The Millennium Trek
Seven days through the Annapurna mid-hills, sleeping in Gurung and Magar family homes and walking terraces that have been farmed for a thousand years.
- 7 days / 6 nights
- Moderate
From$1,145 per person
First you come for the Mountains
& Stay for the People
Small groups walking Nepal's mid-hills, sleeping in family homes, led by guides who grew up on the trail. Most of what you pay stays in the valley you walk through.
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Machapuchare at first light, seen across Phewa lake at Pokhara
- Registered trekking operator, Government of Nepal
- Locally owned and run since 2013
- 100% Nepali guides and porters
- Funds the Sharing Seeds project
Why you should choose us for your Trip to Nepal
Twelve years running our own trips out of Pokhara, with our own guides, in villages we know by name. This is what that actually changes.
Locally owned
Registered in Pokhara and run from Pokhara since 2013. There is no head office in another country taking a cut.
A small tour operator
Four to twelve people on a trip, and the person who answers your email is the person who plans it.
Social impact trips
Every booking funds Sharing Seeds, our own project on the Sarangkot ridge — a budget line, not a donation box.
Promoting community homestays
You sleep in family homes, on routes agreed with the village, at a nightly rate the village set.
Our Popular Trips to Nepal
Every trip below is run by EEM directly — nothing is resold, nothing is subcontracted to an agency in Kathmandu.
Secrets of Sarangkot
Three days above Pokhara on a working coffee smallholding — picking, pulping, roasting and drinking it, with the Annapurnas across the valley the whole time.
- 3 days / 2 nights
- Easy
From$385 per person
Langtang Valley Community Trek
Nine days in the valley that rebuilt itself after 2015, walking to Kyanjin Gompa with the Tamang families who did the rebuilding.
- 9 days / 8 nights
- Challenging
From$1,490 per person
Kathmandu Valley Heritage & Craft
Four days in the valley’s three old cities, in the workshops of the woodcarvers, potters and metalworkers still making the things the temples are made of.
- 4 days / 3 nights
- Easy
From$620 per person
Annapurna Base Camp — the Slow Route
Twelve days to the sanctuary and back, taking the days most itineraries cut, so you arrive at 4,130 m able to enjoy it.
- 12 days / 11 nights
- Challenging
From$1,890 per person
Everest Panorama Homestay Trek
Ten days in the Khumbu without the base-camp queue — Sherpa homestays, Tengboche monastery, and Everest from the ridge at Kongde.
- 10 days / 9 nights
- Moderate
From$2,150 per person
None of these quite fit?
Most of our trips begin as an email about dates, fitness and how far you want to be from a road. Tell us that much and we will build the rest around it.
Start a conversationSharing Seeds
How We Support Local Community
Our own social impact project, and the reason a booking here buys more than a walk. Four kinds of work on one hillside of the Sarangkot ridge, funded from what we sell rather than from donations.
- Pandeli, above Pokhara
- Partnered since 2020
- Non-profit social enterprise
30%more than other collectors pay the farmers on this ridge for their coffee cherries
Work worth staying home for.
Organic Arabica coffee
Grown on the terraces by small farmers, bought from them direct, with training so the crop keeps going.
Organic bee farming
Hives kept by village households alongside the coffee, on the same organic terms.
A women's co-operative
Local women make home textiles, lead the village meals that visitors eat, and handle the money.
Vegetables and medicinal plants
Organic kitchen growing across the village, on the same land as the coffee.
How your travel impact to the Local communities?
The walking is the easy part to arrange. What takes twelve years to build is a list of families who will feed you like one of their own, and a price agreed with each village rather than offered to it.
You sleep in homes
Not chain hotels. Families host you, cook for you, and are paid a nightly rate agreed with the village — never a per-head commission.
The money stays put
The majority of what you pay lands in the valley you walk through, rather than in an office in Kathmandu.
