Nepal’s first trail centre

Phaplu Trails

Steep loam, high-altitude shuttles, punchy climbs, Mani walls, shrines, forest singletrack and proper enduro trails in the Everest region.

Phaplu was where the trip first opened up: less expedition suffering, more “hang on, this is a trail centre in the Himalayas”.

50km
marked
trails

The trail centre

A practical rider guide: what it is, why it exists, and what the trails feel like.

A trail centre where you really don’t expect one

Tangi, a French ex-XC racer, came to Nepal for altitude training and never properly went home. Over time, that obsession turned into a proper Solukhumbu trail base.

For us, that meant riding steep hillside tracks that felt almost BC-like in places — loamy, technical, physical — but with Mani walls, shrines, village edges and Himalayan forest giving it a completely different flavour.

“It felt like someone had hidden a proper enduro playground halfway up a Himalayan hillside.”

What the riding felt like

Less exact mileage, more trail character, logistics, terrain and future-rider expectations.

Terrain

Steep, loamy, physical

Technical hillside tracks, forest sections and enough gradient to keep it spicy.

Culture

Mani walls and shrines

Trail riding threaded through villages, prayer walls, religious sites and local tracks.

Logistics

Guided and shuttled

Shuttles helped, but the altitude and climbing made sure it still felt earned.