Hiking to chisapani (A must do hike)

TL;DR
Chisapani is very expensive but it is even more expensive for foreign tourist. I would highly recommend to take some dry foods from home.
It took us 7hrs to reach chisapani from sundarijal, and 5 hrs to get back to sundarijal from chisapani.
Warm clothes is a must because it gets frigid at night and in morning.
Great view of mountain (Langtang, annapurna range, MT everest, ganesh himal)
Ever wondered how a sky full of stars looks like?  Get out of the lodge or hotel in somewhere between 11pm - 3am and look up at the sky.
Safe for solo hike too.

price list(this does not apply to foreign tourist)
plain tea Rs 20
hard boiled eggs Rs 30
plain pankcakes Rs 60
plain dinner Rs 200
room Rs 800 - 500
marijuana Rs 250
coconut biscuit Rs 25
jumbo wai wai noodles Rs 150
local alcohol Rs 100

Link to all the pics

About 8 months ago, I heard about this place via my colleague, then I did some research but could not find much resources on the internet however the ones I found were enough for me to add this place in my wish list. I was planning to go alone but a friend of mine showed interest in going there too so I formed a group of 6 peeps and we left for sundarijal at 7 am from old bus park.

Selfie from the roof of the bus

To make our ride up to sundarijaal adventurous we traveled on the roof of the bus. Since, I had the responsibility of taking care of expenses I had to pay Rs 250 for the fare.

View from the hotel we had our breakfast at

After reaching sundarijal we took a light breakfast (6 eggs, 6 doughnuts, 2 plate fried chickpea, 1 plate fried aloo, 3 bowl of tarkari ) spending a total of Rs 300 and resumed our hike afterwards.

It felt really great to see these huge metal pipes in reality than read about them in the blogs I found.

Rainbow

Entering Shivapuri National Park

To start our chispani hike, I had to pay Rs 50 just to enter the hiking trail.

We swam in this river

First visual of the mountain

We stopped for chyang in one of the hotel along the way and the owner was very gregarious. He shared how devastating the earthquake was to him as he had loose his house. Up to this point, foods are very cheap compared to chisapani. We paid a total of Rs 135 and they also filled the remaining chyang in their own bottles and did not charged us for it and they also filled our water bottle with drinking water. He then showed us the way to chisapani and we left. We got so excited when we had our first visual of the mountain.

The only river to accompany in the whole hiking trail

First visual of Chisapani

Walking for almost 6 hrs we were so exhausted and hungry. All the way we talked about how tasty the fried chicken in the dinner was yesterday. When we saw hotels at Chisapani, we all got excited.

Mountains as seen from Chisapani

Destruction caused by earthquake

After reaching there, we sat down for tea and 2 packets of biscuits for each of us as there was nothing much to eat at the hotel. A packet of biscuit cost Rs 15 and plain tea cost Rs 25. We then found a cheap lodge. I paid Rs 500 for a room, Rs 60/pancake, Rs 30 for an egg and Rs 200/person for dinner. We had brought 6 cans of tuna with us so dinner was really like a feast.

Sun rise in morning

Again, mountains

It was a very fun hike up to chisapani but there is a lot of pollution along the trail. Well the good thing is we completed this whole hike in just Rs 6000 and staying in budget.