Small on purpose
Four to twelve people. Big enough for a good evening, small enough to fit in a village kitchen.
Nothing left behind
Filtered water rather than bottled, overland rather than internal flights where it makes sense, and no single-use plastic on the trail.
Sustainable tourism works with the mutual cooperation of Host communities and the Responsible Travellers
We do not run trips through communities. We run them with communities — agreeing routes, capacity and pricing with the people who live there, and publishing what we pay them.
If a village asks us to stop for a season, we stop.
Our Partners
Licensing bodies, standards groups and the co-operatives we buy from. Every one of them can be checked.
Our own project
Sharing Seeds
Our own social impact project: seed banks, kitchen gardens and school programmes in the villages our routes pass through, funded directly from bookings.
Trekking Agencies’ Association of Nepal
Industry body setting operating and safety standards for licensed trekking operators.
Nepal Tourism Board
The national tourism authority, which licenses and registers operators.
Kathmandu Environmental Education Project
Environmental education and responsible-trekking briefings for visitors and guides.
International Porter Protection Group
Standards for porter pay, load limits, insurance, clothing and shelter.
Sarangkot Coffee Co-operative
Eleven member households growing, processing and roasting coffee above Pokhara.
What Other People say about Us?
Straight from TripAdvisor. We do not choose which ones appear.
We have trekked in Nepal twice before and never once eaten in someone’s kitchen. This time we did it every night. The walking was lovely; the evenings were the trip.
Our guide turned us around a day early because of the weather and was completely unapologetic about it. On the way down we understood why. That judgement is what you are paying for.
I went on my own and was slightly dreading the group. Six people, one of whom was seventy-one and faster than me. I would book again tomorrow.
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TripAdvisorBefore you write to us
The six things people ask most. If yours is not here, it is exactly what the form below is for.
Still wondering?
Write to us, or message us on WhatsApp — a person answers, usually the same day.
Do I need trekking experience?
For the mid-hill routes, no. If you can walk comfortably for five hours on consecutive days you will be fine. Your guide sets the pace for the slowest walker in the group rather than the fastest, and there is no prize for arriving first. On the higher routes we will tell you honestly whether the one you have picked is the right first trip.
When is the best time to walk?
October and November are the clearest months. March and April are warmer, with the rhododendron in flower. The monsoon runs June to September — the hills are green and empty, but the mountains come and go behind cloud. December to February is fine in the mid-hills and genuinely cold higher up. Tell us when you can travel and we will tell you what you will actually see.
What is a homestay actually like?
A room in a family's own house — private or shared, depending on the village — and meals cooked and eaten with your hosts. It is not a hotel, and the honest version is that hot water and mains power are not guaranteed in every village. It is also the part travellers write to us about afterwards.
Is the water safe to drink?
Yes. Every trip carries filtration, so you refill from a communal source instead of buying bottled water. We do not sell single-use plastic on any route.
Do I need a visa?
Most nationalities can get a Nepal tourist visa on arrival, at Kathmandu airport or at a land border. Bring a passport with at least six months left on it. Check your own country's status with Nepal's Department of Immigration before you fly, because the list does change — and tell us if anything looks complicated, because we have done this before.
What happens after I send an enquiry?
A person reads it — usually the same day, and within one working day at the latest. You get back a real itinerary and a real price for the dates you gave us, not a brochure. Nothing is held and nothing is paid until you have both in front of you.
Tell us roughly what you are after
Dates, group size, and how far you want to be from a road. We reply with a real itinerary and a real price, usually within one working day.
Nepal runs on GMT+5:45 — the extra 45 minutes is real.
- Emailinfo@eemtravels.com
- WhatsApp+9779856012345
- Phone+977 61 456 789
- OfficeLakeside Marg, Pokhara 33700, Nepal
Sunday to Friday, 9am–6pm Nepal Standard Time
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Dispatches from the trail
New itineraries, quiet-season prices and the occasional photo essay. About once a month, never more.