16-Day Everest Base Camp Trek

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Your sightseeing trip will start after breakfast. You'll have a private guide and driver for your cultural tour of the UNESCO Heritage sites of the city. During the tour, you'll visit Swayambhunath Stupa and Bhaktapur Durbar Square or Pashupatinath Temple and Boudhanath Stupa. The afternoon includes a briefing and preparation for the trek to Everest Base Camp.

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Our guide will come to your hotel early in the morning and take you to the domestic airport for your flight to Lukla. It's a 35-minute scenic flight to starting point of your trek, sitting at 2,804 metres. Your trek begins trek immediately. At first, your trail descends steeply before you turn to a trail hugging the Dudh Kosi Valley. You'll reach your destination for the day by climbing uphill from Lhawa to Phakding.

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We continue trekking along the banks of the Dudh Kosi river and crossing this river several times on exhilarating suspension bridges. After entering Sagamartha National Park, the trail climbs steeply until we arrive at Namche Bazaar, the Gateway to Everest and one of the biggest towns on the entire Everest trail and your first acclimatisation stop.

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We will spend a day here to acclimatisation to the increasing alititude. After breakfast, we do a short hike to Syangboche from where we have splendid views of Kwandge Amadablam. Then, return to Namche Bazar and visit museums and monasteries where you gain knowledge of tradition and culture of Sherpa people. You'll have some free time to go to the coffee shop or bakery for a more stable wi-fi connection to contact home.

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We continue our trek to Tengboche with less-paved and narrower paths. We will cross a couple of long and strong suspension bridges and go through lush pine forests. T You'll have a quick stop in a village before continuing on a steep ascent and eventually crossing the suspension bridge to reach the Tengboche Monastery, where Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (the first people to reach the summit of Everest) received their blessing.

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This is one of the most memorable parts of the journey, and your trek from Tengboche to Dingboche starts early in the morning. Leaving the village, the dramatic rugged outcrops of the Himalayas will unfold before your eyes, with Mount Everest constantly in the background. This part of the journey is remote, with little chance of seeing another person until you arrive in Dingboche.

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We definitely enjoy a rest day in Dingboche. It's important to have a few rest days along the way to properly acclimatise your body to the altitude. We will do a day hike to Nangkartshang Peak, sitting at 5083 metres where you will see snow and ice formations all over the valley. We will also be able to enjoy the scarce flora and fauna of the Everest region. We then climb down to Dingboche and visit the monastery in Dingboche.

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After breakfast, we start trekking uphill and arrive at a yak farm with fascinating views of Tawache Peak (6,542m) and Cholatse Peak (6,440m) on the left. Then the trail goes to the Khumbu Glacier by following the Duglha. You'll pass by a memorial for all those who have lost their lives tackling Everest before making one final ascent to reach Lobuche.

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Today, you reach Everest Base Camp. The trail goes gradually up with views of the Khumbu glacier and crossing the north rim of Everest and Pumori. We will check into a lodge in Gorak Shep. After lunch, we will continue our journey to Everest Base Camp without our packs. We can view Khumbu icefall, Khumbu glacier and have a close view of Mt. Pumori, Khumbutse and other several peaks before heading back to Gorak Shep.

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We start climbing Kalapathar (5,544 metres) early in the morning to enjoy the sunrise view over the Mt. Everest. Kalapathar is just a pile of large rocks and dust, but it is a famous spot for its incredible panoramic views of the surrounding peaks. We head back to Gorak Shep for breakfast and then trek to Pheriche (4,371 metres). The trek is quite easy as we only hike downhill but today is a very long and challenging day as we ascend and descend a thousand metres.

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We will trek down to Pangboche village, where you can see the oldest monastery in the region, which contains the scalp and bones of a Yeti. From here, the trail drops to the riverside and across a bridge and continues up through the pine and juniper forest to Tengboche village. The trail then drops sharply down to the Dudh Koshi River and the village of Phunki, where we cross the river, and back to Namche Bazaar.

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Today is the last day of our trekking. The entire trail drops sharply down to Lukla (2,810 metres) by following the Dudh Kosi River. You'll go through Sagarmatha National Park and Dudh Koshi, this is a long day as you are trekking a trail that you did over two days previously. You'll stop for a quick rest in Phakding where you'll have lunch before the final stretch to Lukla. Here we complete our trek.

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Take the scenic flight back to Kathmandu in the morning, giving you a little time to snatch one last glance at the mountains. After lunch, we take you on a sightseeing tour of Kirtipur, a historic hill town, which has remained isolated from tourism despite being so close to Kathmandu. We will have dinner as we watch the Nepali cultural show in the evening.

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This morning we visit the beautiful and medieval town of Bhaktapur in the Kathmandu Valley. The town is centred by a Durbar square, it's one of three in the vallley. In the afternoon you have free time to do some last minute shopping and relax. In the evening, we meet once more for a farewell dinner to say our goodbyes and reflect on our journey together.