Transportation

For 4 days of Gosaikunda Trek, as per group size, you’ll get a Scorpio or private jeep for transportation. However, for a group of less than four pax, we’ll use public transportation from Kathmandu to Dhunche.

The trek cost includes the transportation from Kathmandu to Dhunche and back to Kathmandu. Before starting and after ending this trek, you’ll get a hotel-bus stand transfer on a taxi.

Note: If you want an airport pickup, you’ve to pay USD 35 for us. You’ll get an airport-to-hotel transfer on a private vehicle.

Meals and accommodation

Tea houses en route to Gosaikunda Lake are decent and offer comfortable overnight accommodations. Also, you’ll get choices for each meal during lunch and dinner.

You’ll get four breakfasts, four lunches, and three dinners.

Breakfast includes Chapati with curry, pancake, omelet, boiled eggs, noodle soup, bread, muesli with milk, and more. The hot drinks for breakfast include lemon tea, milk tea, coffee, and black tea.

For lunch and dinner, the meal menu consists of similar dishes. However, you’ll have options to choose a variety of meals. Dal Bhat with lentil soup is the most common dish. You’ll also have a choice of chicken curry, fried rice, dumplings, noodles soup, Tibetan bread, and Chapati.

For the accommodation, you’ll get a twin sharing room. In Deurali, you’ll get an attached bathroom as well. You’ll get clean beds with pillows and warm blankets.

Gosaikunda Trek Difficulty

Is Gosaikunda Trek difficult? There’s no proper answer to this question. Instead of calling it difficult, we can consider it as a moderately challenging trek. For first-time trekkers, trekking here is challenging due to uphill ascends and downhill descends. However, trekkers with prior high-altitude trekking experience enjoy every section of this trek.

Due to significant uphill sections, almost the entire trail, many trekkers struggle to walk.For this, Gosaikunda Lake Trek is difficult. However, the trekking route is among the best with panoramic mountains, landscapes, and vantage points.

We’ve made a separate Gosaikunda Trek: Easy yet arduous trek blog to help you better understand the trek difficulty.

Altitude Sickness and Prevention on Gosaikunda

Due to quick altitude gain, some trekkers on the Gosaikunda Trek get altitude sickness. It’s because they trek from Dhunche to Chandanbari in a day. And the next day, they trek to the lake. Ultimately, they get altitude sickness.

However, our four-day trek itinerary is slow-paced. You’ll trek to the lake on the third day without getting altitude sickness.

Headaches, nausea, vomiting, and b are common symptoms of altitude sickness. Most times, trekkers even struggle to breathe and experience troubled sleep.

If you experience these during the trek, kindly report your symptoms to your trek guide. Your guide assesses the situation and provides immediate attention.

After getting altitude sickness, to cure it, descending to a lower altitude is the only option.

The preventive measures for altitude sickness are:

• frequent rehydration with oral salt solution
• adequate healthy meals
• avoid caffeinated drinks, smoking, and alcohol
• Acetazolamide tablets (with consultation with doctor)

Gosaikunda Lake Trek Permits

Langtang National Park entry permit is the only permit you’ll need for 4 days Gosaikunda Trek. To learn more about this permit, visit this blog.

After paying Gosaikunda Trek Cost to us, you’ll get the trek permit included. Hence, you don’t have to pay additional fees for the trek permits. You’ll get the permits at the national park checkpost in Dhunche.

Travel Insurance

For 4 days Gosaikunda Trek, we recommend you have travel insurance. Moreover, it must include helicopter rescue coverage up to the highest point mentioned in the itinerary.

Despite this trek being short and easy, you may get altitude sickness. Also, some unforeseen situations can lead to minor to severe injuries. Hence, travel insurance is a must if you’re joining our group for this trek.

With travel insurance, you’ll always be on the safer side. If you get altitude sickness, you’ll get on-time helicopter rescue. The best aspect, your travel insurance covers the entire helicopter rescue cost. Also, if you get critically injured on the trek, a helicopter evacuation can save your life. Moreover, travel insurance covers hospital and medication bills. Moreover, it also compensates for international flight delays and lost and damaged personal gear and belongings.

Note: We can only send a helicopter for rescue if you have a proof of travel insurance policy with helicopter coverage. Also, the trek cost you pay to us doesn’t include your insurance.

Best time, Weather, and Temperature

The reason for Gosaikunda Trek being popular is that trekking here is doable throughout the year. Spring, Autumn, Winter, and Summer, all are the best times for this trek. With clear weather, extended sunshine hours, and rain-free days in Spring and Autumn, the routes often get busier with trekkers. However, on rainy Summer days and snowy Winter days, the trails remain almost peaceful. Moreover, during freezing winter, between January and February, the tea houses remain closed.

Spring and Autumn

For the best weather in Gosaikunda Lake, you must trek here in Spring and Autumn. The crystal-clear weather gives you a fantastic, unobstructed viewing experience. The panoramic Langtang mountain range appears spectacular. Also, with the clear weather at the lake, you’ll get excellent photographic opportunities. In March and May, apart from clear weather, you’ll walk through serene juniper and vibrant rhododendron forests. And, in October and November, the shedding leaves with colorful trails make the walk exquisite.

Winter

The deep snowfall often turns the weather terrible during winter, from December to February. Also, it’s the time when almost all tea houses remain closed in the Gosaikunda Lake area. Hence, these months are not ideal for this trek.

Summer

Summer months, from June to early September, are rainy in Nepal. Trekking to Gosaikunda Lake in July and August is possible. However, the weather barely remains fair. Moreover, leeches, bugs, and frequent downpours often ruin the whole aesthetics of the trek in summer.

Temperature at Gosaikunda Lake

The daytime temperature at Gosaikunda Lake remains 4-5˚C during the Spring and Summer months. However, the nighttime temperature falls close to freezing, around -3˚C. These two season are warmer at the lake. Lower regions’ temperatures during late Spring and throughout Summer remain warm and humid. As a result, you’ll feel the heat and often sweat a lot during the first-day trek to Deurali.

As Autumn progresses, the temperature starts dropping. Hence, you’ll feel significant cold in October and November. However, the lower regions remain warm and dry.

The Gosaikunda Lake freezes in winter and remains frozen even till early Spring. With this, you can expect a drop in temperature to -10˚C to -15˚C. The daytime temperature during December-February remains around -4˚C.

Gosaikunda Trek Etiquette

Gosaikunda Lake is a Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage site. The lake holds utmost significance in the Nepali Hindu and Buddhist communities. Hence, every trekker must abide by the regulations at the lake.

Being a sacred abode of Lord Shiva, most trekkers take a holy bath at the lake. Even the foreigners are allowed to take a dip in the lake. However, you can’t take the dip naked. No one is allowed to swim in the lake naked.

Do not spit in the lake. Since the lake itself is sacred, spitting at the lake is strictly prohibited. Moreover, you must respect the pilgrims despite being a different religious practitioner.

You’re not allowed to consume meat (beef, chicken, etc) at the tea houses in the lake. Also, we advise you not to carry any meat while trekking to the lake.

And if you want to learn more about the region, ask your trek guide for detailed information.