When you arrive in Syapru Besi there are plenty of lodges to stay. Directly at the bus stop you have Potala Guest House. The rooms are neat and have electricity. Although there is no possibility to recharge you batteries for your digital camera in your room. The Guest House has two buildings on each side of the road one. One has a hot Solar Shower if you want one. The other building has a cold shower and toilet on the balcony.
If you want some more luxury go for the Lasha Hotel. Here you find an
inside hot shower with washing table. The inside toilet even has a flusher. The people are really friendly and the food is good.
This also counts for Potala Guest House.
After a good meal, sleep and breakfast it's time to explore the valley.
When you leave for your trekking you probably get an business card of the hotel to recommend the hotel to other tourist and a card from a hotel somewhere in the valley, run by their family.
Take the stairs down to the river, just before the last shops of the first part of the village. After passing a school, and a playing field (picture on the right) you arrive to a Langtang National Park check point where you sign in and show your trekking permit.
There are two paths, one uphill and one that follows the river. On the way up, you probably want to choose for the route that follows the river, because this trail ascents slowly, making it a nice first trekking day. The uphill trail starts with a steep ascent for several hours, when it remains pretty flat and even has a slight descend.
Most
trekking guides give Lama Hotel (2340 mt) as a first day destination. The trip
to Lama Hotel
takes you about 7/8 hours. Lama Hotel is a small village with only guesthouses.
The guesthouses in Lama Hotel are pretty comfortable and most of them have hot solar
showers
and toilets inside like Hotel Jungle View . If you like to experience a little bit more of the Langtang valley
life you can sleep in a guesthouse just before or after the villages.
Maybe your map doesn't show lodges or guesthouses in or between every village,
but this is not true; you can sleep in every village, and even between
the villages there are a lot of lodges. Most of the houses in the Valley were
turned into lodges in the last couple of years. (Which is a little bit sad, it
makes the valley like one big resort, and because there are so many lodges, just
few of them can make a good livin' out of it.) The longest time to walk without
seeing a lodge would be about 2 hours. After the last village of Langtang
Valley; Kyanjin Gompa you won't find any lodges and you need a tent, fuel,
cooking equipment, food and liquids to trek further.
The described trekking follows the lower trail near the Langtang Khola.
After signing in at the National Park Checkpoint you cross the bridge over the
Bhote Koshi river and turn right entering the old part of Syaprhu Besi.
After a few hundred meters, you cross another bridge, this time over the Langtang Khola.
Over the bridge you turn left and then it's just straight ahead, following the river all the way to Kyanjin Gompa.
On the first day most of the time you walk through the forest. You might see
some rare birds and monkeys and a lot of flowers, bamboo and hemp. As in Katmandu, a
lot of local people are offering you Nepali Hash.
After some time maybe two hours you cross a bridge and there are some small lodges where you can drink or eat something.
Continuing
walking you get to place where the trail makes a short round through the river.
The path is constructed with wood and stones. At the end of the path there are
two lodges where you can rest and eat something.
From here it's about one, one and a half hour to bamboo lodge. Near bamboo lodge you can find some hot springs.
At bamboo lodge you have nice view on the river and a lot of rocks.
After bamboo lodge you walk for about one hour to a brigde where you cross the river. At the the other side of the bridge there is a lodge. From this lodge it's about a half hour up to Langtang view hotel.
Langtang Valley Trekking
Syapru Besi - Langtang View Hotel
Langtang View Hotel - Riverside Lodge
Riverside Lodge - Langtang Village