Honey Hunting

Honey Hunting Tour is one of the different Adventure tours that give you chance to experience and taste traditional honey hunting activities in Nepal. There are more then five different spices of Wild Honeybee we found in Nepal. The wild honeybees make hanging beehives on the rock. This is challenging adventure honey hunting tour necessary knowledge of rock climbing, hanging, rope climbing, brave and experiencing the traditional honey harvest of Brahamin person. Honey hunting is a tradition twice (spring and autumn) a year to collect the wild honey from the hive hanging on a rock hill.

Traditional Honey Hunting: The traditional honey hunting activities is an Adventure and challenging tour in the world. The honey hunters are a tribe of Hilly region  Magar and in Nepal who follow the tradition generations of honey hunting.

The Ancient time people use honey for their sweets and Ayurveda medicine. Extracting honey from rock bees that live in steep slop is an age-old tradition. Some of the indigenous  Magar  of the Seti Gandaki and Kaligahdaki valley in and the cliffs in Annapurna region and Dhorpatan have a notable presence of wild bee, which makes hive on the vertical slopes of these cliffs. Hunting cliff honey is dangerous activity.

Honey Hunting Tour is very old and traditional activities in the hilly region and mountain areas of Nepal. In the past, people used to organize the religious ceremony before collecting honey to protect themselves from the attack of honeybees and any misshapen. The locals celebrate the honey hunting as a festival by offering flowers, grains, and sheep to God before shooting. The worship is organize to respect the hard work of honeybees and their contribution, to the survival of human beings. Everyone is thrilled to watch honey hunters at work. Taste the wild honey hunting tour is doing by well experience villagers who hang from cliffs as tall as 290 m with the help of homemade traditional ropes and wood ladders. The lead honey hunter collects honey in the bucket from the beehives and passes down to another person, you can taste the wild honey. The wild honey is used for a medical purposes which still exists and has medicinal value with a great deal of money in the international market.               Nepal Honey Hunting Tour is part of traditional livehood, that is why it is more interesting for tourists to know the Nepali traditional honey hunting knowledge and skill. The trekking routes to and from the honey bee hives are exciting and breathtaking. Honey hunting in Nepal also enables visitors to take in the beauty and magnificence of the Nepal landscape and wildlife. At the time, tourists can experience the culture. Thus, it adds more color to our delight. Honey hunting tour is the best opportunity to view and experience the traditional method of wild honey harvesting and hunting which is worth a visit.

Honey Hunting Tour Information                                                                                                                                                        Tour Duration: 05 days from arrival to departure.                                                                                                                                            Tour visiting Places:  Kathmandu to Lamagaun Jaspur Village to Kathmandu.                                                                          Transportation: Tourist Car/Jeep depends on the group size.