HIMALAYAN ENCOUNTERS IS AN EXCITING, ADVENTUROUS CONCEPT OF TRAVEL IN NEPAL Services offered are extensive and the exceptional standard has been a benchmark since the company’s incorporation in 1984. Comfort should not usually be seen as an end in itself here in Nepal, and yet the arrangements for accommodation and in-country travel are the very best of their type. And whatever the category and trip style you select, your personal well-being, both physical and material as well as intellectual and spiritual, is of our primary concern. Yet that is far from the whole picture; for Himalayan Encounters is steeped in the traditions, the heritage, the culture, the values, the beliefs of the people of Nepal. This reality is our everyday life. Here are the cacophony and carvings of temples and stupas, the profane music and dance of wild and colourful festivals and the enchanted mantras and the Thangkas of Buddhist fine art. We can also truthfully speak of real commitment to carbon-neutral policies within Nepal, to real evidence of ‘responsible tourism’, sustainable practices and what we describe as ‘Tourism in the Community and the Community in Tourism’. However all that is a bit of a mouthful, so we best describe our efforts simply as PURE ADVENTURE.