HOW EXPENSIVE IS THE ABC TREK IN NEPAL? & WHAT WE PACKED🇳🇵

what's up everyone so we are now in Pokhara in Nepal we just completed the annapona base camp Trek which took 12 days overall but that was including two rest days and that was also through Boone Hill which adds on a few extra days so that's why we did it that long and in this video we want to go over what we packed in our bags and also the overall cost of the Trek to give you an idea of what you need to pack and how much it might cost you so we'll start with the packing part and we took this backpacks here which are like Osprey and the model is a Castro 45 liter so 45 liters I think it was the the right size for us we saw people with the smaller backpacks or others with bigger it really depends on you but this one I think was very good for us so a lot of these items that we're about to show we actually really bought here in Pokhara and Tamo since they have many hiking stores and this is actually a knockoff it's not like a real bag so we'll write the prices of some of the things that we got here in Tamil some some of our clothes we already had from previous trips and other places so we don't know the price but if it's things that we bought here we'll write down the price in the corner so my main problem was the chest strap here that goes across there which I think you definitely need to distribute the weight it uh it broke but there was a store on the trail that had super glue like the first store that we went to so it was quite quite easy to find and was able to super glue it and that fixed it for the rest of the trip so that was the only real issue all right so should we take turns showing what's inside yeah yeah let's go so first thing for me is my camera which is a Canon EOS RP um it's a bit heavy for this type of hikes so so some people wouldn't take it I would still take it because I got some nice photos and I like to take pictures so for me it was worth taking it yeah but I think a lot of people like a modern phone is good enough yeah and sunglasses this is very needed especially when you are uh like in the end of the trail near ABC and a Puna base camp because at least when we went it was oh everything's snowy and super wide so wearing this was a big help for us we also took this uh playing cards because there are some moments when there's no internet and there's nothing to do when you're at the tea houses and guest houses basically when you arrive from from the track like after finishing the entire day hiking some people take books to read I had a audiobook which I finished during the track but also played the card so it's good to take something for entertainment like this said yeah here I have my Poncho and waterproof pens which were very needed because every day it was raining at least in March uh again we bought this here and it wasn't as good as we wanted to so we still got kind of wet yeah light down like the Poncho I think the pants were okay yeah my pants were very good and they kept everything dry but the the Poncho was not and it's important to mention that our backpacks also came with a raincover which which we also used because of the Poncho issues so I think it is good to bring uh cover for the backpack and one for you too yeah a lot of the backpacks that they sell here already come with the rain cover so yeah like ours already came with it here I have my beanie which I bought in Tamil very good one it kept me very warm especially when it was extra cold like minus eight degrees Celsius and gloves as well now this one we also bought here but um as you can see it's it was not a good quality one so yeah it's ripped here and we really needed it I think we would have bought uh bigger ones because it was very cold our hands were very cold yeah so on the track I'd say the climate management is the hardest part because when you start in the truck around 900 meters it's very warm it's around like 25 degrees 27 degrees just like it is right now here in poker but then when we got to the top I think it got to around -10 and some days when you're tracking even in the coal Parts at the top uh if you're in the shade or if it's cloudy it can be freezing but then the moment the Sun comes out it gets really hot and you're sweating so you're constantly removing layers so I'll show a few things of mine and then we'll get back to carols so there is the coat like we said we clipped at the bottom at the start we didn't do that but as I just mentioned that you're constantly having to remove layers and put your jacket back on because the temperature's changing all the time we ended up just clipping it here it goes just easier to grab so this is a North Face one probably fake as well from Tamil and they said this works for like minus five degrees but you definitely need other layers beneath like thick layers to to be okay in that temperature but it was a good coat I like it yeah the same model as mine and I really liked it then on the outside also the water bottle we both have those we bought these here as well BPA free and yeah those were really good uh Elita were able to put boiling water in there as well and it would uh stay warm so that was nice when we're at the the top we'd usually boil water at night and then we put it in our beds to keep our beds nice and warm and we actually took some tablets like a medicine that you put in the water the tap water on the trailer just to make sure the water is definitely clean and safe and that was less than three dollars for 50 tablets and each tablet is a liter so one tablet for each one we saw other people that didn't do that and they had to keep buying water and yeah it can add up I think around 100 to 200 for a bottle of water and you're having to drink so much water on the trail so yeah those those guys were wishing that they just brought the medicine it would have saved them a lot of money and on the outside I had a few like quick grab things so we had the microfiber towel we had two of these but I think we