Vimal Kumar Thapa
Naturalist, guide, and the person who replies when you write to us.
A guide who reads the landscape.
Vimal grew up in the foothills of the Annapurnas, in a village where the forest was both kitchen and classroom. He started guiding in his early twenties and has spent three decades walking Nepal's long-distance trails — from the jungle margins of Chitwan to the Tibetan-border villages of Upper Mustang.
He founded Nature Treks because the trekking industry of the 2000s left him uneasy: too many crowded teahouses, too few guides who could tell a Himalayan Monal from a Kalij Pheasant, and too little of the money staying in the villages doing the hard work.
Credentials
Trained naturalist
Licensed guide (Nepal Academy of Tourism & Hotel Management). Works alongside Bird Conservation Nepal on field programs.
Author & speaker
Contributing author to two regional birding guides; regular speaker at responsible-travel forums in South Asia.
Conservation leader
President of Bird Conservation Nepal (BCN). Leads bird research, community engagement, and habitat protection across the country's mountain and forest regions.
Want to plan a trip with Vimal?
Drop a note — every enquiry comes straight to him.