Travel InfoWhere in Nepal are the best places to visit?
If you've got two weeks and want the classic Nepal experience, the answer is almost formulaic: Kathmandu Valley for two or three days to get oriented and see the Durbar Squares, then Pokhara to shift gears entirely lakeside, mountain-backed, half the pace of the capital before committing to a trek. From there it splits. Annapurna Base Camp rewards you with the most varied scenery per day of walking anywhere in the Himalayas subtropical forest to high alpine in under a week. Everest Base Camp is the harder, slower, more singular experience you're not trekking to scenery, you're trekking into Sherpa culture and altitude, and it demands real respect for acclimatization. I've turned back more strong hikers for ignoring rest days at Namche and Dingboche than for any other reason.
