Nepal

Robert Ferguson first travelled to Nepal in 1984, aged 18, with a huge rucksack and tiny budget. He got a board-and-lodging job with a local trekking agency that finished with a trek around the Annapurna Circuit. He was hooked. He returned to Kathmandu in his early 20s as a mountain guide, leading groups around the Annapurnas, the Everest region and Kanchenjunga. Back in the UK he became operations manager for a leading UK trekking specialist to Nepal as well as starting his own tour operation in the Himalaya. The highlights of his many visits to Nepal over the years are his honeymoon, which involved driving from Lhasa to Kathmandu and a recent visit with his wife and two teenage daughters, trekking in the Annapurnas, rafting and tiger watching in the Terai.

1) Planning your trip
2) Kathmandu
3) Patan
4) Bhaktapur
5) Kathmandu Valley
6) Kathmandu to Pokhara
7) Pokhara and the Annapurnas
8) Chitwan and Central Terai
9) Everest and the Khumbu
10) Kanchenjunga and eastern Nepal
11) Rara and western Nepal
12) Background
13) Practicalities
14) Footnotes