Smart Resort Marketing Tips To Increase Bookings

How will I get more bookings and boost my resort’s revenue?

This is the question that troubles every hotelier’s and resort owner’s mind when they are looking to accelerate their business and to keep it running in a smooth and profitable manner. The question is an easy one but finding a seamless solution to it can be challenging.

The challenging part lies in the fact that the hospitality industry is dangerously and abashedly competitive. An overwhelming amount of hotels and resorts enter into the resort business each and every day. Adding to that are the increasing popularity of homey and affordable stays like Home Away and Airbnb, which makes it even more challenging to stand out given and attract more bookings.  While resort owners are more often than used to these kinds of challenges, they are always tasked with meeting their targets and exceeding the metrics that is mostly dependable on bookings.

So what can a struggling resort marketer do? How does the resort marketeer attract customers and get them excited so they can’t wait to book their stay in that resort? Do not get anxious or concerned; as here comes 7 no fail promotional tips that will lead to success and an over pouring surge in bookings:

1.      Become Easy to Find Online!

Let’s face it, internet has taken over our lives. The days of going over to a travel agent’s office and looking at the printed brochures are long gone. Today’s globetrotters can do their comparative research and analysis without even leaving their beds, by surfing through their laptop and phone screens. So if your resort is a not easy to find item online, then there is no doubt behind the fact that your bookings are few and far between even during the peak seasons. You need to be omnipresent in the internet, in all the relevant online search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo), so that your resort’s website can be easily found in the very first instance of search results

Most of the travellers (nearly 75%) start their research by using relevant keywords in search engines, so you need to stay at the top of your SEO game. Add popular and commonly used keywords to your site, so that it your resort name comes at the top of the search results and make sure that your website loads super fast.

Do not just rely on social optimization alone. The search engine results page for resort related searches is heavily monetized and mostly taken by ads, such as the screenshot below.

This means that people will sees the ads first. You will need to bid aggressively to be at the very top of the search results and also in other Networks like Facebook, Instagram and in travel websites like Kayak and Tripadvisor.

While it may be not be necessary and possible to have a strong presence in all of the search engines and travel websites imaginable, you should dig deep into your website analytics, and find out the sites where people typically do their bookings from  like MakeMy Trip, Tripoto, Ibibo. You can make an impression by having an engaging presence on these platforms.

2.      Make sure that you are targeting The Right Audience

What is the resort image that you want to portray through marketing? Who are your target audience? There needs to be a distinctive strategy applied for marketing a little lodge type resort off route 9 compared to secluded, lavish., couple’s resort like Fiji’s Vatulele Island resort overlooking the blue waters of the South Pacific shores. Your specific target audience will vary in budget, requirements and in travelling style. Here is where Income Targeting tools come in handy.

There are ways of breaking down your target audience when it comes to marketing your resort. Many resorts caters to a wide range of customers from varying income levels, since they offer rooms both extravagant types (like presidential suites) and also affordable rooms at discounted prices. These two audience types of varying sensibilities need to be targeted separately.

You will need to group your audiences into two or three, or even four separate campaigns as required and make sure to send the right message to each type with the right prospect in mind. With the help of tools like Facebook’s targeting options, this job has become much easier than it was before. Before doing this, you have to spend a considerable amount of time defining your audiences, so that you craft the suitable message to send to suitable group at the right time.

3.      Create Fresh Content for answering Customer Questions

Content Marketing is one of the best and most effective ways to increase bookings. First step requires digging deep and researching to find out all the different questions and problems that your target audience has and composing a detailed content strategy that can answer all of those. This will aid to increase your resort’s visibility online as more and more people come to know and build trust in your brand that can increase the chances of converting them into customers. You can do so by registering to Quora and finding the list of questions related to your resort type and location. You will find a bunch of queries related to your resort’s location like “things to do around or best places to visit around, or best food items in the X or Y city”. Create content related to these topics, publish them on your resort’s website and you are done.

4.      Spend More on Marketing during the Peak Booking Seasons

If you are running a range of beach rentals near the Cape or a ski resort in the Alps, then your peaking booking seasons are going to be entirely different. Being a resort marketer, you are very much aware of your resort’s peak booking season, and even if you want, you might not be able to increase the total marketing costs especially for the peak season.  Henceforth, it makes more sense to spend more of your annual budget during the busiest season.

