10 Things to Do in Nepal

SRISTI
Updated on December 19, 2024
10 Things to Do in Nepal

Nepal is a paradise destination for travel lovers and adventure seekers across the world. The country offers natural beauties, high mountains, diverse culture, festivals, and traditions, along with beautiful landscapes and warm hospitality.

The last two years were completely and partially disturbed by the COVID-19 pandemic and most of the travel and tourism activities were stopped. Now, tourism activities in most countries are resuming slowly and people are starting to explore the different destinations of their choice.

Many travel enthusiasts and adventure seekers are waiting to explore Nepal. But at the same time, you must know what to explore and what to do in Nepal after the pandemic. Here, we write about the most popular things to do in Nepal in 2025-2026. 

1. Trekking in Nepal 

Nepal is a prime destination for trekking in the world. The country is full of high mountains and snowy peaks in the northern part of the country. Nepal offers short and long treks along with the easy, moderate, and difficult levels of trekking trails. The high-altitude trekking in the annapurna region, and the everest region is widely popular in the form of adventure in the world.

Trekking in Nepal

These treks offer exciting views of the world’s highest peaks, stunning landscapes, exotic biodiversity, and rich culture and traditions. Most of the trekking routes in Nepal offer a beautiful view of forests, rivers, waterfalls, ethnic villages, and diverse cultures across the country.

Undoubtedly, trekking in Nepal is one of the most done things in Nepal in 2025-2026. There are hundreds of popular treks in Nepal, such as the everest base camp trek, the annapurna base camp trek, the mardi himal trek, the langtang valley trek, and the manaslu circuit trek.

2. Tours in Nepal 

After trekking in Nepal, a short hike and tour in the beautiful cities and villages are other popular activities you can do in Nepal. Nepal offers a wide range of landscapes and different geography and is filled with natural beauties. If you have less time to explore Nepal and if you are looking for luxury and easy travel in Nepal, then various tour packages would be the best option for you.

Tours in nepal

A tour in Nepal includes a unesco world heritage site excursion, a short hike, city exploration, and experiencing the lavish services in the foothills of the high mountains of Nepal. Pokhara, Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, Chitwan, and Bandipur are the popular cities for tours in Nepal. 

3. Mountaineering in Nepal 

Nepal has eight out of fourteen eight thousand, and it’s the pioneer country for the mountaineering world, including the highest mountain on earth, Mt. Everest. Adventure lovers around the globe visit nepal to conquer the highest peaks in the world.

The mountaineering journey normally starts with high-altitude trekking, then peak climbing like island peak climbing, Lobuche Peak climbing, and Mera Peak climbing, and you can go for the mountaineering of the highest mountains. Besides these eight thousand, 330+ other mountains are allowed to climb commercially across the country.

Climbing mountain

The must do things in Nepal is full of thrills, adventures, and challenges you want in your life and they will teach you how to survive in extreme conditions. The prime season to climb most of the highest mountains in Nepal is the spring season (March to May) and the autumn season (September to December). 

4. Helicopter Tour & Mountain Flight in Nepal 

Climbing mountains, trekking in high altitudes, and seeking harsh adventure may not be everyone’s cup of tea. But, you still can wish to explore the mountain atmosphere, its beauty, and spectacular views through a helicopter ride or mountain flight.

It’s the most expensive tour in Nepal, but worth it for the people who are looking for it. Mountain flights and helicopter tours in Nepal are probably some of the privileged adventures to do with your loved one and family.

Helicopter tour

Only birds have the privilege to experience the aerial views of snow-capped mountains, valleys, glaciers, rivers, lakes, and beautiful nature that is beyond imagination. You can go for the annapurna heli tour, gosaikunda lake heli tour, and muktinath heli tour.

If you don’t have much time and patience to see the mountains from the closest point, the helicopter tour in Nepal package is the best option for you to do in 2025-2026. You can experience the true beauty of the Himalayas right in front of your eyes without any hard effort.

