Nepal Trekking Guide Service

Our Guide are trained and Government License holder. All guides can speak fluent English or your native language and know about the trekking routes. They will assist you to get hotel rooms during tea houses and they will make camp if you are in camping trek, meals and any other issues that may occur (like the Altitude Police check points, Permit , Dangerous animals landsite road because ) they use to trekking many times.

Guides usually do not carry any of your things. A good guide can enrich your trekking and Tours experience in all trekking route. A part from showing you the trail, he explains you about the area, place, mountains, temples, culture, geography, local floras and faunas, teach you the Nepali language, introduce you to locals, share culture and festivals, run ahead and secure lodging in the busy season, help out with your backpack if you are struggling, and be helpful in a bad situation, look after logistics - like registering your details in every check post, organizing your transport whether go by bus or plane, liaising and directing the porter, etc. A guide able to get license through a month long training involve. It organizes by TAAN and Nepal Academy of Tourism and Hotel management (NATHAM) every year. During the training period instructs in a variety of subjects including first aid, altitude sickness and other important issues and must have a certain level of English fluency determined in an interview.

We match you up with a guide or porter for your own individual trek, as we understand that not everybody wants to join a package tour. By taking a registered guide with you, you can set your pace, stay where you want and at the same time reap the benefits of knowing you are trekking with an experienced, registered and accredited guide backed and supported by Welcome Nepal .

Nepal Trekking Porter Service

Porters on the other hand speak limited English and their job is to carry your load each day. They will carry up to 30 Kg but usually more like 20 Kg. They will sometimes help with route finding and may suggest good hotels. Hire a porter! The best means of helping a porter is to hire one. Hundreds of thousands of families in Nepal depends upon pottering as their main source of income.

A porter is hired not just for carry your bags; he will be paired affiliate of during the helpless condition. Trek alone can make a big difference on your journey. Just be sure to give him a reasonable load, usually a fully packed backpack. If you are with friends, try to group your stuff together in one big backpack and give that to a porter and then each carry a smaller daypack. A porter generally doesn't speak English but will follow a trail just not get lost. Sometimes you can find a porter-guide, which might be ideal if you are trekking alone or if you have only one other companion. This is usually a porter who has been on a number of treks, speaks some English, and aspires to graduate to the guide status. Nepal Mother House has Many Guides, Porters, and Guide-Porters and always happy to supply according to your requirements even though you are not buying full package trip.

Basically the cost of the trip depends on the season and trekking region length of trek and also the size of the group, so please contact us for further information for the hiring process and cost detail. The transportation charge for the guide or porters will have to be paid by the clients.

Price for hiring a guide, Guide/Porter and Porter in Following trekking area or region.

Annapurna Region, Langtang Region and Helambhu Region.

Guide: US$25.00 per day or Euro 16.00 per day
Guide/Porter: US$ 16.00 per day or Euro 12.00 per day
Porter: US$ 10.00 per day or Euro 6.50 per day.

Everest Region:

Guide: US$ 20.00 per day or Euro 12.00 per day
Guide/Porter: US$ 25.00 per day or Euro 15.00 per day
Porter: US$ 15.00 per day or Euro 10.00per day

Price will includes; Their salary, meals, accommodation, insurance and their equipments.

Note: (You will have to pay yourself food, accommodation, transportation for yourself, if necessary Domestic air ticket for yourself and Nepali staff, National park permit, when you are using this kind of service and will inform to you total cost in advance).

Tipping to trekking staff:

After working everybody expect some Tips and real evaluation .If you enjoyed your trip with our guide or porter, you should tips him at the end of your trek. The industry says $2 per person per day however we would recommend you give more if you can afford it. Generally 10% your Trips Price is sufficient. We foreigners are much more fortunate (at least financially) than most Nepalese and they will be overjoyed if you "make their day". Don't be chintzy, tip well, it will make you feel good and help someone in true need. And Tips is up to you and up to your desire we never force you, but we request you and please with you Because Guide and porter are doing very hard and difficult work in Himalaya and generally they don’t have other work so they need to alive a hole years working just 6 month as trekking helper. They don’t have work in full years and it is really difficult to live in Nepal due to price increasing in everything.