For these times, aspects like ad scheduling come into scene. When do people usually start booking their trips? Perhaps you run a resort that is mostly booked by business travellers. These individuals mostly book during the business hours as compared to the folks travelling for leisure and relaxation who are most likely to do their booking during the weekends or weeknights. By researching and gathering data, you can set a schedule so that your ads are displayed at a higher budget during the peak hours at months of the peak booking seasons.

5.      Build partnerships with Local Businesses

Chances are that your resort is not located in a no man’s land or in the middle of desert. It will definitely have local attractions and businesses as its neighbours. That can be a well known joint of eateries, shops, restaurants or health centres and yoga studios. It will be extremely beneficial for you to get to know your neighbours. Building partnerships with local business owners can be a great way to co-promote each other, especially when you marketing a boutique, one of a kind resort rather than a chain.

For example, you could partner up with local brewery popular in the area, and run a series of contests where the winner gets a free beer testing, a brewery tour and a discounted stay at your resort. Building these partnerships with your neighbours will lead to affordable, easy and effective marketing that will definitely give a hike to the booking rates.

6.      Go for Simple, Clean but also a Breathtaking Look for your Website

There are many resorts that loose a whopping amount of potential customers because of their lacklustre website design. This is an instant turnoff for online bookers. If your website is not clean and pleasing to the eyes, then why would your physical location be? Your website is the first thing people know, and first impression they get of your resort, so you need to make it look breathtaking but at the same usable. This means that it should look simple and straightforward to users surfing on any type of device, so that they can find the required information and also be able to complete the booking without any hassle.

The navigation system should clean and smooth. Ensure that the hotel photographs are all high res and professional, displayed in perfect ratios and formats for mobiles, tablets and desktops. The language should be engaging and crisp, and the booking process easy and seamless. Videos showing virtual tour work wells, since they tend to show the beauty and space of your resort in a much more engaging and thorough manner.

7.      Go for an Above and Beyond Customer Service

Customer service and marketing go hand in hand, especially in the hospitality industry. If you provide an above and beyond, stellar experience to your customers, they are a lot more likely to pay it forward through outstanding online, reviews, referrals, and return visits thus leading to more business for you.

Bottomline is there are a variety of resort marketing tactics and tools, but choosing and implementing the right ones will only to outstanding results. The above-mentioned methods are all tried and tested tactics that have led resorts to their respective paths of phenomenal success. Do not think twice, and follow this guide to put your resort back on the track of a frenzied booking spree.

Setting Up Air Separation Units for Industrial Gases

The process of Air separation is regarded as a common mechanical process that is employed to extract all or particularly one of the essential air components. The three fundamental constituents are Oxygen - 20.9%, Nitrogen - 78.1% and Argon - 0.9%. These three particular gases form the bloodline of modern industries such as the chemical product, metallurgy, petrol refining, and steel product industries and thus, they are the primary users of the Air Separation Unit (ASUs) of the world. For example, argon is required for welding, nitrogen is unquestionably used as an inert gas in metals, and food processing and oxygen is required for steel production. The residual gases exist in minute amounts and are generally not extracted. In large scale, ASUs or air separation units, Krypton, Xenon, and Neon is often extracted in tiny amounts. 

The cryogenic air separation process exploits the different boiling condensing points of the air components to facilitate the separation through distillation at cryogenic temperatures. 

The main elements of air possess the below-mentioned boiling and condensing points at atmospheric pressure:

Ø  Nitrogen (320.4° F)

Ø  Oxygen (297.3° F)

Ø  Argon (302.5° F)

Air is a simple and abundant mixture, hence distilling and liquefying air contributes to a process to separate Argon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen. All worldwide ASUs function through this process. 

Components of a Basic ASU

§  Main Air Compressor or MAC

The job of MAC is to compress atmospheric air, mostly to 60 to 90 PSIG, and deliver it to the central system. Electric motors drive these compressors. The inbuilt Interstage coolers remove heat generated in each particular stage of compression, which is mostly of 2 to 3. 

§  Front End Clean Up

The modern ASUs consist of a Prepurifier Unit (PPU) that eliminates moisture, Carbon dioxide, and most of the hydrocarbons. CO2 and moisture need to be removed to prevent the forming of ice and dry ice that can form later. A Prepurifier Unit typically constitutes a chiller for cooling the air till 40-55F, also a condensate separator for removing water and vessels that are filled with mole sieve and desiccant material to absorb the contaminants while the air passes through. One of the beds is always in line with the process, and the one is regenerated using the heated waste Nitrogen to eliminate the accumulated waste. The beds switch automatically every 5 to 8 hours. The air flowing through PPU is CO2 free and contains little moisture. Some older, preceding ASUs facilitate reversing of the heat exchangers for accomplishing the front end clean up. The systems precisely include exclusive heat exchangers made from cryogen to chill down the CO2 and moisture, thus letting the clean air to flow towards the process of distillation. The heat exchanger passes are swapped every 3 to 10 minutes through an array of check and butterfly valves. While one pass removes the contaminant waste, the other one gets regenerated by the growing waste gases. The removal of the CO2 and moisture through the reversing of the heat exchangers is practical both in operating and capital costs.

