Everest Base Camp Trekking

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Everest Base Camp Trekking Highlights
  • Explore UNESCO World Heritage sites in Kathmandu valley with your professional guide 
  • Three star accommodation in Kathmandu and local tea houses in Trekking days 
  • About 35 minutes scenic and adventure flight to and from Lukla 
  • See stunning Himalayas views including Khumbu icefall 
  • Direct touch with typical peoples, their cultures and customs
  • Reach at Base Camp of Mount Everest (5,360m) and climb Kalapathar (5,545m)

Everest Base Camp Trekking is the most spectacular and picturesque trekking destination in the Nepalese Himalaya. Eleven days of hiking in the Himalayas is an exploration of real Sherpa village at high altitude land. Discover old monasteries, meet real welcomed peoples, and acclimatize your body in the high altitude of the Everest region. Reach at the base camp of the world’s highest peak Mount Everest and get a panoramic view from Kalapathar (5,545m) is the real step of reaching like heaven. Our 16 days journey includes historical exploration at Kathmandu. Our dedicated team provides you memorial visit at the UNESCO heritage site of Kathmandu and provides you prompt information about Everest Base Camp Trekking before you start. Our trekking guide and supporter than start to lead you to the Everest Base Camp. You feel much comfortable with our friendly and knowledgeable guide. They will help you to learn an interesting part of local customs in typical Buddhist and Hindu traditions.

Trekking to Everest Base Camp is staying in local tea houses. You will forget all tiredness after sitting in hot Sherpa dining and conversing with other travelers every evening. Besides that scenic mountains including Mount Everest is visible every day. Two days of acclimatization and hiking activities at Namche and Dingboche is more helpful for your body acclimatization in high land. Almost a full day hiking to Everest Base Camp from Gorakshep and early morning hike to Kalapathar for a panoramic view of the Himalayas is the success of your trekking in Everest. You can view over 8000 meter Himalayas in front of your face from Kalapathar. Mount Everest (8848), Mount Nuptse (7861m), Mount Lhotse (8516m), Mount Pumori (7161m), Ama Dablam (6812m) and Khumbu glacier. Nepal Highland Treks offer group trek to Everest Base Camp. We can customize our trekking itinerary as per your requirement if you choose your private trekking plan. We also have put one more extra day at the end of trekking which is a spare day in case flight delay or cancel from Lukla while going and coming back.

Suggestion from us about Everest Base camp Trekking

Everest Base camp Trekking is high altitude trekking area, so that carefully acclimatization of your body is important. We have put two days acclimatization days on the way. This helps you to make your trekking comfortable and success. Trekkers also have option to choose Luxury way to trek Everest Base Camp. This is to choose luxury lodges to overnight, hire personal supporter and Helicopter back instead of trekking same way down to Lukla.

Plan Everest Base Camp Trekking with your good equipments. Temperature around Everest Base Camp is regularly dropped below freezing and days are normally windy. You do not need to bring all equipments from your home, there are good shops to buy or taking it in hire around Thamel Kathmandu is possible. Trekking with your professional guide is much important in the Himalayas. It is high altitude trekking and guiding professional way leads your trip successful. Let us organize your trekking to Everest Base camp in professional way. Your trekking can be combining with some other sector of Everest region. Gokyo Lake, Renjola Pass, Chhola Pass and Kongmala pass. Peak climbing of Iland peak, Lobuche peak is also possible to add in your trekking itinerary. You also can skip flight to Lukla and trekking via Salleri.

Single trekker for Everest Base Camp

Single trekker trekking to Everest Base Camp, can choose own date and have easy customization in the plan. As per the cost we are providing in our page for the single trekker, it is trekking with one staff. He can be a porter guide leading entire trip. Single trekkers also can choose both staffs personal guide and porter. Single trekker also can get accommodation easily up to Dingboche. Overnight stay at Lobuche and in Gorakhshep can be different situation, depend on the current situation single may share room with other.

