If you get Thanksgiving week off, here’s how much of Nepal you can really trek

Trek Guide Three days of PTO gets you Poon Hill, eight gets Annapurna Base Camp, and Everest takes eleven. The dates, the flights and the airport days to avoid. By Bishnu Adhikari · Sep 22, 2026 Read the full story

Thanksgiving 2026 falls on Thursday 26 November. With that Thursday and Friday off, three days of PTO buy you nine days away, and about six of those in Nepal: enough for Poon Hill , not for anything high. Eight days of PTO buys two weeks and Annapurna Base… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

How many days you really get in Nepal

Take two days off whatever window you book: one to get there, and part of one to get home. There is no nonstop flight from the United States to Kathmandu, so every itinerary has one stop, usually in the Gulf or Istanbul. Leave the East Coast on a Saturday… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

Nine days off with three days of PTO gets you Poon Hill

With six days on the ground, the right trek is the three-day Poon Hill, which leaves a spare day. Land Monday and sleep. Get to Pokhara on Tuesday; the flight is short and the tourist bus takes most of a day. Walk Wednesday to Friday, then fly back to… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

Fly out on Thanksgiving Day and the airport is nearly empty

Thanksgiving Day itself is the quietest day of the whole holiday period at US airports. On Thanksgiving Day 2025, TSA screened 1,559,165 people, the lowest figure in the ten days around the holiday. Three days later it screened 3,134,613, the most on any day… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

Two weeks and eight days of PTO gets you Annapurna Base Camp

Thirteen days on the ground is enough for Annapurna Base Camp with a day to spare, and I would pick it over Everest for this window. Land Monday, take the bus to Pokhara on Tuesday, and our nine-day itinerary runs Wednesday 25 November to Thursday 3 December… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

Everest Base Camp over Thanksgiving means eleven days of PTO

To do Everest Base Camp properly around Thanksgiving, you need to be away from Saturday 21 November to Wednesday 9 December. That is twelve walking and flying days, one day to recover from the flight out, and two spare days in Kathmandu in case weather holds… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

What late November is like on the trail

Late November brings some of the clearest weather of the year, and cold nights. The monsoon is long over, and Tihar , the last of the autumn festivals, ends on 11 November in 2026, so the October crowds have gone home by the time you arrive. Days on the lower… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

Book in this order, or the dates fall apart

Confirm your PTO first, then the trek, then the international flights. Book flights first and you end up fitting the trek around a routing, which is how people lose the spare day that makes a short trip work. Tell us which days you can be away and we will… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

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