§  Coldbox

This component has inbuilt distillation columns, heat exchangers made from cryogen, piping, and connected valves. Because most parts of the system are cold, they are reinforced inside of the coldbox and sheathed in insulation. The Coldbox can be of cylindrical or rectangular shape and are generally tall, can be than 200 feet in height depending on the Argon system type and capacity. 

Latest Coldboxes are constituted using perlite insulation that makes it easy and light to remove and install, as and when required. Older coldboxes are mostly filled with Rockwool that is packed by hand as fourteen pounds per cubic foot. This made them time-consuming and tedious to install or remove.

§  Expander

Most ASUs except for some consist of expanders. Expanders supply with the required iciness to the distillation column systems. Waste Nitrogen, air or Nitrogen is fuelled to expander that turns the wheel and transfers energy to the generator, compressor oil brake. The energy transfer cools the gas down. With the continuation of the process, the expanders outlet temperature gradually reaches the design temperature level, while the column system gets cooled down.

§  Liquid Argon Systems

The Liquid Argon Systems are commonly 2 types. Generally, plants are not equipped with Argon separation equipments. In those cases, Argon is exited from the ASUs with the wasted gases. The first kind uses a coarse Argon column, which concentrates Argon at 2 to 3% of Oxygen content from the 88-92% of the low-pressure oxygen column. The coarse Argon is heated and then merged with hydrogen before entering the catalytic reactor. It is where the O2 and H2 combine to form water. The wet form of Argon is dried and cooled again to the level of cryogenic temperatures. Next to this, the N2 and H2 are removed in the distillation and separator column, distinctively.

The Cryogenic Argon system is solely dependable on distillation to start with the purification. The columns are more than 200 feet tall, to fit in the large volume of trays for separating Argon from O2. Most of the new plants employ Cryogenic Argon System for avoiding the usage of Hydrogen and Argon compressor in the procedure. The drawback to this is the recovery time becomes for achieving purity after it starts up over and again within the next 48 hours. 

Setting up of an Air Separation Unit

Scope of Work

This is the standard procedure followed by Air Separation Units for the production of liquid nitrogen, liquid argon, and liquid oxygen. The unit consists of centrifugal air compressors, fixed absorption purification beds, packed with molecular sieves for removal of carbon dioxide, and water moisture. 

The 3 liquefied elements are composed for cryogenic storage. The description of the startup procedure is as follows:

Ø  The cooling water from the compressor intercoolers gets circulated throughout all the coolers.

Ø  The air absorption purification unit is prepared by separating the absorption bed that was to be initially used for the start-up procedure. The block valves are setup for allowing the purification procedure to take place on one bed while the other bed is regenerated. 

Ø  The central air compressor is manually flipped over while the main starter of the electrical motor is disengaged. This permits the compressor shaft to rotate freely. The vent valve for discharge gets entirely opened along with the interstage drain valves.

Ø  When there is confirmation of the instrumentation to be in working order, and the electrical switch to the motor starter of the compressor is unlocked, the circuit gets activated. All of the lubrication systems get confirmed.

Ø  The HP column’s expansion valves are split open along with the expansion valve of the low-pressure column.

Ø  The manual rotation of the expander valve is done to ensure the procedure operates freely, and the inlet air valves is shut tight while the outlet air block valve gets opened. When all the instrumentation seems to be working normally, and the electrical switch of the expander’s motor-generator gets unlocked, the circuit is activated. The lubrication systems also start working at the same time.

Ø  The initiation of the air compressor is done by turning on the electrical starter to the compressor’s motor. The unit is then allowed to blow the air through the interstage drains and the discharge vent. After the confirmation of the proper functioning of the compressor and that there are no issues with instruments and lubrication, the drains are slowly closed in series one-by-one in the order of increasing stages. The last to be gradually closed is the discharge vent valve, and the compressor’s discharge enters the adsorption purification system, while the speed of the entire of the discharge system boosts up to operating pressure. The pressure of the discharge is kept at the operating level employing the expansion valve on the HP column.