Join Small group Trekking to Everest Base camp

We also can provide you our fixed departure dates to Join EBC trekking in reasonable cost. this is more suitable for individual who are planning to trek alone. You should not trek alone in high mountain region but with professsional guide. For your safety and memorial trek, join authorized trekking company, trek with professional guide and porters.  

Everest Base Camp Trekking Itinerary
  • Day 01:Arrival at TIA airport of Kathmandu. Transfer to Hotel and Overnight 1350m
  • Day 02:Day in Kathmandu. Sightseeing and trip preparation. overnight at Hotel
  • Day 03:Fly to Lukla (2,860m) and trek to Phakding (2,652m) 3/4 hours. Overnight at tea house
  • Day 04:Trek Phakding to Namche Bazar (3,440m) 6/7 Hours. Overnight at tea house
  • Day 05:Acclimatization at Namche. Hike to Everest view hotel (3,880m) and back to Namche for overnight
  • Day 06:Trek Namche to Tengboche (3,860m) 5/6 hours. Overnight at tea house
  • Day 07:Trek Tengboche to Dingboche (4,410m) 5/6 hours. Overnight at tea house
  • Day 08:Acclimatization in Dingboche. Hiking around and overnight
  • Day 09:Trek Dingboche to Lobuche (4,910m) 4/5 hours. Overnight at tea house
  • Day 10:Trek Lobuche to Everest Base Camp (5,360) and back to Gorakhshep (5,180m) for overnight. 7/8 hours
  • Day 11:Climb Kalapathar at early in the morning (5,545m) and trek down to Pheriche (4210m) 7 hours. Overnight at tea house
  • Day 12:Trek Pheriche to Namche (3410m) 8/9 hours. Overnight at tea house
  • Day 13:Trek Namche to Lukla (2860m) 6/7 Hours. Overnight at tea house
  • Day 14:Fly back to Kathmandu and transfer to Hotel. Rest
  • Day 15:An extra day in Kathmandu. Relax or choose your activities
  • Day 16:Departure and farewell
  • Day 01:Arrival at TIA airport of Kathmandu. Transfer to Hotel and Overnight 1350m

    Representative from Nepal Highland Treks pick up you from International airport and transfer to Hotel. If you get time, we will discuss about your trip and check your trekking gears. Overnight at Hotel

  • Day 02:Day in Kathmandu. Sightseeing and trip preparation. overnight at Hotel

    After your breakfast in Hotel, our tour guide will lead you to sightseeing at UNESCO heritage sites of Kathmandu valley. Bhaktapur Durbar Squire (Old King palace with arts and architecture), Bauddhanath Stupa (Biggest Buddhist Stupa) and Pashupatinath temple (A biggest Hindu temple). Come back to hotel and final preparation of your trekking.   

  • Day 03:Fly to Lukla (2,860m) and trek to Phakding (2,652m) 3/4 hours. Overnight at tea house

    Early in the morning we drive to domestic airport for your flight to Lukla. It is early morning flight about 35 minutes. Scenic flight with tiny aircraft takes off you at Hillary airport (Lukla). Introduce with your porter. After managing your luggage, start walking toward Phakding. The trail follows the bank of the Dudhkoshi River. Easy and flat walking takes only around 4 hours. 

  • Day 04:Trek Phakding to Namche Bazar (3,440m) 6/7 Hours. Overnight at tea house

    After your breakfast start trekking to Namche Bazar (Biggest town in Everest region). We pass big suspension bring at the beginning. Than our trail become slightly up hills. Route is passing through alpine forest along with Dudhkoshi River. We also pass Benkar village, Monjo village and jorsalle on the way. After having our lunch, we start tough up hills walking and reach Namche.

