Trekking ways in the Annapurna area

Annapurna offers an innumerable set of trekking routes from few days until to several weeks. But there are some classical routes which are worth to do.

I. The classical Annapurna (Annapurna Circuit, Around Annapurna) with the following stages:

1. Day Besisahar Ngadi
2. Day Ngadi Ghermu
3. Day Ghermu Chamje
4. Day Chamje Bagarchap
5. Day Bagarchap Chame
6. Day Chame Lower Pisang
7. Day Lower Pisang Braga
8. Day Braga Manang
9. Day Manang Gunsang
10. Day Gunsang Thorung Phedi
11. Day Thorung Phedi Thorung La-Muktinath
12. Day Muktinath Kagbeni
13. Day Kagbeni Marpha
14. Day Marpha Lete
15. Day Lete Tatopani
16. Day Tatopani Ghorepani
17. Day Ghorepani Poon Hill Ulleri
18. Day Ulleri Naya Pul

II. The trekking to the Annapurna base camp (ABC Annapurna Basecamp Trek). Here there are some different possibilities. Classically one starts in the small place Dampus, and returns then to the end point of the Annapurna circuit Naya Pul.

1. Day Dhampus Landrung
2. Day Landrung Chomrong
3. Day Chomrong Dhovan
4. Day Dhovan Deurali
5. Day Deurali Machapuchare basis camp
6. Day Machapuchare Basislager Annapurna basis camp
7. Day Annapurna Basislager Chomrong
8. Day Chomrong Ghandrung
9. Day Ghandrung Naya Pul

III. Very beautiful area, particularly in the spring during the rhododendron flowering is the area around Poon Hill with the world-well-known lookout point on Dhaulagiri (8167m) and Annapurna South (7273m). Well known as Poon Hill Trek. Because of the growing transportation facilities you can combine in this area a lot of variations from a few days trek up to a two week walk. One posibility is to extend it with the Sanctuarity Muktinath or the Annapurna base camp. A majority of the way corresponds to the last section of the Annapurna circuit, so that a daily description is unnecessary.


The day descriptions with a general map for the Annapurna Circuit and the Annapurna base camp trekking can you download here as pdf brochure.