Ø  After the normal operation of the air compressor is ensured and feeding of the purification system and the HP column is in a steady, controlled state, the turboexpander is placed on stream by gently opening the valve of the suction block. The throttling of the expansion valve of HP column regulates the compressor discharge pressure steadily to be at the operating level. After checking the steady running of the turboexpander and the gradual decrease of the discharge temperature, most of the discharge is sent to the expander by smothering the HP column expansion valve. This is done for speeding up the cooling down and increasing build-up of coarse oxygen liquid level within the HP column.

Ø  The above step goes on until the liquid level of the HP column reaches the maximum design level, and the LP column expansion is slowly opened for allowing the crude oxygen generating from the HP column to chill down the LP column. The procedure is continued until there is a built-up liquid level at the sump of the LP pressure column. During this time the feed to the turboexpander is decreased while slowly opening the HP expansion valve. Routine Purity samples are taken during this time for confirming the established stream purities – especially the purities of pure oxygen.

Ø  After establishing the purities from the argon side column, it is put on steam by opening the feed valve off of the LP column towards the argon column. 

Ø  The ongoing streaming of the purity samples is continued and the empty adsorption bed is regenerated during this time. The regeneration process can be commenced as soon as there is 99% waste nitrogen in the column.

Ø  Once liquid levels get controlled and design stream purities are instituted and held to a fixed level, the transfer of the products, oxygen, nitrogen and argon are transferred on to their distinctive storage tanks.

Importance of Cryogenic Air Separation

The cutting edge technology of cryogenic air separating process possesses the capability to produce bulk quantities of the products ranging from a moderate to a high purity level, in comparison to the non-cryogenic systems. They are made up of membrane technologies with pressure swing absorption that is utilized at the lower end of the production scale for low purities. Also, Cryogenic ASUs control the bulk production of industrial gases. They are electricity-intensive, which means large capacities of air volumes are being crammed to high pressures through electric motor driven compressors. As a result, fast but significant price fluctuations in electricity are caused by the current deregulation of electricity markets. The process economics of powerful manufacturing processes can be enhanced by the frequent adjustment of the process outputs with respect to the price changes in electricity. 

The operational process can be further improved by the advanced control and automation of the plant. The application of advanced control has been incorporated in the few last decades. The first utilization of the computer-assisted control system in an air separation unit was employed in the early 1970s. Since those days, this proficient procedure has been used to improve the efficiency, productivity, and utility of an air separation plant. 

Conclusion

 After more than two decades, enterprises have successfully dealt with a large number of technical issues related to manufacturing and equipment design through the improvement of old techniques and equipment, independent research, and technology introduction. This technology has helped to increase efficiency and production to the capacity that each ASUs in Indian steel industries produce nearly 1100 tonnes each day. The huge investments and Joint Ventures to open Air Separation units have increased tenfold. With the setting up of advanced ASU establishments, India can finally take pride and boast about her budding industrial manufacturing and gas industry taking off and reaching new heights.

Martha Gellhorn, daring War Correspondent and Writer

Martha Gellhorn was an American journalist and novelist and one of the first few female correspondents of the 20th century. With her sensitivity and power of prose, she reported virtually on every major world conflict that took place in her career that includes the Spanish Civil War, the Vietnam War, and World War II. More so than garnering praise for her fiction and prose writing, she is often remembered as being the ex-wife of the American novelist Ernest Hemingway. Amassing a career span of sixty years, Gellhorn, "a cocky, raspy-voiced, chain-smoking maverick," refused just to be referenced as a footnote in Hemingway's life, and lived a life that was as much world-spanning and thrilling as her ex-husband's. With her fearless drive and extraordinary determination, she did not let anyone stand in her way once she committed herself to her cause for the common good. Her last few years were grief-stricken and painful. To this day, she is considered one of the eminent personalities who pioneered war reporting, especially for women all over the world. The Martha Gellhorn Prize for journalism is awarded to journalists with remarkable work in their fields.

Childhood & Early Life

• Gellhorn was born on November 8, 1908, at St. Louis, Missouri, to Dr. George and Edna Fischel Gellhorn. 
• Her father was a gynecologist and also a professor of medicine at Washington University. Her mother was a social reformer, an influential civic leader, and a suffragist. 
• She was the third child and the only daughter. Her brother Walter was an accomplished professor of law at Columbia University, and her younger brother Alfred was an acclaimed oncologist and the dean at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. 
• Martha graduated from the John Burroughs School in St. Louis. She attended Bryn Mawr College that was several miles outside of Pennsylvania. In 1927, she left without graduation, to pursue her journalism career. 