left one in one of The Lodges yeah so those style towels that we have forever and we just lost one of them one of them yeah and that was kind of early on in the Trek so we had to use this but it's very thin very lightweight we've had this for years so it comes very handy and a lot of the light juice didn't seem to provide towel so I think you definitely need to take a microfiber towel we had a waterproof bag here like a wet bag so this was mainly just for important documents like cash our passports credit cards we used it for that items that we just can't afford to get wet at all so we kept all those in there and yeah it was always dry the inside of our bags was always dry anyway just because we had all the rain covers so no big deal sunglasses like Carol said definitely needed those at the top and then here we had a headlight that we bought here one that you put on there I think we only used it like once the day that we went to poon Hill for the sunrise yeah pool new and I think we were going to use when we were going to see the sunrise in ABC but since we're not feeling good we didn't use yeah there was one guy at our lodge he was doing the sunrise at ABC and we let him borrow like both of our lights because he didn't have one I know you have the lights on like a phone but this one is really powerful so yeah it's much better and then besides that I just had the same gloves as Carol which I would have got thicker ones basically the guy in the store when we bought them we told him where he was where we were going and he said it would be fine maybe it is fine for him but for us they were a little thin and then I also got a thin beanie for me this just kept me warm even though it's thin it's not so thick like carols but it was still no issue either way and Carol took a camera and I took the Drone it's like a mini drone mavic Mini 3 a new one I wouldn't take this if I was to go again I used it a few times in the beginning but then as we were going into the valley towards ABC there's so many helicopters helicopter tours uh Rescue helicopters things like that so it just seemed like a really dangerous place to fly and ended up never using it again for the rest of the trip and that with the controller is probably over a kilo so yeah I was carrying around like over a kilo unnecessarily pretty much so I wouldn't take the Drone again and this was quite convenient so it's a power bank we bought this at the airport 20 000 Mah so I think that could charge our phones probably about four or five times could charge the GoPro as well it has USBC and a type c charger so that was really good the majority of the latches though do have uh charges places to charge you just have to pay a little bit I think it was around like 200 300 to just charge one device but this is helpful because you can just charge this one time and then use this to charge all the other devices instead of having to pay extra for every single device since this is considered to be just one device but there were some Lodge is that don't charge anything yeah some other lodges had power outlets inside of our room so you didn't have to pay anything and we actually took took two power Banks one that you just show and then another one that I have in my backpack and I'm not sure if I would take two again uh I think we we needed the two only in like last day because there was a niche with the power but overall I think you don't need to if you were like two people and you have a one that's powerful I think that should be enough and the main camera that I took is just a small GoPro that's what all our travel Vlogs filmed on pretty much this and a phone that we're filming on right now so yeah that's just small easy to take and good to capture your travels I also took this new support which was like a lifesaver for me because I have a bad knee and I bought this one in in Pokhara 2 I think but it wasn't as good because it was hurting me like in the back of my leg I got a few Cuts in the back of my leg so I think I would I would have bought another one maybe on a different mod model and tried it before going to that track but this is only if you have any problems or I think you would have used one I would have bought one so I've never had any problems but if you're doing the ABC track it is an insane amount of steps like up and down up and down I think there's other tracks even people said Everest it's more gradual that when you're going up and down but on this one you're really going like steep steps up and down and I screwed my left leg it's not even good now so yeah I could have done with using that because even though you got the cuts your knee is actually okay yeah it helps a lot here inside I kept my electronics and Chargers I use the plastic bag in case something got wet here I didn't know how it's gonna be we took this one adapter which was very useful because we were charging the the power bank and everything with this thing here it has many different outputs pretty much for a world wide one we've always had that on our travel so yeah we use that and here the cables and um and earphones because you might need it to listen to music or something so here in this this bag and in another bag I took snacks which I wouldn't take it again I think I would still take some chocolates but not as much as I I took because uh the food is very good during the track or the restaurants they have amazing food so I never get to eat all the things that I took I think only chocolates because it's a bit expensive when you're out there yeah because before doing the track we thought they'd just have some simple food options in The Lodges but even at the base camps right at the top they have loads of snacks loads of food options so now the toiletries starting with the sunscreen much needed we saw many people like lobsters because they they didn't take sunscreen even more at the top when it's colder because of all the ice and snow I think reflecting it so that's when people were getting really