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Hiring
Guide or porter
A good
guide can enrich your trekking experience in many
ways. Far beyond showing you the trail, he can show
you about the area and the mountains, explain about
local flora and fauna, teach you the Nepali
language, introduce you to locals, share culture and
festivals, run ahead and secure lodging in the busy
season, help out with your backpack if you are
struggling, and be invaluable in a bad situation,
look after logistics - like registering your details
in every check post, organizing your transport to
the trek head – weather you go by bus or plane,
liaising and directing the porter, etc. A licensed
guide - licensed through a month long training
session held by TAAN every year and instructs in a
variety of subjects including first aid, altitude
sickness and other important issues and must have a
certain level of English fluency determined in an
interview .
A porter is
hired to carry your bags, and that alone can make a
big difference trekking. Just be sure to give him a
reasonable load, usually a fully packed backpack. If
you are with friends, try to group your stuff
together in one big backpack and give that to a
porter and then each carry a smaller daypack. A
porter generally doesn't speak English but will
follow a trail just not get lost.
Hire a porter!
The best means of helping a porter is to hire one.
Hundreds of thousands of families in
Nepal depends
upon portering as their main source of income.
Sometimes
you can find a porter-guide , which
might be ideal if you are trekking alone or if you
have only one other companion. This is usually a
porter who has been on a number of treks, speaks
some English, and aspires to graduate to the guide
status. It's not that easy to find a porter-guide,
especially in peak season.
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