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The Explore Nepal Group

The Explore Nepal have established model "eco-hotels" like the Kantipur Temple House, Gorkha Hill resort, Koshi Tappu Wild life camp and the typical Nepali restaurant Bhojan Griha. Beside a sound environmental and social management, all our properties offer a very good comfort and quality of services.

Additionally, we also operate culture tours, trekking, rafting, canoeing, bird watching, well being activities and wild life Safaris in Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, and Darjeeling.

Here are just a small selection of the tours we offer. Visit our website for full details.

Chitwan\Koshi Tappu wildlife Camp -9 Days

An ultimate nature tour! Your trip cannot get more natural! A stay at Chitwan and Koshi Tappu. Up on an elephant back, or row in a canoe, or just take a gutsy walk in the wild jungle, you are bound to encounter the wild species at Chitwan. A more subtle part of nature, Koshi Tappu is all about gentle hikes with abundant birds accompanying, and a mild raft in the calm water of Koshi river. The final touches are the cultural visit to Kathmandu's heritage sites and Janakpur.

Temple River Jungle -11 Days

A short glimpse of the entire country and what it's all about! The trip includes culture and architecture of the major cities, white water rafting and a jungle safari.

Adventure in the Western Nepal -15 Days

The Western part of Nepal is more remote, rugged and wild where not many Westerners have ever explored and we think it is time for us to share this unique part of Nepal with you. This tour will offer you the taste of unspoils cultures and people as well as combining white water rafting on Bheri river and viewing several species of wildlife in the Royal Bardiya National Park which are not found in Chitwan National Park. A visit to Pokhara for the spectacular mountain view on the initial part of the tour is breathtaking.

Langtang Nature Trek -23 Days

Covering an are of 1710 sy.km and located direct north of Kathmandu valley is one of the most beautiful and easily assessible mountain national parks of Nepal. The high altitude Himalayan valley of Lantang, the Langtang Lirung peak, the famous pilgrimage of Gosainkunda are located within the park, animals most likely seen in the park include Musk Deer, Himalayan Black Bear, Common Leopard and occasionally the Red Panda and Snow Leopard. The park entrance Dhunche is linked by road from Trisuli 68 Km west of Kathmandu. This trek is most popular for birdwatchers and plant lovers.

EcoTourism Policies

The Explore Nepal has tried both with in its properties as well as outside in the Nepali society, to minimize its environmental, social and cultural impacts, and maximize its economical benefits to people and local communities.

From energy and water saving, waste management, to renovation of cultural assets, cleaning campaign, implementation of green purchasing policy, lobbying for better environmental law...Explore Nepal is very active. Despite, implementing sustainability criterias in our various operations, we, as a company, comply with the APEC/PATA Code for Sustainable Tourism and the International Porter Protection Group guidelines.

We also encourage our customers to follow several travellers's codes of conducts, such as the code of conduct for Rafting in Nepal's Rivers, the PATA Traveller's Code, the Himalayan code of conduct as well as the other guidelines issued by the Sustainable Tourism Network and the Kathmandu Environment Education Project concerning the visit of religious places, the trekking activities and other general tourists guidelines.

We have received several national and international awards for our
contribution to preserve culture heritage and environment, including the latest PATA Environmental Award 2004.

PATA Environmental Award 2004
Once again, The Explore Nepal Group has won the PATA Environmental Award 2004 for its environment education program. Indeed, we worked towards building awareness with in schools regarding urban environmental problems such as air pollution, water pollution, solid waste management and banning the use of plastic bags. In order to achieve goals of the programme and generate mass public awareness, during the implementation of programs, ENG has formed eco-clubs in more than twenty government, semi-government, public and private schools. Members of the school community run the eco-clubs and ENG has been providing continuous support from program evolution to execution.

Our social and environmental activities are quite vast and we invite you to take a look on our website for more information.

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