Just imagine waking up in the comfort of a real bed. You're staring at Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse and Ama Dablam. Nipping into your en suite bathroom, you take a hot shower and you try your best not to lose the soap as you're gawping at outrageous snowy peaks through the bathroom window. Then enjoy a hearty breakfast....still gawping. Of course you saw it all the night before too whilst having dinner (and perhaps a cheeky glass of wine) before retiring to the comfort of your bedroom and admiring the lofty Himalayas, now dark silhouettes beneath the even darker, but star filled sky. To top it off you've got electricty to charge your camera/smart phone and just might even have a mobile signal or wifi so you can really annoy your friends back at home with 'live' images, facetweets etc. Now search the online dictionary and rewrite the definition of 'smug'...and why not? You still had to trek there, so you did earn it. And.....yes....the above scenario is reality. It's not a dream. Luxury treks in Nepal are a reality, but the walking doesn't change!

The advent of a new breed of higher standard luxury trekking lodges in Nepal is great. In fact we'd describe them as 'amazing', particularly when you take into account that they are days/weeks from the nearest road head. Just how did they get the beds, toilets and the like up there?????

Primarily in the Everest and Annapurna regions there are now a number of very good luxury lodges for trekkers. So no camping and no sleeping bags required.