Annapurna Sanctuary Traveller Reviews

I trekked to Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal, it was a circular route that followed traditional paths and tea house stays overnight.

The tour operator provided a very comprehensive schedule of the trek, with day to day information on the number of hours we would be trekking, the type of landscapes that we would be travelling through, description of the features we would find in the tea houses each night,etc.

Great experience. Everything about the holiday was good. Great support team for transfers to and from airports, excellent guides on the trek. Itinerary was different to other tour operators going anticlockwise instead of clockwise on the trek - best way round in my opinion.

Responsive, knowledgeable, tailored my trip for me, allowing me to add days before and after the trek. Although I did not use them, they also offered me extension packages to help me use my extra days efficiently.

All the travel arrangements worked smoothly. We had an excellent guide, and thoroughly enjoyed the 12 day trek, through varied scenery up to the Annapurna Base Camp and back down again. We enjoyed passing through Nepalese villages, with water buffalo grazing and crops spread out to dry, and meeting other trekkers in the teahouses.

Mountain Kingdoms provided detailed and helpful information. Their arrangements with the in-country agents were flawless. (Mountain Kingdoms were also very helpful when we originally tried to do this holiday in March 2020 and I was briefly stuck in Delhi.)

The holiday was well organised and the team in Nepal can't have been more helpful.

Mountain Kingdoms specialises in organising trekking holidays. This holiday was trekking to Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal.

We opted for a private journey to Annapurna Base Camp (ABC) starting a few weeks after the end of the main trekking season. The paths were therefore much less busy than in peak season; the trek to ABC may be the most popular trek in Nepal due to its accessibility and the stunning closeness of the high mountains when within the beautiful Annapurna Sanctuary. The lodges and tea houses were also generally fairly quiet, making it a relaxing and peaceful holiday. The weather was good throughout, sunny for most of most days. We were walking in thin walking shirts from late morning onwards at lower altitudes and thermal underwear higher up. Evenings and nights were cold at this time of year but with the kit we had taken with us supplemented by that provided by the local agent, we never felt overly cold. Our guide and two porters did everything for us that we could have wished for.

Mountain Kingdoms were easy to deal with when booking. They used high quality local agents and are clearly respected by the local agents as being good to deal with; this is always encouraging to know. The kit provided was exceptionally good (sleeping bags and inners, soft pillows, down jacket and hot water bottles each evening). The itinerary was excellent; we took a day longer to get to Base Camp then several other parties we encountered but preferred the less hectic pace and better opportunities to appreciative the closeness of the mountains by having more time available to us.