  • Day 05:Acclimatization at Namche. Hike to Everest view hotel (3,880m) and back to Namche for overnight

    It is acclimatization day and we take hiking tour around. Hike to Everest view hotel and Khumjung village. Visit local monasteries and Hillary school. It is pleasant day to have your lunch at Khumjung village with front view of Mount Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, Thamserku, Amadablam and others. Come back to Namche. Walking around in Namche get more refresh

  • Day 06:Trek Namche to Tengboche (3,860m) 5/6 hours. Overnight at tea house

    We trek an easy way with front view of panoramic mountain up to Phunki Thanga, small River side village. From here, trekking route start to be up hills. It contains some of the major ascend toward Tengboche. Tengboche is famous with Tengboche monastery and it is one of the largest monastery in Everest region. Monastery open from 3 pm and it is good visit at their evening chanting by lamas

  • Day 07:Trek Tengboche to Dingboche (4,410m) 5/6 hours. Overnight at tea house

    Trekking through Rhododendron forest reach at Deboche village. After Diboche valley reach at Pangboche village which is having biggest settlement of Sherpa peoples. We still have good view of Mount Everest, Lhotse and Amadablam. Trekking trail than follow through upper Pangboche for exploring an oldest pangboche monastery. After walking some minor ascends, we can see picturesque village of Dingboche with beautiful potato fields.  

  • Day 08:Acclimatization in Dingboche. Hiking around and overnight

    It is good to have acclimatized here before you reach at Everest Base Camp. Instead of staying inactively, we make hiking around the valley. We climb up behind the valley. It is good view of some 8000 miter Himalayas and several other climbing peaks. Instead of hiking long, we back to lodge and take rest for tomorrow’s ascent. 

  • Day 09:Trek Dingboche to Lobuche (4,910m) 4/5 hours. Overnight at tea house

    It is short hiking at high altitude. We start after your breakfast in Dingboche. After walking around three hours in wide valley we reach at Duglha. You’re walking than reach some tough ascending. You may feel hard to breathe as it is thinner air in high altitude. You will reach Lobuche. Lobushe is small settlement with fewer tea houses only. You have to be prepared with chilly night.

  • Day 10:Trek Lobuche to Everest Base Camp (5,360) and back to Gorakhshep (5,180m) for overnight. 7/8 hours

    Day of reaching at base camp of highest peak of the earth, you are at the day of reaching your dream. It is better to start trekking as earlier as possible after your breakfast. The trekking trail to Everest Base Camp is not hard but it is continuously ascending and descending at glacier rocky trail. Everest base Camp is extremely beautiful. Panaromic Mountains including Everest is surroundings. We will come up to near from Khumbu Glacier and see icefall from slopes of Mount Everest. We than come back to Gorakhshep for our overnight

  • Day 11:Climb Kalapathar at early in the morning (5,545m) and trek down to Pheriche (4210m) 7 hours. Overnight at tea house

    We prepare with our small bag with hot drinking water and some nuts. It is about one and half hours climbing. When we start, it is dark and chilly. Get sunrise view and panoramic mountain views which is probably the best view ever in this trekking. We come down to Gorakhshep and have breakfast. Hike back to Pheriche for overnight

  • Day 12:Trek Pheriche to Namche (3410m) 8/9 hours. Overnight at tea house

    Most of the way is downhill from Pheriche to Phunki Thanga. We can choose either Tengboche or Phunki Thanga for our lunch. Small ascend involve after Phunki Thanga to the top. Again an hour downhill reaches Namche. You can feel more relaxed at Namche having nice walking soundings. Namche is having some of the goods cafes, shops, and restaurants

  • Day 13:Trek Namche to Lukla (2860m) 6/7 Hours. Overnight at tea house

    Today is quite long walking down and flat land. It is same way back as we crossed Jorsalle, Manjo, Benkar, Phakding and other small villages on the way. From Jorsalle we cross area of Everest National park. Enjoy your walking with several suspension bring over Dhudhkoshi river

  • Day 14:Fly back to Kathmandu and transfer to Hotel. Rest

    Fly early in the morning from Lukla to Kathmandu. You can view Scenic Mountain and green hills from tiny flight. Drive from Kathmandu domestic airport and check in hotel. Nepal Highland Treks invite you to have together dinner in typical Nepali cultural restaurant. Share your experience of Everest Base camp trekking

  • Day 15:An extra day in Kathmandu. Relax or choose your activities

    A reserve day in Kathmandu is for relaxing after your long days trekking. You still can choose some other activities around Kathmandu valley. Otherwise you have good walking around Thamel to have shopping souvenirs for your relative and friends.  

