Nepal Complete Guide 2026: Everest, Annapurna, Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan
Browse more guides: Nepal travel | Asia destinations Nepal Complete Guide 2026: Everest Base Camp, Annapurna Circuit, Kathmandu Valley UNESCO, Pokhara, Chitwan, and Lumbini TL;DR Nepal in 2026 packs more raw landscape and living religion per square kilometer than almost anywhere I have walked. From the doorway of my teahouse at Namche Bazaar I could see eight peaks above six thousand meters before breakfast, and three hours later I was sharing thukpa with a porter who had carried loads to Everest Base Camp eleven times. That density is the headline. Eight of the world's fourteen mountains above 8,000 meters sit inside Nepal's borders, including Sagarmatha, which the Western world calls Mount Everest. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit on 29 May 1953, and 2026 marks the 73rd anniversary of that first ascent. The country also holds four UNESCO World Heritage Sites that matter for any first visit: the Kathmandu Valley monument zone inscribed in 1979 with sev...