burnt but we just passed 50 pretty much every day in sunny places anyway so yeah that's something that we always carry around all the time a mosquito repellent we never used it maybe it's because of the season I don't know if in other parts of the year you need this but they didn't need it I also took tampons so if you have a uterus you might need this lip balm very much needed even though I used it a lot I still got very dried lips but I think it's very important yeah overall when we were going up like the skin and the lips were getting very dry a lot drier than I was expecting that's why we also took this moisturizing cream hand sanitizer because sometimes there is no option to clean your hands properly so I use this a few times yeah one of the base camps they didn't even have like attached to clean your hands after you went to the the bathroom I mean you could find water would it be far away some of the Taps were frozen sometimes when we'd wake up as well so there was no running water so yeah you'd at least use that toothbrushes and a small toothpaste I wear glasses and contact lenses so I took this to clean the lenses my glasses and also an extra pair of lenses but I didn't need it so still here soap and we use it every day to shower clean our hands and stuff one small bottle was enough for us deodorant we only took one and we both used it and shampoo and conditioner I took this smoke thing with conditioner and also cream to style my hair but I was only able to wash my hair once and it was on a on a break day so it is hard to wash your hair I mean for men it's it's probably easy but for me it wouldn't be easy every day or more often no a comb that I only used once I took this mirror because I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get my contact lenses on and off but I think most of the places that we stayed had mirrors and now very important the toilet paper we also took this uh like wet wipes we took two toilet papers and one wet wipe and we used pretty much everything in those 12 days yeah so wet wipes is also useful because when we got 10 BC you couldn't really have a shower there I think that was the only day that we didn't have a shower on the track so yeah at least using the wet wipes you can clean armpits your private parts yeah this one was the the one that we were using to clean our like take a shower because it has like a lavender smell and the other ones were for like toilets and stuff so we also took some medicine things like painkillers we took things for food poisoning like activated charcoal in here we have the little capsules that I mentioned to clean the water and we also had the medicine for altitude sickness which is called dymox so when Carol felt a bit funny at one of the base camp she took that so that's worth getting you can get all that here in in Pokhara and we also have things like plasters certain bandages in there in case you need it all right now we'll finish off with the the clothes so we ended up taking our packing cubes we always use these in our normal backpacks and yeah we just decided to take it because it compresses everything and keeps the bag organized because this is just a big big hole pretty much kind of hard to keep grabbing stuff within so first there I have the thermal layers almost every night I was using that even on the first day when we were hiking it was still pretty cold so I usually use these to sleep only but then the last few days at the base camp I'd even track with these when it was snowy and cold so they were absolute must and pretty much everybody has a thermal layers because just an easy way to keep warm and also light and thin and then I took three pairs of socks so one is just ankle socks so at the beginning of the Trek um it was very hot so I just used the ankle socks and I'd also be in these shots right here so for the first few days I was just tracking in shots the whole time we even saw people at ABC still checking in shots so depends on you what you can handle so I had those we saw people tracking flip-flops yeah even in the cold areas people were still in flip-flops crazy and then the other two were just thick ones so one pair would be to sleep these were really good because they were very long and then uh yeah just another thick pair sometimes we'd double up a lot of the time actually at night and at the higher outages even doubling up the toes were still feeling Frozen so it's very hard to keep your toes warm and here I have the bottom parts of these pants they're shorts but you can zip these on never used it though because I actually have another pair of proper hiking plants here so at the higher elevations I was using these thin and light strap cheese and I had this really thin t-shirt that I was using on the warmer days this is good too because it dries quickly so we did do laundry a few times at the lower elevations basically just in the sink with soap and then yeah the lower elevations it would be dry the next day at higher elevations it'd still be damp in the morning and we'd have to put the clothes on the outside of our backpack while we're tracking but then it did dry up when it was sunny yeah so that one was good to dry quickly I also took this one as well that I used at the higher elevations just a normal t-shirt but not so good for uh drying because it's cotton I think yeah it's cotton I have this uh long sleeve very thin this doesn't really keep you warm I just use that to sleep sometimes in bed and I took five pairs of underwear as I mentioned before we would do laundry so yeah about halfway through the trip we kind of cleaned everything all our underwear and stuff so I just took five pairs some people take less a lot of people were in the track and they don't really care that much about hygiene at all we met people that hadn't showered for days they just don't really care they're just wearing the same stuff every day but that just uh depends on you as we mentioned only one day we didn't shower and pretty much the