Honey Hunting Tour in Nepal

Honey Hunting Tour in Nepal is one of the most amazing adventure tours bringing you close to the new experience of amazing and extraordinary procedure of cliff honey hunting. Only people expert in rock climbing can do this hunting. The wild honeybees make the beehives on the rocks on cliff making it impossible to reach without climbing the cliff. The interesting thing about this hunting is the use of traditional practice of climbing with the help of bamboo ladder or rope by which the lead honey hunter collects honey in bucket and passes down to another person for collection. The process is usually done in the morning when the weather is cold enough, as the bees are less active in cold and leave the hives easily. Nepal has a diversified range of honey bees. From farming honey bees to the cliff honey bees, Nepal has around 5 species of honey bees amongst which large number of honey and wax is produced from indigenous honeybees, mainly Apis Dorsata and Apis Laborisa. These bees are also responsible for pollination of mountain crops and wild flowers. Nepal team of men gathers round the cliffs high in the Himalayan foothills of Central Nepal twice a year for honey hunting. The cliffs are the home to world’s largest honeybee, Apis Laborious. The tradition of harvesting the honey has been going since generations. There is always a harvest ritual before harvesting and that differ slightly from community. The initial prayer and sacrifice of flowers and, fruits and rice as a good start to the harvest and then they lit fire at the base of the cliff to smoke bees off their honey combs. A hunter descends the cliff harnessed to a ladder by ropes secured by his mate from the top and fighting with the territorial bees, the hunter cuts chunk by chunk off the hives. The chance to view this traditional and courageous practice of honey hunting harvest is a big worth. The tradition has been same for generations as the bees Apis Laborious and Apis Dorsata are indigenous in the region, providing people with honey on same basis and the traditional method of hunting unchanged for generations.