staffs and local staff from the villages
• Chitwan safari on full board
• Staff insurance
• Staffs’ food, accommodations and wages.

Accommodations

Most of night during the trek, Home and teahouse are used and camping also can be arranged, which is very basic and simple. The accommodation in Chitwan will be in the standard tourist Resort

Food and water

Wholesome and organic locally produced agricultural items are available along the Chepang Hills Trail. The water available should be treated with Lugol’s solution or other water purification tablets before use. The bottled water also can be bought at some places but we discourage this practice as it can only burden the environments

Level of grade

This trip is classified as an introductory adventure. The walking or hiking can be easy to moderately strenuous and involves 4-5 hours of walking in average though the steep walking terrain. The altitude gain is only 2000-2500m.

Safety

Safety during the trek is the key priority and comes enjoyment. Our staffs are well experienced in making sure to have very safe journey. In Chitwan there will be always an experience guide to take to the jungle for nature tours. Elephants are very sure-footed animal and are very safe to do the safari on their back.

Seasons

April-May and September-December but recommended seasons are April-May and September-December

Our Responsible approach

During our treks, we use the designated routes and campsite to avoid negative impact on our degrading environments. The local culture and tradition are respected. During these trips we use Home stay as much as possible to support the local economy. We do not use the firewood and use gasoline or gas for cooking and encourage the solar heating to avoid further deforestation. To avoid littering we educate and aware our clients, staffs and porters to use the right place to dispose the garbage and bring back the non-bio-degradable ones. We do not put the mobile toilet near the water and any other places that is culturally or locally important or sacred. We also try to use the service of local porters and guides if possible. We understand that the conservation is a big issue and should be supported in whatever way we can.

Take nothing but Photographs and Leave nothing but footprints!

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