whole time our clothes were clean too and I had the final big packing Cube this packing Cube I've always loved because one side is uh for dirty clothes and it's kind of like order proof also water resistant so yeah you can put your dirty clothes in there and it doesn't stink out the rest of your bag so in here I basically just have all the fleece stuff all the warm layers so I'd use these as like pajamas too just like fleece pants so at the top I'd have like my thermal layers and this over the top to sleep and this is just another little fleece I didn't use this I only used it on the last days a lot of the time in the bed it would just be warm anyway with the covers and then this was a super thick fleece so at the top I was always using this and even at NBC the base camp there there was one day where I had the thermal I had the thin fleece I had this fleece and the big coal and it still wasn't enough to keep me warm because we've been in that kind of temperature before walking around the thing is when you're just in your room and you're not moving or anything your body temperatures go in very low you get really cold I was surprised and the the rooms are pretty much the same temperature as outside on this Trek so now it's tomato the clothes everything that I took are here inside of these two packing cubes here I took my underwear so I took two bras one that I was using during the day and another one and six panties so I took one big fleece like Chris and this was a very good one comfy and warm I took four pairs of socks in total but I wouldn't take this small one because I barely used it these were the main ones that I was using a light one to attract during the low elevations and these are the ones which were more thick for the cold weather and I took two pairs of thermals at the beginning I thought that would be too much but in the end I was still cold with all that so I'm glad I took everything so two thermal pens and two thermal tops I took two hiking pens one is the this one that's similar to the one that Chris has where I can remove the bottoms the other one is the one that I'm wearing right now which is a leggings just normal leggings with pockets and for the tops I took two uh this one here which is a very light one good for tracking and this other one which was also very light and easy to to clean and to dry and I also took this long sleeve top which I used only in the high elevations and since we're going to a hot springs I took this swimming clothes here yeah I ended up just using in these shots for the hot springs that I was tracking in so that's pretty much everything for our bags that we had in our bags we obviously took proper hiking shoes that we've used before in like Iceland Patagonia used in the Amazon had them for over a year now waterproof so they're very good even the locals that live there though they don't really have boots they just have normal trainers but they put uh plastic bags within them to kind of make them waterproof so that's what they use but I think it's definitely easier just to use proper boots and we both still took flip-flops so obviously when you hike it in your booths all day the moment you get to the lunch you don't want to keep your boots on still your feet are very like sweaty uncomfortable so yeah you want to give them a chance to breathe and relax so we use this the only problem with this kind of flip-flop though is that with one pair of socks it was okay we could still divide our toes but if we wanted to layer up like put two three pairs of socks on then you couldn't get your toes in there so maybe I would end up buying some others those ones that go over like that like sideways where you can just put all your your feet in doesn't divide the toes so yeah I would have got those instead and we also ended up getting crampons so as we were going out we were talking to people that were coming down from the base camps and they said that we should definitely get cramp on some of those guys didn't and they were slipping falling we actually saw some people that were injured one person would like a big bandage around it maybe broke their armor or straightened their arm not sure so we ended up renting it in Dew rally there's not that many places on the trail where you can rent them and we paid 500 a day but we could have just bought it in Pokhara for 500 overall so we would have done that we would have just bought it here but we were still able to rent it and yeah it was definitely worth it because some of the days that we were walking around there it was super slippy that just depends on the time of the year like when we were going it was raining and snowing a lot so other times of the year you you might not need that we also took one sleeping bag each which we have just returned because we rented here in Pokhara and a pair of walking sticks we only took a pair I think it was okay yeah so one stick each yeah which we also rented here in poker yeah and the sticks actually helps a lot because since I had a bad knee I was able to put a lot of the the weight on my arm instead of my knee so I think without that I would have been screwed and the sleeping bag is kind of optional because all The Lodges do have pretty thick blankets but I think it did just make us a lot warmer especially with the the hot water bottle putting it inside the sleeping bags the heat doesn't escape a few of the nights where I didn't have the sleeping bag I ended up kicking the covers off me and then all of a sudden you wake up freezing right so with a sleeping bag that can't really happen because you're kind of stuck inside but it is kind of optional just like the sticks and now we're going to talk about our expenses on this trip I just got my phone because a lot of prices to go over so overall our ABC track was 84 000 rupees so that was for 12 days so if you divide that by 12 days it's around 53 US dollars per day and that's for the both of us not each so the first thing that you're going to need before