  • Day 16:Departure and farewell

    It is normally to be at International airport 3 hours before your flight time. It only takes 20 minutes drive to reach Airport from Thamel. We manage transportation for your final departure

Cost Details
Includes
  • Airport picks up and drops arrangement
  • 4 nights’ accommodation in Kathmandu on twin sharing with breakfast
  • Sightseeing tour in Kathmandu valley with Guide, transporation and entrance fees  
  • Everest Trekking permit and TIMS card
  • Flight ticket of Kathmandu – Lukla – Kathmandu
  • Accommodation in tea house on twin sharing during trekking (Room with attached bathrooms are provided in Lukla, Namche and in Phakding)  
  • Three times foods during trekking (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner) including tea and coffee  
  • An English speaking trekking guide and supporter (2 peoples = 1 supporter) with their foods, accommodation, insurance, equipment. 
  • For a single trekker, there will be only one staff as Guide and Porter
  • Emergency rescue management, First Aid kit
  • Duffel bag to put your stuffs and handover it to Porter
  • Warm down sleeping bag in returnable base if you need 
  • One evening dinner at authentic Nepali cultural restaurant
  • Government taxes and official service charge 
Excludes
  • Lunch and dinner while at Kathmandu
  • Bar bills, soft drinks/ bottled drinks including drinking water
  • Hot shower, battery charges, communication cost and internet at local tea houses
  • Personal equipment, personal insurance, medical expenses, cost of emergency rescue in case of need
  • Nepal entry visa (USD 30 per person for a month multiple visa, USD 100 per person for 3 months multiple visa) you can get on arrival visa.
  • International air fair
  • More than 3 cups of hot drinks per day
  • Accommodation upgrading (more than 3 star hotel in Kathmandu) and Deluxe tea houses on the way 
  • Extra activities mentioned than in our itinerary and cost including
  • Tipping to staffs 

- You also can combine your trekking itinerary with some of beautiful and adventurous route of Everest region. Gokyo Lake, Cho La pass, Renjo La pass, Kongma La pass or include some climbing peak. Island peak and Lobuche peak.  

Price & Availability

Our fixed departure dates of Everest Base Camp Trekking can be customize. We have lot other fixed departure dates. You can choose your own date if you are doing private trekking. You are not really need to join with the group for this trekking. Joining in our fixed departure dates for single travelers may worth. 

Useful Information

Accommodation in the trip

Our package is including 4 nights hotel in Kathmandu. It is 3 star category hotels with breakfast and twin sharing. Accommodation in entire trekking is in local tea houses (Local guest house) on twin sharing. You will get rooms with inside toilet in Lukla, Phakding and in Namche. Rest of the overnights are room without toilet inside. All the tea houses are providing common toilets outside your room. Everest Base Camp trekking region may have over flow of trekkers in peak season, in that situation, you may share common room with other trekkers. It may happen in Gorakhshep and in Lobuche.  

Foods in the trip

Kathmandu has lots of restaurants to choose for your Lunch and Dinner. Breakfast is including in the package that is provided by same hotel you are staying. During your trekking, same tea houses you are going to stay provide you breakfast and Dinner. Lunch is on the way at suitable place. All the foods during trekking is including in the packages. Hotel and restaurants provide you international standard foods in entire Everest Base Camp Trekking. It is suggest choosing vegetarian foods. Meats are not fresh in the region since it should carried from out the of the region.

Guide and Porter

Your guide to Everest Base Camp Trekking is from Kathmandu. He is the one who will be our regular guide more responsible, friendly, helpful and English speaking. You will meet him in Kathmandu before starting your trek. Porters are from Lukla airport. Usually there will be 1 porter for every two trekkers. He is able to carry total 25 kilogram. Both guide and porters are fully equipped, insured and package including their foods, accommodation on the way. Trekking guides are those who can communicate with you and local peoples and having enough knowledge of local places, peoples, their cultures and having knowledge of high altitude sickness.