Career

• She started working for the 'New Republic', a dynamic, political magazine and then for a newspaper, namely The 'Albany Times Union' in Albany, New York, as a crime reporter. She returned to St. Louis after knowing about her parents being worried. 
• In Paris, she started working for the United Press Bureau and became an activist in the pacifist movement. She wrote about all these experiences in her book 'What Mad Pursuit' (1934). 
• Harry Hopkins, a top official in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, read the novel. Thoroughly impressed by her writing, he then hired her to travel the country and write about the effects of the Great Depression. Gellhorn traveled majorly around the United States to prepare a report on the impacts of the Depression. She made her first stop at Gastonia, North Carolina. It was mainly around this time that she forged a lifelong friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
• In 1936, Gellhorn met legendary American novelist Ernest Hemingway. From there, they traveled together to Spain, where she reported extensively on the rise of fascism and the Spanish Civil War. She went to Madrid in the spring of 1937, only carrying a single knapsack and $50, to report on the war for 'Collier's Weekly'.
• She later reported on the rising power of Adolf Hitler from Germany. The outbreak of World War II happened, and she penned down these events in the novel 'A Stricken Field' (1940). She then covered the war from England, Burma, Hong Kong, Finland, and Singapore. With the absence of official press credentials overlooking the Normandy landings, she possibly hid in a hospital ship bathroom, and after arrival, impersonated a stretcher bearer.
• After covering the war, she went on to work for the 'Atlantic Monthly'. She covered the Arab-Israel conflicts and the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 70s. She continued working, covering the civil wars in Central America through her 70th birthday in 1979. Approaching 80, she still determinately reported on the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989, finally taking retirement from journalism as the 1990s began.

Major Works

• 'The Trouble I've Seen' (1936), a collection of short stories that depicted the Depression Era
• 'A Stricken Field' (1940), a novel set in Czechoslovakia describing the outbreak and moral barbarity of war
• 'The View From the Ground' (1989), presents her six decades of experience in the field of war journalism

Awards & Achievements

• She was the only woman at Normandy on D-Day on June 6, 1944.
• She was definitely among the first to report from Dachau concentration camp after U.S. troops liberated it on April 29, 1945.

Personal life and Legacy

• Her first significant relationship was with Bertrand de Jouvenel, a French economist. She was 22 years old at that time. It lasted from 1930 till 1934. 
• In 1936, she met Ernest Hemingway in Key West, Florida. They got married in 1940. Gellhorn had a bitter experience being continually cited as Hemingway's third wife. She always expressed her discontent at the reference. Their marriage was a tumultuous one that eventually ended in divorce.
• While still being married to Hemingway, she had an affair with U.S. paratrooper Major General James M. Gavin. 
• In 1949, Gellhorn adopted a boy, Sandy. After spending a brief time together, Sandy was left in the care of her relatives in Englewood, New Jersey. Their relationship eventually became embittered.
• After becoming wholly blind and battling with liver and ovarian cancer in the later stages of her life, she committed suicide on February 15, 1998. 
• She transformed war reporting, and her defiance continues to inspire countless female journalists who have followed in her footsteps on the battlefield.
• In 1999, Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism was instituted in her memory.

Trivia

· She had homes created in 19 diverse locales.

Cause of Death: Suicide.

Personality: Ambitious, Dynamic.

Character Traits: Argumentative.

Challenges Faced: Divorce, Exile.

Why is Nepal a mecca for Hiking and Trekking Enthusiasts?

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It would not be called a recently discovered fact that out of the fourteen tallest mountains of the world, Nepal has been home to the eight of them soaring within its province. 

The terrain of the Nepalese Himalayas offers stunning trekking routes, each with their exquisite features that even rating one particular route to be the best trek in Nepal would be rather unfair. The choice rather depends on factors like level of difficulty, budget, number of days, and the particular time of the year that you will be able to spend on the trek. To make this task easy for you, let’s take a look at the top 5 best treks in Nepal based on popularity, price, scenery, and culture.

1. Everest Base Camp Trek

The Everest Base Camp Trek is the ideal option for people who wants to savor the breathtaking close-up views of the World’s highest Mount Everest standing at a height of 8848 meters. The journey starts from and also ends at the Tenzing Hillary Airport, via Lukla and takes a roundabout of two and a half to three weeks to complete. Along with offering spectacular views of the World’s tallest mountain, this experience of trekking in Nepal also provides views of other incredible peaks such as the Kongdi RI Himal and Thamserku peak.

