Honey Hunting tour always have been tendering the experience of ritualistic vibes involving on adventurous tour on the rural and remote region of the Nepal. Twice a year (spring and autumn) high in the Himalayan foothills of mid Nepal teams of men assemble around cliffs that are habitat to the world’s largest honeybee, Apis laboriosa. As they have for origination, the men come to garner the Himalayan cliff bee’s honey. The harvest ritual, which varies faintly from community to community, begins with a prayer and surrender of flowers, fruits, and rice. Then a fire is lit at the foundation of the cliff to smoke the bees from their honeycombs. From above, a honey hunter descends the cliff harnessed to a ladder by ropes. As his mates secure the rope and ladder from the top and transport tools up down as required, the honey hunter fights defensive bees as he cuts out chunks of honey from the comb. A chance to outlook and experience the traditional honey hunting harvest of the Gurung people is beyond excellence. The Bees Apis Laboriosa and Apis Dorsata are indigenous to the territory and traditional methods of harvesting the honey on vertical cliffs have lingered unchanged for generations. This typical exploration tradition is now promoted as a tourism activity during the hunting period as the Honey Hunting Tour.
Chamje which has been listed as one of the apex adventurous activity on BBC and also ancient folklore that happens to be twice a year and pursued especially by the Gurung tribe who has been hunting the honey produced by wild bee from the bee hive hanging on the gargantuan cliff. Nexus Travels & Tours with connection of Local people in the area is geared up to position the topur for interested adventurer foreign inhabitants and offer the cultural village (Home Stay or Teahouse) tour nearby the spot. We arrange the Honey Hunting Tours in Lamjung close at hand Ghan Pokhara the famous cultural Village, Landruk a gateway of Annapurna area trekking, Nuwakot adjacent to Dhading district and some parts of Gorkha.
Nepal though a small country but is rich in biodiversity and is also a haven for five diverse honey bee species that are distinguished for pollinating delicious honey twice a year. So be part of the adventurous activity engaging on honey hunting tour managed by Nexus Travels & Tours that guides you to the foothills community and mountain side for honey hunting along with local Gurung tribe for which honey hunting is ceremony and inherited from their ancestors with opportunity to obsess the delicious and intoxicating honey created by wild honey bee.
The preamble of non indigenous plant genus and the Eurporean honey bee Apis mellifera have put anxiety on these local bees to compete, and they need to fly further and supplementary distance to exploration their favorite plant species. Tourism in this vicinity helps communities has been safeguarding the flora and fauna, and so gives the bees and local seekers a chance to co-exist and continue. Nexus Travels & Tours will donate a percentage of profits from the tours to local communities who are actively involved and promoting International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) ideas. During the proposed tour you will also be able to witness the spectacular view of peaks like Manaslu, Lamjung Himal, Hiunchuli, Buddha Himal, Annapurna ranges, Dhaulagiri and many more as per the tour you favor.