Drinking Water during Trekking

Drinking water is extra cost from package. During the trek it is available bottled mineral water, boiled water fill in your own bottle from every tea houses or can use even normal water from Tap. Bottled mineral water is available in every guest houses, shops in entire Everest Base Camp Trekking. As you hike high altitude, cost of bottled mineral water and boil filtered water increase. Water from local taps can be also used as drinking water by purification with purification tablet and filter it yourself. Most of the trekkers are drinking bottled mineral water and boiled filtered water. Trekkers are using local tap water rarely.  

Equipment list

You do not need to bring whole equipments from your home country. Good trekking equipments with reasonable cost are available in Kathmandu. We can suggest you to buy those after we check it in hotel before starting of trekking. Representative from Nepal Highland Treks or your guide can provide you good suggestion. Our itinerary has enough time to be prepared with your proper equipment. 

Clothing List:

  • Round cap to protect from sun during sunny day
  • Warm head cover cap
  • Muff to cover mouth from heavy wind and cold
  • 2 pairs warm inner thermal and inner trouser
  • 1 pair warm outer trouser
  • 1 pair warm wind proof warm outer trouser
  • One pair light and warm jacket or sweeter
  • One pair down jacket
  • One pair wind proof jacket
  • 2 pairs light shocks
  • 2 pair warm shocks
  • 1 pair light shoe or sandal
  • 1 pair warm water proof trekking shoes 
  • 2 pairs light trouser or half paint for walking during day and hot temperature
  • 3 to 4 pairs of light t-shirt
  • Warm glove
  • Rain coat (cover body and backpack)
  • 20 litter polar bag for trekking, carrying yourself (Trekking bag pack)
  • Duffel bag or big polar bag to hand over with your goods to our Porter *
  • Down Sleeping bag with its Inner *     (* = Nepal Highland Treks provide in returnable based)

Other accessories

  • Head lamp with enough battery
  • Camera and its battery
  • Battery charger
  • Trekking stick
  • Phone and charger
  • lip care
  • Sun cream
  • Toilet papers
  • Hand wash lotion
  • Thoth brush add paste
  • Washing shop and bath shampoo
  • Quick dry towel

First Aid Kit Medicines 

In every trekking package, our guide will carry first aid kit box containing medicines of anti altitude, anti Diarrhea, pain relief, Antibiotic, anti cold, anti vomiting, anti headache, fever, bandages, handplast and anti septic lotion . If you are taking any regular medicine that is compulsory to bring yourself.

Preparation before Everest base camp trek

Trekking to Everest base camp 11 days walking uphills and down hill is not easy task. It is one of the challenging trek reaching up to 5545 meters altitude. Every day walking from 8 - 16 kilometer in the altitude land is 5-7 hours slowly and continue walking. If you are first timer trekker to plan trekking to Everest base camp, a regular exercise and building a walking habit from few months before is much important. Even for experience trekkers who are hiking or trekking regularly but in the lower altitude also need to continue hiking and trekking before planning to EBC trek. During this trek, acclimatization in Namche and Dingboche are much important for every trekkers. Beside hiking preparation, trekkers also should prepare with good equipment suitable for altitude and old weather as well as for bad weather in case. Having experience and professional guiding team with you is also another key to make your EBC trek success.

Unexpected condition during Everest base camp trekking

There can be unexpected situation during your plan of Everest base camp trekking. But those problem have solution. Lukla flight cancellation, bad weather on the way, lack of accommodation and altitude sickness are the major problem during EBC trekking. Lukla flight can be the first problem. Lukla airport is one of the remote and small airport, weather condition of airports and on the route is very much depend on the flight. In case of bad weather flight can be canceled for several days. During this situation, many trekkers stock. The solution of this problem is either to wait until the flight resume, talking helicopter flight or drive towards Salleri and another 2 days trekking to reach main trekking path. Another problem is bad weather on the way. In case of bad weather, trekking path may reach heavy snowy and hard to walk or unable to view the mountain range. This also may cause your health suffer. In case of bad weather, your guide will suggest the way for further process as per his experience and as other trekkers decide.

