Friends, fun and _______. Add in a bit of adventure and you have the perfect recipe for a fabulous trek! The best part is that a trek can be done by a person who wants to do a slow and leisurely activity as well as someone who is keen to test out their recently developed fitness gains and skills.

Trekking is growing in popularity every year as accessibility to base villages have improved. The green mountains, exhilarating waterfalls, fresh and gurgling streams and a chance to spend time outdoors is a call that is difficult to resist. An overnight trek can involve pitching a tent, cooking on an open fire and survival with scarce food available. There is no feeling like being on a mountaintop with nature and some friends for company. A chance to show off your survival skills is an added bonus.

My fondest memory is of my first trek to a fort with five buddies when I was just 14. On the way, we saw wildlife, butterflies, birds and flowers that we had never seen in the city. The soothing sound of gurgling streams and waterfalls and the stunning views were fantastic. We felt a tremendous sense of achievement once we reached the top. Some of us built a campfire while the others pitched two tents. We cooked our meal of khichdi on an open fire, sang songs, cracked jokes and had fun telling stories late into the night.

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Nepal, lying along the southern slopes of the Himalayan Mountain ranges, is a landlocked country located between India to the east, south and west, and Tibet in the north. Its territory extends roughly 500 miles from east to west and 90 to 150 miles from north to south. Nepal’s capital is Kathmandu.

Nepal has some of the most rugged and difficult mountain terrain in the world. Roughly 75 per cent of the country is covered by mountains. From the south to the north, Nepal can be divided into four main physical belts, each of which extends east to west across the country. These are, first, the Tarai, a low, flat, fertile land adjacent to the border of India; second, the forested Churia foothills and the Inner Tarai zone, rising from the Tarai plain to the rugged Mahābhārat Range; third, the mid-mountain region between the Mahābhārat Range and the Great Himalayas; and, fourth, the Great Himalaya Range, rising to more than 29,000 feet.

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Ask any die-hard trekker and he will definitely say: ‘yes, it is.’ Trekking is not just an activity — the activity of walking long distances on foot for pleasure. For some it’s an activity they cherish the most. I have many friends who keep going on treks and it is their most passionate pastime.

All these friends like to pursue outdoor hobbies, and trekking is at the top of their bucket list. For them, to go on a long arduous journey on foot, is heavenly. They love long, vigorous hikes in a wild natural environment for multiple days at a stretch.

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