Community Eco-lodge treks
Community Eco-lodge treks takes you into much closer contact with the spectacular Himalayas, visiting more local communities, hence spreading the support to more villages.
Its not that tourism has not flourished in the country but the benefit has reached to only few areas and largely centralized by certain individuals totally ignoring the much needed and indispensable community building and conservation aspects.
The Annapurna Dhaulagiri Community Eco-lodges Treks (ADCELT) are established along the settlements of culturally rich Magar community, entirely off the beaten path in wilderness to the breathtaking hills of Mohare and Khopra. The amazing sights from these hills are beyond the word can describe! The superb views of Dhaulagiri, Annapurna massive, Manaslu, Machhapuchhare (Fishtail), Himal Chuli and Jugal range dominates the northern horizon from west to east. Besides this, the pristine and wonderful forest of Chilaune, Pines, Fir, Castanopsis, Quercus and Rhododendrons bestow a great scene and serenity of mind being in the real nature. The sound and song of beautiful mountain birds such as Grosbeak, Yuhina, Tits, Magpies, Pheasants area soothing and lively. At the same time an anticipation of encountering the wildlife such as Deer, Himalayan Bears, Monkey and Leopard makes the trail very exciting and intriguing.
Objective
Being a responsible adventure travel company, we at Nature-treks.com Himalaya (NTH) comprehend that, “ecotourism” is all about communities, conservation, environment, education and sustainable travel”. Hence, our sincere objectives are: to support the community owned Eco-lodge along the designated areas, help building environmental and cultural awareness to provide positive experiences for both tourists and locals, provide the real economical benefits to the local communities and help nature conservation, minimizing the impact on the natural areas, to help and support keeping the environments and culture intact as much as possible and to create more employment opportunities in local level…
Our mission
We are committed to run this kind of adventure treks to support the communities, playing a sincere role for their sustainability, without compromising the service and the harming environment. At the same time we work in educating the visitors and locals about the importance of fragile environment, culture and nature, so that these can be enjoyed by future generations.
Vision
To make and see the communities a self sustainable, empowered, educated and benefiting well from the tourism activities without impacting the culture, nature and environments negatively.
Trip highs
• View of about 30 different mountains including three over 8000 meters (Dhaulagiri I, Annapurna I and Manaslu)
• Off the beaten trekking trails
• Magar culture (way of life and tradition)
• Orange farm at Bas Kharka, organic farming and Nepali paper making at Nangi
• Community schools
• Natural and pristine forest
• Rich bird life
• Wireless internet service along the trail