5. Adventure Sports in Nepal 

Besides the trekking, tours, and lavish travel in Nepal, adventure sports are another popular activity you can do in Nepal. Having a diverse topography, phenomenal landscapes, and geography, Nepal offers dozens of adventure activities for the adventure seeker.

bungee jumping, paragliding, whitewater rafting, boating, zip lining, skydiving, canoeing, mountain biking, and many more are popular adventure sports in Nepal. These are the short and widely chosen sports activities in Nepal.

bunjee jumping

These activities are full of thrilling, adventurous, and heart-stopping moves while experiencing them. So, make sure that when you are in Nepal, don’t miss these activities.

6. Cultural Tour in Nepal 

Nepal is a small country but rich in culture, religions, and different traditions. The country is the home of heritage sites, temples, monasteries, stupas, historical places, ancient art, architecture, and numerous ethnic grounds with their festivals and traditions. These areas are the best places to explore for those who would like to know about these things.

Many of the cultural and historical sites in Nepal are still in the renovation process, as most of the sites were badly damaged by a massive earthquake that happened in 2015.

Tour

We recommend exploring most of the unesco heritage sites, Buddhist monasteries, and ancient temples around the country. The cultural tour would be easy, short duration, and affordable for everyone.

Popular cultural cities like Ghandruk, Panauti, Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, Chitwan, Bandipur, and many more offer the beautiful cultural significance of respective ethnic groups and their histories.

You can participate in different festival occasions like dashain, tihar, Holi, chhat parva, and Teej. Nepal is a unique destination to explore the hundreds of festivals and events around the year, despite being a small country.

7. Yoga & Meditation in Nepal 

Nepal is a spiritual land, a land where gautam buddha was born, a land where god and humans share the trail, and a land where yoga and meditation were introduced by many Yogis, priests, and sages. Besides all the above-mentioned adventure and joyful activities, you need to make your mind calm, peaceful, and relaxed.

For that, yoga and meditation are the best ways to explore the bottom of the Himalayas and inside the cleanliness of nature. You can discover inner peace and positivity through the diverse forms of ancient meditation practice styles. 

Yoga

According to the Hindu mythological books, Nepal is a sacred place where Rishi Muni used to come and meditate thousands of years ago. Similarly, many Buddhist monks used to come to do meditation in the Himalayas of Nepal.

You can also do yoga in the lap of the mountains, which has gained immense popularity in the last few years in Nepal. You can also go for the yoga treks in Nepal, which are the latest immersion packages in Nepal. 

8. Jungle/Wildlife Safari in Nepal 

Nepal is the home of exotic wildlife as it offers the diverse topography and climate of Nepal. Nepal has 12 national parks in Nepal, 4 wildlife reserves, 6 conservation areas, and 1 hunting reserve in Nepal.

Besides this, Sagarmatha National Park and Chitwan National Park are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. They are actively involved in the preservation and protection of exotic wildlife like the Bengal Tiger, Snow Leopard, and one-horned rhinoceros.

Chitwan

The national parks, conservation areas, and wildlife reserves actively protect rare wildlife like red pandas, leopards, musk deer, and many more vulnerable animals and birds.

Wildlife Excursions like bird watching, jungle walks, jungle safaris, Jeep safaris, and many more wildlife activities you can experience in Nepal. Bardia National Parks, Chitwan National Park, and Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve are popular for jungle activities.

9. Photography Tour in Nepal 

With diverse landscapes, high mountains, stunning views, rich culture, ethnic groups, and high nature, Nepal is one of the prime destinations for photography enthusiasts. Nepal offers a huge range of photography content for the photography passionate who love to capture beautiful moments.

Photography trek nepal

Many popular and famous photographers around the globe come here to capture the scenery of beautiful Nepal. The tour would be the most doable in Nepal for 2025-2026. 

10. Volunteering in Nepal 

People who want to know more about the Nepali lifestyle, culture, and festivals and at the same time contribute their knowledge and skills to the Nepalese people are the best things to do in 2025-2026.

Nepalese people are honest and kind, and their hospitality is amazing in the global ranking, as you can also learn things and share your knowledge at the same time. This trip would be very helpful for the freshly graduated students who want to spend a few months contributing their time.

Nepal

Besides these, there are numerous activities you can do in Nepal. You can hunt for the different foods of different ethnic groups, explore the Terai region, participate in the Hatti Polo game, and explore homestays in Nepal. At last, Nepal is a complete destination for most of the adventure activities in the world and you must visit here once in your lifetime. Please feel free to contact us anytime for different packages in Nepal.

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