Reimagine adventure in the Himalayas
El Yak is a premier adventure and mindful tourism company specializing in mountain biking, educational and community oriented trips. El Yak’s mission is to promote meaningful tourism across the Nepal Himalayas and bring direct benefits to local communities by engaging local guides and community members. The dynamic El Yak team comprises adventure guides, educators, community workers, and researchers and experts on local community empowerment, climate change, mindfulness and wellbeing.
We provide a range of mountain biking tours at different difficulty levels. We also offer retreats that combine a bit of adventure with mindful tourism for a meaningful travel experience. All our offerings are mindful of community benefits in design and implementation.
Explore unparalleled mountain biking trails in the Himalayas for all kinds of riders.
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Explore immersive experiences with mindfulness, learning, adventure, and service.
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Coming soon! Explore mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and well-being practices from seasoned experts. Coming soon!
→El Yak is a social enterprise dedicated to promoting adventure and mindfulness tourism in the Himalayas and helping local communities prosper through sustainable tourism practices.
Book a trip with us to have the experience of a lifetime while leaving a positive impact on the most vulnerable communities across the Himalayas.
Mindfulness is at the heart of our company. All our offerings are designed to directly benefit local communities, and to be mindful of impact on the environment and society.
We hire guides from the local communities wherever we operate our trips. This ensures that you have access to local expertise and knowledge, and that the trips run optimally.
Our mission is to promote new destinations across the Himalayas and establish the region as the premier travel destination for adventure and spiritual enthusiasts, students and learners, and institutions.
Our trips are optimized to balance cost with climate friendly practices such as use of electric vehicles, less plastic, and local foods and resources so that you can feel relieved about your travel's contribution to pollution and global warming.
There are no surprises with hidden costs. Our pricing is transparent to our customers so that they can feel assured about investment in their desired meaningful and hassle free travel experience.
We will work with you to customize your trip to meet your exact requirements so that you have a memorable trip. For minimal extra cost, we will also work with you to develop a travel itinerary from scratch.
Explore our most popular and unique trips.
$3,500
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$3,650
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$4,325
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Since 2013, El Yak and its founders have served over 200 clients in 38 different trips like trekking, mountain biking, community stay, mindfulness, and educational trips in the Nepal Himalayas.
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$2,240
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We believe that the outdoors present great opportunities for young people to engage with nature, learn wilderness, teamwork and survival skills, and develop leadership skills. Through our Himalayan Outdoor Education Initiative, we work with rural schools to develop and implement outdoor education programs and curriculum contextualized to local needs and opportunities.
Stories and reflections from our guides, clients, and community members.
GHT on Wheels challenge is a world record attempt by our founder Mangal Lama for the first ever solo mountain biking expedition on the upper route of the Great Himalaya Trail (GHT), a network of roughly 1700 km of trails through the Himalayas from East …
Note: Please note that the instructions are suggestive only for beginners and intermediate practitioners. As you develop your practice you might tweak the practice to suit your needs. However, it is suggested that beginners spend some time (from few weeks to months) with a method …
