You sleep in teahouse lodges every night of the Annapurna Sanctuary Trek and eat three cooked meals a day, all included in your package. Eight nights run from Ulleri at 2,080 m up to Annapurna Base Camp at 4,130 m, then back down to Bamboo. Rooms are simple, clean and usually twin-share, and every lodge provides blankets. Meals come from a fixed local menu that lodges across the Annapurna Conservation Area agree on each season.
Where You Sleep Each Night on the Trail
You stay in eight teahouse villages on this 9-day route, and comfort drops steadily as you climb. Lodges below Chhomrong have concrete walls, attached bathrooms and Wi-Fi. Above Chhomrong the buildings turn to plywood and stone, and facilities become shared. Machhapuchhre Base Camp and Annapurna Base Camp are the most basic nights of the trek.
| Night |
Village |
Altitude |
Room standard |
Attached bathroom |
| 1 |
Ulleri |
2,080 m |
Comfortable lodge |
Usually yes |
| 2 |
Ghorepani |
2,750 m |
Comfortable lodge |
Many lodges |
| 3 |
Tadapani |
2,630 m |
Simple lodge |
Some lodges |
| 4 |
Chhomrong |
2,040 m |
Comfortable lodge |
Yes |
| 5 |
Dovan |
2,600 m |
Basic teahouse |
hared/Private |
| 6 |
Machhapuchhre Base Camp |
3,700 m |
Basic teahouse |
hared/Private |
| 7 |
Annapurna Base Camp |
4,130 m |
Basic teahouse |
hared/Private |
| 8 |
Bamboo |
2,345 m |
Basic teahouse |
Shared/Private |
What a Teahouse Room Is Really Like
A standard teahouse room on the Annapurna Sanctuary Trek has two single beds, a foam mattress, a pillow and thick blankets. Walls are often plywood, so sound carries between rooms. There is a light and, lower down the trail, a power socket. Bring earplugs and a head torch and you will sleep well.
Bedrooms are not heated anywhere on this trek. The dining hall is the warm room in every lodge, heated by a stove or a kerosene heater in the evening. At Machhapuchhre Base Camp and Annapurna Base Camp, night temperatures drop below freezing from November to March. This is why we recommend a sleeping bag on top of the blankets, and we include one in your package if you need it.
Do You Get Your Own Room?
Most trekkers get a private twin room on this route, because the Annapurna Sanctuary is one of Nepal's best-served trails. In peak weeks during October, November and April, lodges at Deurali, Machhapuchhre Base Camp and Annapurna Base Camp fill early. Your guide radios or phones ahead each morning to hold beds for your group. On the busiest nights you may share a room with another trekker of the same sex.
What You Eat on the Annapurna Sanctuary Trek
Teahouse menus on this route carry 20 to 40 dishes, and the Nepali and Tibetan items are the ones worth ordering. Every lodge cooks the same core list, so you can plan your day around what you know is good. Portions are large because the menu is built for people who walk eight hours a day. Below is the menu you will see from Ulleri all the way to Annapurna Base Camp.
| Meal |
What to order |
| Breakfast |
Tibetan bread with honey, chapati, porridge with apple, boiled or fried eggs, pancakes |
| Lunch |
Dal Bhat (lentils, rice and vegetables), momos, thukpa or fried noodles, fried rice |
| Dinner |
Dal Bhat, vegetable curry, Sherpa stew, pasta, garlic soup |
| Drinks |
Black tea, milk tea, masala tea, ginger lemon honey, hot chocolate |
Your package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner every day on the trail, plus two servings of tea daily. Single portions are covered. Soft drinks, beer, bottled water and second helpings of non-Dal Bhat dishes are not.
Why We Recommend Dal Bhat Over Western Dishes
Order Dal Bhat and Nepali food rather than pizza, steak or lasagne — the local dishes are fresher, safer and better fuel for trekking. Every ingredient on the trail arrives by mule or on a porter's back, so imported items sit in storage longer. Lodge cooks make Dal Bhat several hundred times a week and Western dishes a handful of times. The gap in quality shows up quickly.
Dal Bhat is also the best value meal on the mountain. It arrives as rice, lentil soup, seasonal vegetable curry, pickle and often a papad, and most lodges refill the rice, dal and vegetables for free. That gives you roughly 800 to 1,000 calories of slow-release carbohydrate and plant protein in one sitting. Our guides eat it twice a day, every day, for exactly this reason.
We also ask you to avoid meat from Deurali upward. There is no refrigeration above 3,000 m, and any meat served there has been carried uncooled for two or more days. A stomach upset at 4,130 m can end a trek that was otherwise going well.
Food, Altitude and Safety Above 3,000 m
Eat and drink more than you feel like above Deurali, because altitude suppresses appetite and thirst at exactly the point your body needs both. Aim for three to four litres of fluid a day and finish every meal even when you are not hungry. Garlic soup appears on every menu on this trail and genuinely helps with acclimatisation. Tell your guide straight away if you cannot eat or keep food down.
Skip alcohol from Deurali onward. Beer and spirits are sold at Machhapuchhre Base Camp and Annapurna Base Camp, but alcohol dehydrates you, disturbs sleep and masks the early signs of altitude sickness. Save the celebration for the hot springs at Jhinu Danda on the last day. Your guide will tell you the same thing.
Drinking Water on the Trail
Single-use plastic water bottles are banned inside the Annapurna Sanctuary, so bring a refillable bottle and a way to treat water. Every lodge sells boiled water by the litre, and prices rise with altitude. Chlorine tablets, a SteriPen or a filter bottle all work well and cost less over nine days. Your package includes a bottle for storing hot water overnight, which doubles as a bed warmer at Base Camp.
What You Pay For Yourself on the Trail
Everything below is a personal cost, not part of your package, and there are no ATMs after Pokhara. Carry Nepali rupees in small notes for the whole trek. The figures below reflect the 2026 season and rise as you gain altitude.
| Extra |
Typical cost |
| Hot shower |
NPR 100–400 (gas below Chhomrong, bucket higher up) |
| Charging a phone or camera |
NPR 100–300 per device |
| Wi-Fi |
NPR 200–300, reliable only up to Chhomrong |
| Boiled water |
NPR 80–400 per litre |
| Beer or soft drink |
NPR 400–900 |
| Tips for guide and porter |
Your judgement, end of trek |
We suggest budgeting NPR 1,500 to 2,500 per day for these extras. Wi-Fi and mobile signal fade above Chhomrong and are effectively gone at Machhapuchhre Base Camp and Annapurna Base Camp. Treat those two nights as offline and tell people at home in advance.
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Photo: Way to Chhomrong
Photo: Near MBC
Photo: ABC to Bamboo
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