Cholangpati and Sing Gompa (Chandanbari): Gosainkunda Village Guide, Day 8 of Our 13-Day Langtang Trek

Night 8 of our 13-day Langtang and Gosainkunda trek is usually spent at Sing Gompa, also called Chandanbari, and depending on how fast a guest walks it can be Cholangpati, higher up at 3,654 metres, instead. Either way it is the night before the walk up to the sacred lake. Our own day-8 heading in the itinerary names Cholangpati, while its text names Sing Gompa, so this page explains both. It gives our itinerary's numbers, the outside figures I could set beside them, a plain look at the sleeping altitude, and a list of what I could not confirm.

Where is Cholangpati, and what is Sing Gompa?

Both are night stops on the climb from Thulo Syabru towards Gosainkunda lake, which Wikipedia places in Rasuwa District, north of Kathmandu. Sing Gompa, also called Chandanbari, is the usual night on our route. Cholangpati is the higher alternative, used when a guest walks faster and the guide decides to go on. A search of OpenStreetMap, the volunteer map database, on 4 October 2026 found no place called Cholangpati or Cholang Pati, and I found no Wikipedia page for it. So I cannot give you a map point, a population, a ward or a history for Cholangpati, and I will not guess at them.

What I can place on a map is the ground around it. OpenStreetMap has a hamlet called Chandanbari and another called Laurebina (spelt लौरिबिना), both in ward 5 of Gosaikunda Rural Municipality. The park authority (DNPWC) says Gosainkunda is inside Langtang National Park and a Hindu pilgrimage centre.

Which days of the trek are around Cholangpati?

The night of day 8 of our 13-day Langtang Gosainkunda trek. These are the days around it, copied from our day-by-day plan. Distances and hours are ours.

Day	Route	Distance	Walking	Ends at
7	Lama Hotel to Thulo Syabru	13 km	6 to 7 hours	2,210 m
8	Thulo Syabru to Sing Gompa (Chandanbari), or on to Cholangpati at a faster pace	8 km	5 to 6 hours	3,654 m (Cholangpati figure in our itinerary heading)
9	Cholangpati (or Sing Gompa) to Gosainkunda lake	11 km	5 hours	4,380 m
10	Gosainkunda to Ghopte over the Laurebina pass	12 km	7 to 8 hours	3,530 m

Every night is a tea house or lodge. The night before is covered in our guide to Thulo Syabru; the days after are in the guides to Gosainkunda lake, Ghopte and Kutumsang.

How high are Sing Gompa and Cholangpati?

Our itinerary gives 3,654 metres (11,988 ft) for Cholangpati. I found no second source for that figure. The table sets our heights beside the nearest figures I could check. Where the outside number is a satellite reading, it is the Copernicus elevation model read at an OpenStreetMap point, which can be off by tens of metres.

Place	Height in our itinerary	Another source
Thulo Syabru	2,210 m	2,192 m, satellite model at the OpenStreetMap hamlet
Sing Gompa (Chandanbari)	named in the day 8 text	our own Gosainkunda guide says 3,330 m and about 3,250 m for Chandanbari; 3,345 m satellite model at the Chandanbari hamlet
Cholangpati	3,654 m	none found
Laurebina	day 9 rest point, no height given	3,901 m, same method; our Dhunche guide says about 3,900 m
Gosainkunda lake	4,380 m	4,380 m, Wikipedia (Gosaikunda page); 4,300 m on its Langtang National Park page
Laurebina La pass	4,610 m	4,610 m, Wikipedia (Gosaikunda page)

Our 3,654 falls between the Chandanbari and Laurebina readings, which is plausible but not proof. So there are two possible nights. Sleeping at Sing Gompa (about 3,330 m on our guide's figure) means day 8 climbs about 1,120 metres from Thulo Syabru and day 9 about 1,050 metres to the lake. Sleeping at Cholangpati (3,654 m) means day 8 climbs 1,444 metres and day 9 726 metres. That is my arithmetic from our own numbers, not a measured profile. The usual night at Sing Gompa is the gentler of the two on day 8, and the guide chooses on the day.

What is the climb from Thulo Syabru like?

Our itinerary gives 8 kilometres in 5 to 6 hours. Counted to Cholangpati, the climb is 1,444 metres, which is 3,654 minus 2,210, or about 240 to 290 metres of height every hour, steep and steady. Counted to Sing Gompa it is about 1,120 metres on our guide's height for the village. As the itinerary tells it, you climb to the Langtang National Park army checkpoint, where permits are checked, reach Daragang after about 30 minutes, then go through hemlock and oak forest and Dhimsa. The text ends at Sing Gompa, "a small village known for its monastery and local cheese production".

What is the walk from Cholangpati or Sing Gompa to Gosainkunda like?

Our itinerary says 11 kilometres in about 5 hours, climbing 726 metres, which is 4,380 minus 3,654, so those figures are for a start from Cholangpati. From Sing Gompa the climb is longer, about 1,050 metres on our guide's height, and I have no measured distance or time for that start. It describes a barren, windswept ridge with fewer trees and more open sky, views of Langtang Himal and Ganesh Himal, and on a clear day the Annapurna range far off to the west. You reach a resting point it calls Laure Binayak, where the path gets steeper for the final climb. The text says that after two hours you reach a chorten with views of waterfalls and lakes, and Saraswati Kunda and Bhairav Kunda, both fed by glacial water from Gosainkunda itself. Then the lake.

That is about 145 metres of net climb an hour, on our guides' hours, not a measured profile.

Is it safe to sleep this high?

