Nepal is one of the most popular travel destination in the world that offers suitable trips for everyone. Classic Outdoors Tour is determined to provide the world class tours and trekking as well as any other travel related services. Families from around the world offers a choice of adventurous family holidays to Nepal. Our carefully designed programs are suitable for family holidays with the children which will allow you to experience Nepal in the best possible way. Nepal family holidays offers exquisite programs for you to spend quality holiday with your family which can be either in the cultural sites or at the fascinating yet fabulous Himalayan ranges. Cultural tours with a bit of adventure twist can be interesting or else you can also option for the short hiking or trekking in the mountains. The trip provides an opportunity to learn more about the diversified Nepalese culture and tradition. The kids will also come across the different cultures, language, geography and lifestyle of the people.
Cultural Tours with Family
Our cultural tours is planned in such a way that it provides adequate amount of time for experiencing the mesmerizing and glorious history of Nepal. You along with your family will be visiting the various sightseeing places that are even listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The extravagant palace squares namely Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur Durbar square acts as an open museum that displays the enormous array of the art and architecture of the medieval period. You can also combine the tour to other popular cities of the country. A visit to the plains and experiencing the jungle activities can be a choice. Spending few days in the national parks and undergoing various activities such as bird watching, elephant back safari, traditional tharu cultural dance, canoeing, jungle walk etc. will provide you ample opportunity to come close to the nature. A visit to pokhara can be noteworthy too. The city of lakes lies in the foothills of the majestic Mount Annapurna range. Pokhara is also a gateway to the Nepal’s Annapurna region which is very popular amongst the trekkers around the world. Pokhara is the perfect place where various adventure activities are carried out. The popular adventure activities are: trekking, hiking, paragliding, ultra-light flights, mountain biking, bunjee jumping, zip flying etc. Besides the adventure activities, pokhara is also famous for the cultural tours which includes sightseeing to the various places such as Bindabasini temple, Tal Barahi Temple, Seti George, Davids’ Fall, Mahendra Cave, Chamero (Bat) Cave, Gupteshwor Mahadev Cave, a visit to Peace pagoda and boating at Phewa tal and Begnas tal. You can also combine all of the above destination and understand Nepal to the fullest.
Family Adventure Tours
Getting oneself involved in hiking and trekking along with the children is also possible in Nepal. Trekking in the Himalayas along with the family can be much interesting than trekking alone. Taking few precautions you along with your family can travel to the mountains. Going for an adventure tour with your family is of great value and a great way for you and your children to meet new people! While itineraries are pre-planned there is also flexibility and you'll have plenty of time for yourselves. Normally the kids tends to be aged between 7 and 15, also kids of age 5 can take up adventure tours and some older ones, perhaps traveling as a part of a larger family group.
Special Tips for Family Adventure
- Special care of children's food and diet need to be cater as their bodies are quite sensitive to different varieties of food.
- Check the availability of nearby doctor or a registered nurse at the place of your staying.
- If you are staying in hotel having a pool facility, make sure that the pool has a shallow end or separate toddler's pool, lifeguards on duty and the enclosed boundary at the pool.
- If the child is very small, be assured to have a babysitting facility on your family adventure tour otherwise, you will be involved with the little toddler every time.
- During trekking an extra porter is recommended who shall carry your child during the trek.
- While indulging in any of the adventure activity make sure your child is safe and comfortable, don't force upon any activity on your child specially, in which they show hesitation.
- Know more about Nepal and Choose a hike that is short and with a destination that would be interesting to a small child.
Suggestions:
Kid’s interest: Mountain, animal of jungle safari, local kids and water is quite eye-catching for kids.
Flexible: Don't plan high destination hike that you ignore the signs your child is ready to turn around. To create a life-long hiker, you want his or her first experiences to be good ones.
Pack extra clothes - Always bring a jacket, hat and an extra set of clothes.
Stop often for energy breaks - Food and water can be a great reviver and motivator.
Pack a lot of patience and praise - It's all about the journey, so let them explore every corner and cranny while at the same time praising them for their little activities.
NOTE: Some higher-grade trekking trips are not advised for children below 6years. Normally, traveling with small children is not advisable at the higher elevation above 4000m. These virtually leave certain risks like high altitude sickness as well as other high altitudinal symptoms and even turn to be fatal.
But, especially for children, we have designed some wonderful trips. The trips package we have planned are relatively short and don't go too high. We encourage you to set your own leisurely pace while trekking and we don't let your children getting fad up while on a trek. High altitude sickness is fatal altitude problem but can be checked by acclimatization. A large fluid intake is a factor that greatly helps in acclimatization. Great care, nutritious food will be provided. Team staffs are always ready to support them and make arrangement to shoulder them on whenever they feel exhausted during trekking period.
