Indigenous Trek

Indigenous trek is popular for exploring the varied wonderful culture, rituals, and lifestyles of Indigenous peoples, and equally popular trip for home stay where you will relax in a peaceful and calm Sailung valley and participate in fishing, boating, rafting, etc.--the local and one of the adventurous sports. [Indigenous Trek]

Indigenous trek also known as Indigenous Peoples trails or IPs trails is located to the eastern part of Nepal, in Ramechhap district. The trek revolves around the Sailung valley, which is nestled by Thulo Sailung peak (3,100 m) to the north, the Sun Koshi River flowing to the south and the Tama Koshi to the east. This trekking trail has been developed as home stay trip in the eastern Nepal. The trail is popular in the sense that you will be able to explore the distinct culture, rituals, language, and lifestyles. Furthermore, you will be fascinated with the scenic views of the mountains namely of Sailung peak, which is situated right a head of you, while you are amazed with the breathtaking mountain vistas stretching from Numbur chuli and Mt. Kanchenjunga in the east to the Mt. Dhaulagiri and Mt. Annapurna in the west.

You will be able to explore the fascinating settlements of various indigenous communities, namely Tamang, Newar, Sunuwar, Sherpa, Thami, Yolmo, Majhi, also explore the Buddhist monastery, mani and temple, so as enjoy with local dishes and delicacies, relax in the peaceful and calm valley and discover the wonderful and virgin traditional practices of diverse indigenous communities living in the areas, by joining in the folk dances and local music performance by the locals. The diverse indigenous communities welcome you in such a way, wearing such an attire and perform such a pleasant local and unique performance and offer you such a yammy delicacies and you will have wonderful time in a peaceful and calm, these all fascinate you in such a way that you feel home away from home and would like to come again again. In addition, you also can go for bird watching trips in the steamy jungle nearby the valley or extend your trip with rafting trip either in Sun Koshi or Tama Koshi River and also organize biking, fishing, boating and many other adventure trips. These features are self-explanatory that why indigenous trekking is one of the popular trekking trips in Nepal.

Indigenous trek begins with one day drive from Kathmandu to Dhunge, in Dolakha district and then start trekking to Khola Kharka (3,146 m), where you will enjoy with panoramic view and landscapes of Sailung region and then continue trekking to Sailung valley, where you will stroll around Buddhist Monastery, explore the Sherpa culture, walking through steamy jungle, you will continue trekking to Surkey, where you will explore the Thami indigenous peoples culture. Subsequently, you trek to Doromba, where you will enjoy exploring Tamang indigenous peoples' culture and rituals, stroll around Kandadevi temple, Hiledevi Mandir and then trek to Lubughat, where you will spend time with Majhi indigenous communities, whose traditional profession is fishing and boating. You also will participate in fishing and boating and then finally you will catch a public bus and drive back to Kathmandu.