As you trek down the glorious path of the legendary mountaineers, you will pass through the roaring Dudhkoshi River, serene Imjatse valley, and also get a close view of the Sherpa’s lifestyles who are known for their incredible physical endurance and climbing skills. Also, you will feel blessed accompanied by the Buddhist prayer flags and the Buddhist 

monasteries spread throughout the trail.

Overview

Maximum Elevation: 5,600 m, Kala Patthar

Days: 17 to 19 days

Difficulty Level: Medium to High

Remoteness Level: Not that remote (Undertaken by the highest number of trekkers each year)

Ideal Season: October to November and March to May

2. Annapurna Circuit Trek

This is one of the most renowned treks in Nepal. The trail passes through a culturally rich and diverse terrain of the Annapurna region, offering mesmerizing views of Annapurna, Manaslu, Lantang Himal, Dhaulagiri, and Macchupucchre. 

The expedition starts from the Annapurna Sanctuary Gate. In comparison to the other trekking destinations in Nepal, the Annapurna Circuit Base Camp Trek is demanding as it requires a lot more physical endurance, for it is incredibly steep, offering very less flat topography to climb upon easily.

Despite Annapurna being crowned as the riskiest and difficult mountains to climb upon, it is still one of the best treks in Nepal, offering awe-inspiring natural beauty from jungle to lush valleys to high alpine and arid peaks. When you will reach your destination at ABC Camp and view the radiating peak of Annapurna illuminated by the bright sun rays, all of the tiresomeness and fatigue will make this experience a worthwhile one. 

Overview

Maximum Elevation: 5,416 m, Thorong La Pass

Days: 14 days

Difficulty Level: Moderate to Advanced

Remoteness Level: Not remote

Ideal Season: October to November and March to May

3. Manaslu Circuit Trek

The Manaslu Mountain Trek circles the Manaslu Mountain, the eighth highest peak in Nepal and is considered to be one of the most difficult but also one of the most worthwhile treks in Nepal. Located on the Nepal-Tibet border, the journey towards this peak offers amazing panoramas starting from the epic sceneries of the forests to the views of the clouds touching the rocky landscapes. Trailing down this trek, you will reach the highest elevation at the Larkya Pass accompanied by other challenging mountain passes. The trail is adorned by Tibetan-style villages and diverse cultures of age-old Buddhist monasteries and is secluded, remote with enriched topography. No wonder Manaslu Circuit Trek is considered among the best treks in Nepal.  

Restrictions:

This trekking journey demands to be accompanied by at least two trekkers, particularly by a Nepali porter or guide. Also, there are restricted areas that require permits to trek upon. 

Overview

Maximum Elevation: 5115m at Larkya Pass

Days: 15 days

Difficulty Level: Hard

Remoteness Level: Remote

Ideal Season: October to November and March to May

4. Lang Tang valley Trek

Langtang valley located in the North towards Tibet, should be the perfect destination for trek if you are short on time as the whole journey takes about just 10 days. The Langtang Valley Trek is known for its diverse culture and vegetation beginning from the wonderful forests to alpine pastures and yak fields surrounding a Buddhist monastery, Kyangjin Gompa. You will be rewarded with splendid, unobstructed views of Langtang Ri, the panoramic views of Annapurnas, and also Makalu once you accomplish the Tserko Peak at an elevation of 4,984 m.

5. Upper Mustang Trek

This trek demands around two weeks to complete. Mustang is known as Nepal’s concealed paradise, which is like hidden behind the Himalayan ranges situated below the Tibetan boundary. The trekking journey starts from Jomsom and enters into the treeless desert zone. While on the trek route, you will be offered with astonishing views of Annapurna, Nilgiri, Dhaulagiri, and the other Himalayas. Huge barley fields, small huts, and houses painted white, Buddhist prayer flags and old Gompas add to the beauty of the place. 

Conclusion

These treks have made the country a Mecca for hiking and trekking enthusiasts from around the globe. Being the popular trekking destinations that there is, it can be wondered without a doubt that some of these popular trails can become very crowded in the peak months with thousands of trekkers venturing into treks like the EBC trek, that gets overbooked within the course of just few short months in the autumn. If you are planning for a trekking expedition, then these are the top 5 treks in Nepal are the best options to choose from in this former Himalayan kingdom.