you do the Trek is the permits which you can get at the tourism office here in Pokhara it's quite easy in about 30 minutes you can get it you just got to take your passport and visa and some photos like passport photos for overall but there is a person there that you can pay to get the pictures too so the Tim's card here is 2 000 per person and the national park fee is 3 000 per person so that was 10 000 for us overall but there is a big change here now in Nepal where they're enforcing you to have a guide so everybody that's doing the trekking has to have a guide I think only Everest is exempt I don't think you need a guide there and I did read that now with the guide you might not need the Tim's card so you won't have to pay for that but you will have to pay a lot more for a guide so online it seems to say that a guide can be anywhere from 20 to 40 dollars a day and uh Porter if you want a porter that's the person that can carry your bags a lot of people use Porters it seems to say that's around 15 to 20 a day so to start the track from Pokhara we went to nayapoo by taxi and that costed 3 000 rupees and at the end of the track to come back to Poker we got two Jeeps from Gino and we shared with four other people in the price that we paid in total was 2700 rupees so the main cuffs on the track are going to be accommodation and food but a lot of The Lodges when we approach them they just say if you're going to have all your meals here you don't have to pay for the actual accommodation you just pay for your food and that's actually how the majority of them make their money it's more with the food than the actual uh accommodation itself and that's also because the rooms on the ABC track are very simple there's no heating system or anything's just like a bed with a blanket and that's it and many don't have charging stations or anything yeah only in the dining areas usually they have some sort of heating some of them at the higher elevations don't even have heating at the in the dining rooms anymore but in the actual bedrooms you never get any heating so as we mentioned before if it's like minus 10 degrees outside it's going to be like minus 10 degrees in your room so it is a super basic probably the most basic that we've ever stayed anywhere but we did pay probably about two or three times for the accommodation itself and now you charged us around 500 to 600 a night and that was for a private room for the both of us we didn't haggle with them there are many places where it says to not haggle with the locals and it's not that expensive so when they just set the price we just accepted it but we did meet other people that were able to do the entire Trek never pay in for accommodation only for food so we'll go over some of the food prices now since that is the biggest cost on the actual Trek itself for breakfast often Carol would have a veggie cheese omelette that could be around 280 to 360. the prices vary a lot on the track from Lodge to Lodge and also as you're going up in elevation because of the transport costs that usually raises the price of the food so as you go higher usually the food does increase a little bit pretty much every day I would have the guru bread with honey which is a kind of Tibetan bread that could be from 300 to 420 a rice pudding from 350 to 500 you could get a missality for around 120 to 180. at one place Carol had a nice coffee latte for 340 and one thing that we drank the most was Ginger honey lemon tea which was around 150 to 300 depending on where you were for lunch and dinner I think the thing that we ate the most was dalbot which was a trucker's favorite and the prices would range from 500 to 800 but that's also including a refill you can get like unlimited refills so that was a very good for Momos we would pay around 660 and for margarita pizza around 660 or 700 and I also had a veggie burger once or twice for 670. besides the food there can be some other costs at The Lodges to charge your devices or even to use Wi-Fi depends on the lunch though we went to some places where they didn't charge I think some of them actually have solo so when they had solar I don't think they would charge you because yeah it's pretty much free to them but in other places that don't have solar they charge and even for the showers as well we stayed at a place where we were able to have hot showers because they had solar but then one day there wasn't enough solar power so they had to use gas and then we had to pay for it so the hot shower charges could be from around 200 to 300 Wi-Fi would be around 300 per device the charger battery would be 200 filtered water around 100 to 200 and also boiled water would be around 150 to 300 because they'd also have to use gas to boil the water so I think once we were at the higher elevations we found that we were paying more for all the these extra things whereas at the lower ones that was just all for free so we actually took a hundred thousand rupees in cash as we mentioned we spent 84 000 overall but you will always easily want to take a bit extra and Carol read online beforehand it was 3500 per person the average the average per day so I think we did like exactly that yeah we did including everything the the the the permits and everything and it's important to mention that there are no ATMs on the trail but there are a few places that accept cards I think even a souvenir lady who saw she was accepting cards and got a bunny I think but it's best to just have enough cash and even a bit more than enough so that's it for the video hopefully you found it helpful it gave you some ideas of what you can pick and how much you're going to be spending we will link a playlist in the video description and the top comment which shows the actual trick because we did film the whole thing in about five parts five different videos if you want to really know how the track was if you found this video useful 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Published: Sun Apr 23 2023