Moderate5 days · 3,300 mEco-lodge route

Mohare Danda Community Trek

Five days on Nepal's flagship community eco-lodge trail — Poon Hill's panorama, none of Poon Hill's queue.

Mohare Danda Community Trek — drop a photo

Mohare Danda is the best-run community trek in the Annapurnas. Every lodge on the route is owned and staffed by the Magar villages it sits in, profits fund the local schools and health post, and the whole thing is lit by micro-hydro and solar. It climbs from Galeshwor on the Kali Gandaki through Bans Kharka and Nangi — a village famous for building its own computer network out of relay towers — to a ridge at 3,300 m that looks across at Dhaulagiri, Annapurna South and Nilgiri. The view is the equal of Poon Hill's and you will likely be one of six people watching it. Effort is real but never technical: steady hill days, good food, warm rooms.

Why you'll love it

Dhaulagiri, Nilgiri and Annapurna South from a 3,300 m ridge
Village-owned eco-lodges on micro-hydro and solar
Nangi village and its self-built wireless network
A Poon Hill panorama with a fraction of the foot traffic
Profits fund the local schools and health post — not an outside operator

Day by day

Three hours west by road along the Kali Gandaki to Galeshwor, then a warm climb up through the millet terraces to the first community lodge.

What's included

Licensed English-speaking local guide from Pokhara
ACAP & TIMS permits arranged for you
Community eco-lodge rooms + 3 meals a day on trail
Private transport Pokhara–Galeshwor & Nayapul–Pokhara
Porter (1 per 2 trekkers, 9 kg each)
First-aid kit, oximeter checks & a down jacket if you need one

Not included

Nepal visa & flights to Nepal
Travel insurance (required, incl. helicopter evacuation)
Drinks, snacks, wifi & hot showers on trail
Personal trekking gear (rentable from us)
Tips for guide & porter

Guides that cover this trip

Written by the people who run it — what the trail is like before you book.

Khopra Ridge beats Poon Hill at its own gameA 3,660 m ridge with Dhaulagiri directly across the valley, lodges owned by the villages themselves, and a fraction of the crowd.7 min read →Staying in someone's house: how homestays actually work hereSimpler than a lodge, warmer than a hotel, and the version of Nepal most visitors say afterwards they wish they had had more of.6 min read →The Machhapuchhre Model Trek — a trail the villages built themselvesFive days out of Ghachok on a community-run route through tea gardens and ridge villages, designed so the money stays where you walk.6 min read →Khayer Lake, sacred, high, and walked by almost nobodyEight days past Khopra Ridge to a glacial lake under the Annapurna south wall, where pilgrims come once a year and trekkers almost never.7 min read →

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Rs 64,200 per person

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