Trekking Guide Cost
- Cost depends upon trekking region
- The cost might also depend upon the duration,
- The difficulty of trekking destinations.
- Experience of Guide
Where to find a pro guide for trekking
- On the guide information section of various company’s website
- Freelance guide
- Different Trekking agency
How to know whether the guide is pro or not
- It depends upon the experience
- Consistency
- Review
- The social profile of the guide
TIPS for Guide
TIPS also depends upon the trekking region, trekking destination, length of trekking, itinerary, difficulties.
How to find a Professional Trekking Guide in Nepal
Travelers visiting Nepal for various holiday destinations from cultural, historical, heritage sightseeing tours, or major trekking around high Himalayan hills.
Hiring a guide through a reputed company will be the best for a safe, enjoyable trek as well to know about the country.
Without a local guide your trek is incomplete as you will miss the fun and in-depth of the country’s impressive cultures. To experience Nepal and its interesting custom, local culture, trekking guides are necessary to show you around traditional hill villages.
In some popular mainstream trekking areas where most FIT (Free Individual Travelers / Trekkers) especially young people trek without guides. As young trekkers travelling on a tight budget find cheaper without a guide, porters on popular areas trekking like Everest Base Camp Trek, Annapurna Circuit Trek, and Langtang Valley Trek etc.
On longer off the beaten trails where all trekkers must join with a local trekking company in Kathmandu for one safeness. Trekkers can contact responsible local agents for treks of your choice where you can find good guides to accompany you.
Trekking in Nepal, whether on the main trail or around remote hidden Mountain wilderness, hiring Government licensed guides is highly advisable.
Request for Guide Who can Speak and Communicate in your Mother Tongue:
When booking with Nepalese company or with an agent at home, make sure for a guide who can speak your language. Trekking will be much easier and interesting having a local guide that can communicate very well with your choice of languages.
In Nepal, all trekking companies like White Hill Adventure provide all valuable clients with well trained and knowledgeable English-speaking guides. The services of guides speaking other languages (e.g. Japanese, German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Russian-Dutch, and French) may also be provided.
For special guides with knowledge of other foreign languages, apart from English are available on request and at additional cost.
Trekking guides and group escorts are well versed in their related assignment when guiding travelers to make the trek more enjoyable.
Professional Guide for Various Region and Expert of the Area:
Major cities like Kathmandu the commercial hub and capital of Nepal, where most leading and renowned adventure companies are found. Guides as per your interest from trekking-mountaineering, rafting to culture, ornithology and botany, can find the best-informed guides on request.
All guides, especially from White Hill Adventure work with a single-minded objective, acquainting all travelers with Nepal including other Himalayan destinations. Nepal, a wilderness paradise apart from high snow-capped mountain range, where the world’s 2% of all flowering, herbal medicine plants are found.
Where travelers can enjoy varied fauna and flora owing to the diverse topography with wide range altitude and climatic zones. That makes Nepal one of the most important and unique adventure destinations for all trekkers and nature lovers on this planet.
To enjoy more of Nepal where all trekkers need good guidance from friendly expert guides which helps you in many ways. Walking into villages visiting temples or monasteries on various destinations, travelers should know through your guide in respecting local culture.
The main Services (Job) of Trekking Guide
After booking a trek you will meet your guide at Kathmandu international airport or in respective hotels on first arrival.
Line of Job and Duty of a Guide as Follows:
To lead the trek as per the itinerary days provided by the company. Taking care of fellow clients throughout the trek, as well from main arrival to final departures as per company rules.
Guides should carry all necessary documents of the clients like TIMS (Trekking Information Management System) and Conservation or National Park entry tickets. Your guide also needs to carry his license and company ID and to show at the respective checkpoint where necessary.
Making sure that the client is satisfied and happy with the service rendered on treks or at Kathmandu. Reaching every overnight stop on time as per the length of trekking.
The guide holds responsibility for porter welfare, health, daily wages, and
transportation from the start to the end of trekking. Making sure of clients comfort and checking into the right best lodge where available. Checking guest health and welfare every day throughout the treks.
Guides responsibility for choosing or booking the right lodge and good rooms on route trekking. Always being at the beck and call when required by guests on treks.
Securing client safeness and helping to carry daypacks if needed sometimes when the customer is not feeling well. The guide should communicate well in English or in any other language as requested.
Your guide shows you the right and best path and as well should provide enough knowledge of the area from culture, history, religion including flora/fauna if possible. Guide to look after client health, if sick should be able to handle the situation and manage the immediate emergency evacuation.
Should arrange any means of transportation or Helicopter to bring the victims at the nearest hospital or medical post if needed. The guide fees / daily wages, depends upon past experience in related fields, best to choose veteran and expert guide who knows the area very well.
As per Nepal Government Rules is the US $ 20 to US $ 40 per day, as well depending upon the toughness of trekking routes. On top of daily wages guide is facilitated with transport, meals, accommodation allowance including medical insurance.