the main trekking season, local tea houses may overflow. Up to Dingboche have enough hotels and tea houses but the problem may face for Lobuche and Gorakhshep. In that case, trekkers may adjust in dinning and other than a rooms in the tea houses. The same case may come in Lukla in the case of continue flight cancellation. Altitude sickness is another problem in this trekking. It is high altitude trekking and no one will know what will happen, but the slowly walking, enough rest, eat properly, drinks enough liquid, have enough acclimatization days, leave your luggage for porter are the key to avoid high altitude sickness. Beside that there are medicine using anti altitude sickness, you can take this medicine up to the day you reach at Everest base camp.

2 Days acclimatization one the way Everest Base Camp Trekking

  • In our 16 days itinerary, we have put two days acclimatization days on the way. It is very helpful to climb up to Everest Base Camp and Kalapathar. If you are regular hiker and  very fit in High Mountain, you can skip one day acclimatization of Dingboche. 
  • Spare day at the end of trekking is to make relax day in Kathmandu after long days of trekking. It is also for in case of your flight delay from and to Lukla
  • Flight to and from Lukla only fly with clear weather since it is remote area flight. There may change to get cancel or delay the flight. Your flight time will transfer next day if cancelled. In that case itinerary will be customizing after discussion together.

Customize EBC trekking Itinerary, Add Gokyo Lake or make your short trip 

Everest Trekking has different options customizing plan and itinerary. Everest View Trekking is the short day hiking to view Mount Everest and other mountains. You also have option to include itinerary with Gokyo Lake or including three major high passes. It also have option to explore Mount Everest and other himalayas within day program. Take Helicopter Tour to Everest or take 1 hours mountain flight from Kathmadnu.  

Looking for Short Everest Base Camp Trekking

Trekking itinerary of EBC also can customize as short days trekking. Trekking up to EBC, climb Kalapathar can be finish within 7 days. On day 8, plan to reach at Lukla with chartered helicopter flight from Gorakhshep. Day 9 fly back to Kathmandu with regular flight. EBC trekking and Helicopter flight will be total 9 days program. It is instead of long day same way walking back, take 20 minutes helicopter flight which is another experience of Arial views of beautiful Sherpa villages, mountains, monasteries, mountain Rivers, glaciers valley and more during helicopter flight.

Join Everest Base Camp Small group trekking with us

Nepal Highland Treks provide opportunity to join our small group for EBC trekking. It is more benefit for those how are individual trekkers. Joining our group also benefit in trekking cost. If our fixed departure dates shown on our web is not suitable as per you looking for, email us – we will have lot other fixed departure dates which may not shown here.

Want to skip Lukla flight in your Everest Base Camp Trekking?

We have option to run this trip from Phaplu which is driving a day from Kathmandu with private or local jeep. Total trekking itinerary including your arrival and departure days, drive to Phaplu and drive back again to Kathmandu will be 20 days.         

Some Dos and Dont’s during Everest Base Camp Trekking

Trekking route of Everest Base Camp is unspoiled and exotic land which is sensitive. Treat the land and local peoples with care and respect.  Try your best to keep environment clean and show appreciation for culture and traditional religious beliefs.
Make Everest region litter free: Do not through any litter; put it in dustbin fixed by national park or in local tea houses. Sanitary napkins and tampons should be wrapped properly and through it right place. Take batteries back to your home country for safe disposal or reuse. 

Respect local cultures, custom and peoples: Route of Everest Base Camp Hiking is combination of different cultural ethnic group of local peoples. Their culture, customs, living style and any function is typical and it is important for them. So respect all these while you are there. You can involve respectfully in those function.   

Take your guide with you in every hiking and climbing: our guide will be always with your while trekking every days. You are trekking and hiking in remote areas with maximum altitude. Few days in the itinerary are as acclimatization day and hiking around for recovering stamina. Take your guide with you in all these activities. It is Himalaya and do not be more exited, take advice from guide to take any decision.  
Do not through foods after order: Foods are all carried by helicopter or flight from Kathmandu. It takes a week time to reach all the foods in base camp site. It is not with any other transportation but carried by peoples or donkey.  It is important that you order only sufficient food which you can finish. Do not waste any foods in the region. Meet items are not fresh in Everest Region. The land is out of scarifies any animals, and meets are all carried from out of region. This is the reason meets are not fresh.

