Tea house trekking food & accommodation

Tea house trekking food & accommodation

Teahouse trekking food & accommodation.  Normally, in the Everest, Annapurna, and Langtang regions, we offer you accommodation in a tea house. A tea house is the combination of a guest house, restaurant, and social hangout. Private rooms are available in most tea houses, except for high-altitude ones, where they will be just dormitories. The lodges are fairly basic. The rooms are spare with twin beds and very little additional furniture. Blankets are generally provided. Most bathrooms are shared, and toilets can be either the squat type or the western version. Most of the tea houses have a running water facility. Many of them have hot water available for bathing. But we discourage our groups from using water heated by wood, as the lack of firewood in most villages is a big environmental concern in Nepal.

Tea house trekking accommodation: there is a large dining room-cum-lounge, warmed by the bukhara stove (an iron cylinder, fitted with a chimney duct, in which a log fire is lighted). There is normally no electric lighting in the rooms unless the village has hydroelectric power. The dining room usually has solar lighting. Some teahouses now also have electricity for charging small appliances—mobile phones and cameras—and there may be a small charge for this.

Tea house trekking food: During a tea house trek. You will usually have breakfast and dinner in the Tea House; lunch will be eaten at one of the trailside restaurants. Every tea house serves the traditional Nepali meal Dal Bhat (rice and lentils), as well as a variety of different food items, such as rice, vegetables, noodles, potatoes, and soup. Some have Nepali versions of western food such as pizza, pasta, and French fries. Soft drinks, snacks, and beer are available in most of the Tea Houses and trailside restaurants. And of course, Nepali milk tea is served everywhere.

All tea houses have boiled water for trekkers. We discourage the purchase of bottled water while on the trail. The plastic bottles are difficult to dispose of and have become an environmental problem.