It is best to carry sleeping bags to make you more comfortable, the guest-house and lodge do provide blankets, but better to use your own warm sleeping bag. Some local companies will provide you with the trip cost, or one can hire or rent in Kathmandu or at Pokhara trekking stores.

All seasons of the year except for rainy times of monsoon, the best is from March to May and September till November months. But one can trek in winter times of December to February also, it will be much colder than other season’s chances of snow sometimes, around higher altitude. Spring and autumn will be the best when days are mostly clear with enough sunshine, cooler morning and night time.

On reaching Pokhara from Kathmandu by air or overland, trekking and staying overnights around hill villages for 6 to 7 days and then back to Pokhara, before departing for Kathmandu.

A different time of environment than other normal trekking as you will be staying overnights in a Home Stay, managed by the village community. Where you will experience more Nepalese rural farm life and cultures of different ethnic tribes of hill people. Having typical local meals and a great time interacting with villagers.

Most large and moderate villages do have hydropower to run electricity, some rural areas have solar power, where trekkers can charge their electronic gadgets paying an extra fee for charging each item.

A simple hut like a cottage built with local materials that blend well with the surroundings. All accommodation of basic facilities but clean and nice rooms may have attached bath/toilets or using common bathe running hot and cold showers. Meals are simple and hygienic cooked in a local style very organic fresh from the local village vegetable garden. Meats as options are either mutton, chicken, or Buffalo meats.

Low areas are dominated by Hindu religion with few Buddhist followers, higher up from 1,600 m onwards populated by Buddhism religion of fascinating colorful culture of ancient heritage and traditions. Where every village has monasteries enriched with age-old treasures of ancient idols and colorful paintings.