Travel Diaries

Dec 4, 2017

Nepal Travel: Simple Do’s, Honest Don’ts, and Smart Tips

This One Page Will Save Your Nepal Trip: simple do’s, real don’ts, health hacks, local wisdom, and why ethical choices matter more than etiquette rules.

Dec 4, 2017

Offbeat Experiences in Kathmandu

Kathmandu is a melting pot of cultures. About 150 ethnicities come together from all over Nepal in the capital, creating a myriad of opportunity for discovery. Here we list some that we have developed for the intrepid traveller.

Dec 4, 2017

Taking Action for a Better Tomorrow

At socialtours, the actions towards creating a better tomorrow follow the lines of environmental and cultural sensitiveness, and a commitment to spread benefits into the local economy. We have put into place different initiatives regarding this (most can be read about online)

Dec 4, 2017

Weight limit | flights from Kathmandu to Lukla

The weight limit on flights to the Everest region, basically to Lukla is 15 kgs total - checked in and carry on. This also holds true for flights to all Mountain airports on the tiny planes. Basically, phaplu, Jomsom, talcha, juphal, simikot etc

Dec 4, 2017

#socialtours Feedback | We like to listen

Feedback and Reviews are an integral part of the process of improving a company's service. We take it seriously and truly value it. It is an honour when you take some time to write to us and care enough to review the experiences you have had with socialtours.

Dec 4, 2017

Reducing plastics during travel in Nepal

This is a fact. This year close to one million travellers came to Nepal. If each stayed about five days on average, which is quite reasonable, and drank 1.5 bottles of water a day, that's 7.5 million bottles of water, 50% of which will never get recycled, according to scientists. That's staggering.

Dec 4, 2017

Volunteer Travel Code Of Conduct

Travel and volunteer with respect, honesty, care for culture, people, and nature—so your presence creates positive impact, lasting trust, and good memories for everyone involved.

Aug 30, 2024

Beautiful valley of Lakes “Land of lord Shiva”

Do you believe trekking is a perfect remedy to ease all those stress, boredom, anxiety you built up during lockdown period? Let me share, how I managed to pull off necessary travel refreshment for my mental health and unleashed my travelling spirits.

Dec 4, 2017

10 things you probably did not know about Nepal

Nepal is not all trekking and mountains. We look here at some interesting aspects of this country that might have escaped your attention!

Dec 4, 2017

Wiring Money to Nepal

Once everything is ready for your holiday, its time to get the money to Nepal. When you transfer / wire money to Nepal just keep the following in mind.

Dec 4, 2017

Data Privacy Policy

As we deal with several clients and a lot of data changes hands, from the moment the enquiry is made to the point where a sale is made, we need a privacy policy that will protect the data of our clients. We reassure you that we are very strict about this, and consider it to be one of the ways to address our first value 'respect for every individual' apart from being a sound business practice

Dec 4, 2017

Cook like a local experience

We started our cooking class from May 1, 2011 and we believe the program is the most popular local trip of socialtours. The class happens every day except Saturday and few public holidays according to Nepali calendar.

Dec 4, 2017

Sustainable practices during cook like a local

We believe in sustainable business ecosystem and we exhibit our grassroots action through constantly co-operating with local entrepreneurs in every possible manner.

Dec 4, 2017

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

One of the few companies in the world that started with a principle of CSR, socialtours has internalised the principle of giving back to society, because the business survives because of society.

Dec 4, 2017

Our Chef's story

A short story on empowering women on how to be successful.

Dec 4, 2017

Responsible Tourism Policy

At the very start of the company, we produced a policy outlining a set of responsible points that we endeavour to adhere too and developed a guideline for travelling responsibly in Nepal. These early efforts placed us as leaders in the responsible tourism practice in Nepal.