TREKKING THE ANNAPURNA CIRCUIT

TREKKING GUIDE

For many years the Annapurna circuit in Nepal was one of the most beautiful treks in the world. But in 2004 a general program was started in Nepal to connect all district headquarters by road. The headquarters in this area were Jomsom and Manang and so the construction of the road I Marsyangi and Kali Gandaki Valley was started. When the road to Jomsom was opened for traffic in 2008 many trekkers did not want any more to walk down from Muktinath and just took the jeep and bus missing the beautiful valley. It is then that ACAP started to find, plan and construct alternative trails which would avoid the road. The authors have walked extensively these Naturally Annapurna Trekking Trails (which the authors call NATT-trails) often together with ACAP guides and marked many of them with the NATT signs. In spring 2012 the visited again the Jomsom area an added some trail descriptions. As the road on the Manang side was opened in 2012 ( to Manang in 2013) they visited again the Manang trek in January 2013. Prem Rai visited and marked the Khopra Danda and Mardi Himal trek in spring 2013. In this book you will find a description of these trails helping you to trek beside and often far away from the road and again enjoy one of the finest trekking areas of Nepal and the world. The second edition was completely revised, many schematic little maps added and it contains now descriptions of the AC, ABC, Poon hill trek, Mardi Himal trek ABC and Khopra Danda trek. This book does not describe a single trekking route day by day, but the full grid of various trail. The different trails are numbered and you can easily combine your dream-trail from a few day to full 6 weeks.