This is the part I would read twice. The United States CDC Yellow Book, in its page on high-altitude travel (last updated 23 April 2025), says any unacclimatised traveller going to a sleeping altitude of 2,450 metres or more, and sometimes lower, is at risk of altitude illness. Its advice for going higher is to ascend no more than 500 metres a night in sleeping altitude once above 3,000 metres, and to allow an extra night for every 1,000 metres of sleeping altitude gained.

Measured against that, our itinerary is steeper than the rule of thumb. Night 7 is at 2,210 metres. Night 8 is at Sing Gompa (about 3,330 m, a gain of about 1,120 metres) or Cholangpati (3,654 m, a gain of 1,444). Night 9 is at 4,380, a further 1,050 or 726 metres. Every one of those gains is above 500, and I would rather say so than hide it. The same page says never to ascend to sleep higher with symptoms of altitude illness, however minor, and that acute mountain sickness improves rapidly with descent of 300 metres or more.

On the trail, that means the decision belongs to your guide in the morning, not to the schedule. If you want a gentler profile, ask me about a longer version. I have not priced an extra night in this post, and I will quote it before you decide. Buy your travel insurance at home: our package asks for cover for medical costs and emergency helicopter rescue up to 6,000 metres, and our insurance guide sets out what it must say.

What is it like to stay at Sing Gompa or Cholangpati?

Our itinerary lists a tea house or lodge, with breakfast, lunch and dinner on the tiers that include meals. I could not confirm how many lodges there are at either stop, how many beds, whether there is hot water, heating or a charging point, or what the mobile signal is like, and I do not want to invent any of it for you to plan around. Wikivoyage says a telephone is available at Singh Gompa, and that in peak winter the trails are blocked and the lodges are closed. Our package page says signal is patchy at altitude and that our lead guide stays in daily contact with all trekking teams.

Do I need a permit, and which ones?

Gosainkunda lake is inside Langtang National Park, according to the park authority's own page and to Wikipedia. Which villages on the way up lie inside the park boundary, I could not confirm, and I will not claim it for Sing Gompa or Cholangpati. What our itinerary does say is that the park's army checkpoint comes within the first hour out of Thulo Syabru.

Our permit policy for this route is the Langtang National Park entry fee of NPR 3,000 for foreigners (NPR 1,500 for SAARC citizens), flat, plus the TIMS card at NPR 2,000 (NPR 1,000 for SAARC). These are the Nepal Tourism Board's published figures, read on 4 October 2026. Our package lists the permits as included, and permits need at least 48 hours in government working days, so we ask for passport details early.

A licensed guide and agency-issued TIMS card are required on most trekking routes under the Nepal Tourism Board rule from 31 March 2023; the Everest (Khumbu) region does not enforce it locally, but we always trek with a licensed guide. The Tourism Board's list names the Langtang Gosaikund trek.

The Department of Immigration lists a Rasuwa restricted area (Gosaikunda Rural Municipality ward 1, the northern Tamang Heritage side). OpenStreetMap puts Chandanbari and Laurebina in ward 5. Our package includes no restricted-area permit, but I have not checked ward boundaries on an official map, so ask me if your route differs.

When is the best time, and what about Janai Purnima?

Wikipedia says Janai Purnima falls on the full moon day of the Nepali month of Shrawan and that many pilgrims visit Gosainkunda and bathe in the lake; Wikivoyage says thousands of Hindu pilgrims come to the lake in August. I did not find a source I trust for this year's exact date, so I give none. I could not confirm lodge capacity in festival week. Our own Janai Purnima guide covers the pilgrimage. Wikipedia also says the lake is frozen for six months, October to June, which is why I would not sell the lake in deep winter; read Langtang in November and December before choosing late dates.

Is this side affected by the 2026 flood?

I am not going to state a status, because it would be out of date within days. Our trek starts with the drive to Syabrubesi, so the road matters. Read Is the Langtang trek affected by the Rasuwa flood? and which treks in Nepal are open after the flood first, and message me with your dates before you pay anything.

How much does it cost?

Our current prices for the 13-day trek, per person, are USD 750 Budget, USD 999 Standard and USD 1,999 Luxury, for one traveller or more, with groups of up to twenty. Budget has no meals and no porter, in shared rooms. Standard has all meals, private rooms and one porter for every two trekkers, so a solo traveller has the guide carry up to 10 kg instead. Luxury has all meals with extras and a dedicated porter each. Kathmandu hotels are not included in any trek tier. An extra porter is USD 25 a day, with 13 per cent VAT and a 3.5 per cent bank charge on top.

The deposit is 10 per cent, and the balance is paid in Kathmandu in US dollars or euros, cash or by card, which carries a 3.5 per cent charge. If you cancel, the deposit is not refunded, but you can reschedule free of charge with at least 72 hours' notice to any date within a year. If we cannot run the trip, we refund what you paid less taxes, bank and card charges and any money already spent on permits or flights.

Who should skip this stretch?

Our package grades the whole trek Moderate. Nights 8 and 9 are at roughly 3,330 to 3,654 metres and then 4,380 metres, which by the CDC's rule of thumb is fast. If you have had altitude trouble before, tell me before you book, and read how difficult the Langtang valley trek is as a comparison.

The short version

Night 8 on our 13-day Langtang Gosainkunda trek is usually Sing Gompa (Chandanbari), or Cholangpati at 3,654 metres if you walk faster, and either one is the base for the walk to the lake. Permits are included and we arrange them, and a licensed guide is required and provided. What I could not confirm is where Cholangpati sits on a map and what the lodges offer, so I have not made them up. To talk through this route or the flood position for your dates, message me on WhatsApp on +977 9810351300.

Written by Shreejan Simkhada, CEO of The Everest Holiday, from a family of three generations of family guides. TAAN Member #1586.