Nepal Trekking from Malaysia: MYR Prices, Halal Food and Guide

Last updated 7 October 2026. Ringgit amounts use the European Central Bank reference rates of 6 October 2026, US$1 = MYR 4.085, which move daily. You pay us in US dollars or euros, not ringgit. Kuala Lumpur fares and the full Everest total are on our Kuala Lumpur cost page; this page is about choosing a trek.

If you have climbed Kinabalu, you know the joy of a hard day on a mountain. Nepal asks for something different: more days, a colder and thinner climate and a slower pace. That makes the choice of trek the most important decision you will take, and cost second. Here are six of ours, put side by side in ringgit, with a view on who each one suits.

The six treks in ringgit

Prices are per person for one to four trekkers, rounded to the nearest 10 ringgit, from our booking system on 7 October 2026. They hold for 2027. Groups of five or more pay less, and a solo trekker can book.

• Ghorepani Poon Hill, 6 days: Budget MYR 2,040, Standard MYR 3,060, Luxury MYR 5,040. Graded easy. The highest point is Poon Hill at 3,210 m, and the reward is a sunrise over Dhaulagiri and Annapurna.
• Mardi Himal, 7 days: Budget MYR 1,850, Standard MYR 3,470, Luxury MYR 4,540. Graded moderate. A ridge walk to Mardi Himal Base Camp at 4,500 m, with Machhapuchhre close by.
• Langtang Valley, 8 days: Budget MYR 1,490, Standard MYR 2,660, Luxury MYR 4,090. Graded moderate. A valley north of Kathmandu, with the Tserko Ri viewpoint at about 4,984 m as its highest point.
• Annapurna Base Camp, 9 days: Budget MYR 2,040, Standard MYR 3,260, Luxury MYR 5,720. Graded moderate. The base camp is at 4,130 m, inside a ring of peaks.
• Everest Base Camp, 12 days: Budget MYR 5,710, Standard MYR 10,210, Luxury MYR 20,420. Graded strenuous. You sleep at 5,164 m in Gorak Shep and climb Kala Patthar, 5,545 m.
• Manaslu Circuit, 12 days: Budget MYR 3,260, Standard MYR 6,530, Luxury MYR 8,570. Graded very strenuous. A restricted-area circuit that crosses Larkya La at 5,160 m.

Which one first?

A climber who has done a long day on Kinabalu will manage the walking on any of these. What is new is how long the days repeat. On every trek you walk five to seven hours a day for a week or more, and the question is whether your body will adjust to height, which fitness alone cannot answer. For a first visit with a week of leave, Poon Hill or Mardi Himal is a sensible start. With nine days, Annapurna Base Camp takes you to the 4,000 m mark. Everest is the one for twelve free days and a patient pace, and Manaslu is best kept for a second trip.

The route pages show every day, and our guide to how fit you need to be describes the training.

What the days look like

Take the Everest trek as the example. You start walking by 7:00 or 8:00, trek for three to four hours, have a long lunch in a teahouse and walk two or three more hours to the night's lodge, arriving by mid-afternoon. Your main bag goes with the porter and you carry a 20 to 30 litre day pack. Drink boiled or purified water and never untreated tap or river water. We give you a Nepali SIM in Kathmandu, and the signal is reliable up to Namche Bazaar and weaker above. Lukla flights depend on weather and can be delayed for days. A helicopter is the fallback, typically US$500 to US$1,000 a person with five sharing, so leave one or two buffer days before an international flight home.

From tropical heat to a cold night

The biggest surprise for a Malaysian is the cold, more than the climb. On the Everest route, autumn nights at height fall to about minus 10 degrees Celsius and winter nights can reach minus 20. Pack in layers, with a warm hat and gloves, and let us lend the down jacket and the sleeping bag rated to minus 15, plus a duffel bag for each trekker. Your boots and rain jacket are yours to bring. Break your boots in at home on stairs and slopes.

Prayer, fasting and food

Lodge menus range from dal bhat to pasta, soup and pancakes. Above 4,000 m our guides advise against heavy meat dishes. Halal meat is not something I can guarantee on the trail, so expect vegetarian meals. Tell your guide your prayer times and he will plan the stops around them. There is more in our halal trekking guide.

My advice is not to fast above 4,000 m. The body needs water and fuel there. If your dates fall in Ramadan, choose Poon Hill or Mardi Himal, or move the trip.

Cover for the trek

Check the cover before you pay for the trek. Whether you buy conventional insurance or takaful, the certificate has to name trekking to 6,000 m for Everest, Manaslu or Langtang (5,000 m is enough for Annapurna Base Camp, Mardi Himal and Poon Hill) and include helicopter evacuation, a very large bill if you cover it yourself, along with illness. Our page on helicopter cover to 6,000 m sets out the wording to look for. The Malaysia cost page has the takaful detail. Send me your certificate and I will tell you honestly if anything is missing.

When to go, and the Nepali calendar

October to mid November is the clear season and the busiest. March to May is warmer and the rhododendrons bloom in the lower forests. December to February is quiet and very cold at height, and suits Poon Hill and Mardi Himal. June to September is monsoon.

Two Nepali festivals affect dates. Dashain runs 17 to 23 October 2026 and Tihar runs 8 to 12 November, and during both the government offices are shut, so permits take 48 hours of working time. At peak times the Lukla flights can be moved to Manthali, a road trip of four to five hours from Kathmandu that starts with a pick-up between midnight and 2 am.

Nepal is 2 hours 15 minutes behind Malaysia all year. Malaysian passports are not on the immigration department's list of twelve nationalities that must apply in advance, so the visa is bought on arrival at Tribhuvan airport, US$30 for 15 days, US$50 for 30 days (about MYR 205) or US$125 for 90 days. See the visa on arrival guide.

What the tiers change

Three tiers, one route. Budget leaves meals, rooms and your pack to you: rooms are shared, food is bought as you go and you carry your own bag. Standard feeds you, gives you a private room and shares one porter between two people, so someone trekking alone has no porter and gives up to 10 kg to the guide. Luxury adds a dedicated porter, a deluxe room with its own bathroom, fruit, nuts, unlimited soft drinks and helicopter flights to and from Lukla on the Everest trek. The licensed guide, permits and the loan of a down jacket and a minus 15 sleeping bag are in every tier. No tier has a single supplement, and Kathmandu hotels are paid for separately.

How to pay

The deposit is 10 per cent. The remaining 90 per cent is paid in Kathmandu, in US dollars or euros, in cash at no charge or by card with 3.5 per cent added. We do not accept ringgit or rupees. Cancel and the deposit is kept, with nothing else returned, but you may move the trek to any date in the next year without paying anything, provided we have 72 hours of notice (seven days for Tibet, Kailash and restricted areas). If we call off the trip, you get your payments back minus taxes, bank and card charges and whatever has already gone on permits or flights.

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See also Everest Base Camp cost from Malaysia, permits and fees and the Everest itinerary.

If you want a plan for your own dates and group, message me on WhatsApp +977 9810351300 or [email protected].

Shreejan Simkhada, CEO of The Everest Holiday. TAAN 1586.