Reducing Pollution and Environmental Impacts:
- Don’t defecate near water sources use as temp toilets
- Dump garbage only at proper rubbish bins or pits
- Stay eat in lodges that cook on gas/kerosene and have solar showers, while you are doing tea house trek.
- Burry/empty your toilets in non polluted sites while you are doing camping trek using with own sleeping or toilets tents.
- Wear warm clothes rather than having the rooms heated
- Keep 10% opened window at night in your sleeping room to supply fresh oxygen in higher elevation, where less vegetation are above 4000m.
- On high altitudes (4000m) do not even throw away biodegradable junk
- Carry out what u carry in
- Take your empty batteries home
- Do not disturb wildlife
- Do not hurt or remove animals and plants
- Do not buy items made from wildlife parts skins or boons.
- Don’t accept “free” plastic bags
Important to take along:
- Copy of passport, travel insurance
- Credit card (in case of emergency or evacuation)
- Iodine tablets, water bottle, sunscreen, long-sleeved shirt, hats for sun or cold lip balm, insect repellent etc.
- Warm clothes, thermal underwear, gloves, good boots, trekking pole (optional) gears for comfort walk etc.