Everest Base Camp Trekking FAQs

  • You have the flexibility to choose between joining a group or doing the Everest Base Camp Trek privately. If you prefer a group experience, we offer fixed departure dates for group treks. However, if these dates don't suit your schedule, we can customize a private trek for you. Private treks provide more flexibility and can be tailored to your specific needs and preferences, ensuring a personalized experience.

  • The itinerary includes two acclimatization days in Namche Bazaar and Dingboche, allowing your body to adjust to the high altitudes gradually. Your guide is experienced in recognizing symptoms of altitude sickness and will monitor your health throughout the trek. In case of any issues, it's essential to communicate with your guide immediately. If necessary, you can descend to lower altitudes for better acclimatization. Safety is our priority, and our guides are trained to handle altitude-related issues.

  • Accommodations in Kathmandu are provided in 3-star hotels with twin-sharing rooms. During the trek, you will stay in local tea houses. These tea houses offer basic but comfortable lodging with shared facilities. Rooms with attached bathrooms are available in Lukla, Namche, and Phakding. The meals provided during the trek include breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You can expect a variety of international and local dishes at the tea houses. It is advisable to choose vegetarian meals for freshness, as meats may not be as fresh in the region. Option to upgrade your accommodation till Lobuche in your private trekking. Gorakhshep is the only one night does not have option to provide better accommodation then tourist standard simple tea houses.

  • You can purchase bottled mineral water or use boiled and filtered water available at the tea houses. While bottled water is convenient, it can become costly as you ascend to higher altitudes. Many trekkers opt for boiled and filtered water, which is safe to drink. Alternatively, you can purify tap water using purification tablets and a filter. Your guide will advise you on the best options, ensuring you stay well-hydrated throughout the trek.

  • Flights to and from Lukla are subject to weather conditions, and cancellations or delays are possible, especially during adverse weather. If your flight is canceled, your itinerary will be adjusted accordingly. In the event of a delay, you may need to extend your trek or use a spare day at the end of the itinerary. Rest assured, we have experience in handling such situations and will make necessary arrangements to minimize disruptions to your journey. Your safety is our priority, and we will ensure you reach your destination safely.

  • Packing essentials include warm clothing, sturdy hiking boots, a down jacket, a good-quality sleeping bag, and trekking poles. Most trekking gear can be rented or purchased in Thamel, Kathmandu, at reasonable prices. Our team can assist you in finding the best rental stores or shops to purchase any necessary equipment. It's important to have the right clothing and gear to stay comfortable and safe during the trek.

  • Absolutely! You can customize your Everest Base Camp Trek to include additional treks or activities in the Everest region. Popular options include the Gokyo Lake Trek, Cho La Pass, Renjo La Pass, Kongma La Pass, and climbing peaks like Island Peak and Lobuche Peak. If you prefer a longer adventure, you can also consider trekking to Everest Base Camp from Jiri, which takes you through a scenic route. Let us know your preferences, and we can create a tailored itinerary that meets your specific interests and goals.

  • Yes skip Lukla flight is possible. There is driving road before Lukla. 2 Days driving mountain road and a day hiking takes to meet regular trekking path to Everest base camp. If you make driving back to Kathmandu after your trekking Base camp, another two days are extra. Make sure that road trip is driving through mountain road. Kathmadu to Salleri and Salleri to Thandanda is the latest road reached.

Client Reviews

  • Absolutely Brilliant and highly professional

    This tour was just simply amazing and life changing. I could not be more positive about how incredibly well the tour was organised, how flexible Hermanta and the team were and how absolutely brilliant the guide Dill was. Everything was handled in the most trusted and professional way and made us feel assured the whole trip. I will absolutely use these services again and highly recommend them to everyone else.

    Paul CLARK
    Paul CLARKAustralia,May 30, 2023
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