Daily routine while trekking in Nepal

The life of a tourist on commercial trekking in Nepal is relatively easy and carefree - there is no need to collect firewood, cook food, pitch and assemble tents. At the same time, the trekking itself, i.e. walking along the trail rarely takes more than 6 hours a day, because due to the requirements of safe acclimatization we cannot gain too much altitude in one day. Tourists, accustomed to the busy schedule of ordinary mountain treks, are amazed - what do you do all day in this Nepal of yours? To lift the veil of secrecy, I will tell you about the daily routine on the Nepal trek. So, one average day from getting up to going out...

• 04:30 Photographers and other lovers of Himalayan sunrises wake up and run to the next hill. This is voluntary and not required.
• 06:00 Rise for the rest of the hikers. Those who wake up quickly head to the dining room to speed up the preparation of breakfast with their presence.
• 06:30 Breakfast. If the group goes with porters, then before breakfast it is advisable to give the porters packed trunks for carrying. Porters often start earlier than the group and go at their own pace until lunch. At altitudes above 3500 meters, at breakfast the instructor takes the first morning measurement of pulse and oxygen for all trekking participants. After that, we calculate the food costs at this shelter.
• 07:30 The instructor centrally pays for the group’s accommodation and meals and hands over the keys to the rooms to the administrator of the guesthouse. Meanwhile, the participants take off their warm jackets and warm up before the start.
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• 08:00 We turn on the radios and set out on the route. While it is still cool, we are going relatively dressed.
• 09:00 Every hour we take a 10-minute break (often near the lodge) - drink tea, stretch our shoulders, change clothes.
• 12:30 Hot lunch at one of the lodges encountered along the way. To speed up the cooking process, we try to order the same dishes as a group. Usually these are two types of soup (to choose from) and unleavened flatbreads. We will eat all sorts of complex dishes that require a long preparation time for dinner. The lunch break takes at least an hour and a half, so you need to dress warmly and take off your shoes IMMEDIATELY to give your feet a rest.
• 13:30 End of lunch break. We continue moving.
• 14:30 Clouds are falling on the mountains. It gets cold instantly.
• 17:00 We arrive at our overnight stay. The instructor distributes the keys to the rooms and sets a general meeting time (dinner time). Tourists unpack the trunks brought by the Sherpas and check into their rooms.
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• 17:15 Free time. Participants line up for the shower, and the instructor collects orders for tonight's dinner from the group. If possible, we go to a small evening radial - we climb a nearby hill with prayer flags or simply stomp along the path to gain and then lose 100 meters in altitude. This is necessary for better acclimatization. For the same reason, you should not sleep until dinner.
• 18:30 Dinner. Food is served to the whole group at the same time - don't be late and don't forget what you ordered. After dinner, the instructor takes orders for breakfast, sets a breakfast time, and explains plans for the next day of trekking. In parallel with this, the evening measurement of pulse and oxygen occurs.
• 19:00 Free time. We sit in the dining room (it’s warmer there), chat, play board games, wait for a miracle to happen and someone to play the guitar:)
• 20:00 The porters are starting to settle down for the night in the dining room, so it’s time for us to go to our rooms too. Lights out. Before lights out, the instructor reminds participants of their room number so that they know where to look if they feel unwell during the night. Mineral pain always worsens at night, so it makes sense to take diacarb at night.
• 01:30 Diuretic diacarb or bizarre high-altitude insomnia wakes up half the lodge's residents. The shelter becomes noisy for a short time - someone is running along the corridor to the toilet, someone is looking for a flashlight to drink tea from a thermos. Soon everything becomes quiet again.

It should be noted that a similar daily routine, quite relaxed in my opinion, is typical for the first stage of trekking, when there is an ascent to altitude and acclimatization to it. We walk only 10-12 kilometers per day and spend at most 6 hours on it. But on the way back, on the descent from the mountains, we gain momentum and the daily routine becomes more intense. The daily mileage can reach 25 kilometers (and the walking time is correspondingly 10 hours) - with light backpacks this is not as difficult as it seems. This pattern of movement (up - slowly, down - very quickly) is most typical for the trek to Everest Base Camp. There we go up for more than a week, and slide back down in just 3 days. We need every day won in this way in case of bad weather and the impossibility of flying out of Lukla on time. On the descent from Annapurna Base Camp we used to run long and hard, but now, thanks to the jeeps, we have the opportunity to relax.