Luxury Everest Base Camp Trek

After breakfast, our city guide will take you to various historical places and world heritage listed sites. These will include Pashupatinath (One of the greatest Hindu temples in Asia), Bouddhanath stupa (Buddhist stupa), Swayabhunath (Buddhist stupa, also known as the Monkey Temple) and Kathmandu Durbar Square (home of the living goddess Kumari)). After sightseeing, you will be dropped at your hotel with time to prepare for your trek. Overnight in Kathmandu.

After breakfast, we drive to domestic airport for a short trans-Himalayan flight to Lukla. In clear weather, the flight offers the surreal view of Himalayan peaks. Upon arrival at Lukla, we meet our local porter and start trekking along the the Dudh Koshi River Valley : to Cheplung (2700m) and Ghat (2530m). Another hour trek leads us to Phakding.
Overnight at hotel in Phakding
Includes meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

After breakfast, you will begin trekking along the Dudhkoshi River, crossing over many suspension bridges. Soon you will reach the small village of Jorshale to eat lunch. Jorshale is the last village until you reach Namche Bazaar. It is also a Sagarmatha National Park check post, where you must stop for a permit check. The trail continues following the river until Dovan, where you will cross a high suspension bridge ascending to Top Danda. It is here that you will have your first view of Mount Everest, and majestic views of Thamserkhu and Kusum Ri. The trail continues to ascend to Namche Bazaar. Namche Bazaar has nice facilities including a bank/ATM service, bakeries and café, massage, trekking shops, health posts, and a weekly market.
Overnight at hotel in Namche Bazaar
Includes meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

This is first scheduled acclimatization day. Mountain expert suggests to acclimatize for at least 24 hours for proper acclimatization. Today we will climb to a higher altitude and sleep at a lower altitude to prevent altitude sickness. After breakfast, you will climb to a view point near the army camp with a beautiful view of Everest, Lotse, Nupse, Aamadablam, Thamserkhu, Kusum Ri, Kongde and the Imja Valley. Then you will climb up to Shyangboche, which is home to the famous luxury Everest hotel. From here, you will continue to beautiful Sherpa settlement in the Khumjung valley and Khunde. Khumjung is home of the Hilary School and has a monastery where Yati’s head is kept. After your acclimatization hike, you will return to Namche. Overnight in Namche.
Overnight at hotel in Namche Bazaar
Includes meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

After breakfast, we start trekking towards Pangboche enjoying the great vies of Mt. Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, Ama Dablam and more. Today, we negotiate few uphill and downhill trail with occasional encounter of wildlife like pheasant, musk deer and Himalayan Thar. Following the downhill trail, we reach Kayangjuma and Sansa where the trail forks into two: Gokyo Valley and Everest Base Camp. We continue through the forested route of pine and walk across the bridge over Dudh Koshi River. The bridge is decorated with prayer flags. We reach the small village of Phunki Thenga. It is picturesque village that houses couple of small teahouse and an army camp. After lunch, we climb through the dense forest of pine until Tengboche. Tengboche offers superb view of Ama Dablam and also houses Tengboche Monastey, the largest monastery in the region. Another hour walk through the forest route of rhododendron takes us to Deboche.
Overnight at hotel in Deboche
Includes meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

After breakfast, we continue through the several chorten, mani walls and scattered villages with amazing backdrop of Ama Dablam. We take north route of Pheriche or join eastward trail beneath the face of Ama Dablam. We then follow the moderate difficult path until Imja Khola valley. The valley ahead begins to widen-up as you reach the confluence of Lobuche River. We further descend into the river and make a final climb to Dingboche.
Overnight at hotel in Namche Bazaar
Includes meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

After breakfast, we caontinue to ascent to Duglha via Khumbu Khola valley. We walk across the arid terrace and enjoy the great views of mountains. We reach the Yak herder place of Dusa, from where the valley starts narrowing and further comtinue to reach Phulung Karpo. Phulung Karpo is the campsite during first successful Everest expedition in 1953. With the superb view of Pumori, we descend down and walk along the roaring stream. Afterward, we cross small wooden bridge and make a final ascend to Dugla. From here, we get the great views of Nuptse, Cholastse, Thamserku and several others.
Overnight at teahouse in Duglha
Includes meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Today, we trek beyond Duglha and continue through the steep terminal moraine of Khumbu glacier. We climb through the boulder-strewn path and reach Chupki Lhara. We further drop down to the Khumbu Glacier moraine and reach Lobuche where we get surrounded with gigantic mountain peaks – Khumbutse, Lingtren, pUmori and Mahalangur Himal.
Overnight at teahouse in Lobuche
Includes meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

The trail continues to climb through meadows and rocky terrain to Gorakshep (5120m). It will take a couple of hours to get to Gorakshep then another two and a half hours to reach Everest Base Camp (5310m). The trail to Everest Base Camp has many twists and turns and there is some risk of falling stones. Everest Base Camp has incredible views of the Khumbu glacier, icefall and iceberg. Many mountaineers begin their Everest expeditions here. Although there is not much elevation gain on this portion of the trek, most people experience the high altitude at this point; therefore, it is important to arrive in Labuche at an early time.
Overnight at teahouse in Lobuche
Includes meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Today may be one of the highlights of your trek! Early morning, you will start ascending up the small hill of Kalapatthar (5545m). You will reach the top after 2 hours steep climbing, and at times there may be chilly winds. Throughout your ascent, there will be plenty of time to catch your breath and take photos of the beautiful views. Once you reach the top, you will have the best view of Everest (8848m) and an equally stunning view of Pomori (7100m), and many other mountains including Lingtren, Khumbutse, Changste and Nupse. After summiting Kalapatthar, you will descend down to Gorakshep and have breakfast. The trek continues from Labuche to Peruche, which may seem quite easy after many days of steep uphill climbs. Despite this, it is important to walk slowly and carefully because there may be unstable rocks.After along day of trekking you will rest well in Peruche..
Overnight at teahouse in Pheriche
Includes meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

In the morning, you will cross the river near Pheriche and go over a small pass before descending downto Sandrang, where the trail merges with Dingboche trail. The trail continues to descend down to Samare and Pangboche. Near Pangboche, you will cross the suspension bridge over the Imja Khola then, gradually ascend to Tengboche. From Tengboche, the trail drops down to Phungi Tanga and ascends up to Kyangjuma. The hiking from Kyangjuma to Namche is not challenging, and you will pass by beautiful Buddhist Stupas along the way.
Overnight at teahouse in Namche Bazaar
Includes meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

The hike to Lukla is quite long, but manageable. The trail drops rapidly to Dovan where it crosses over another suspension bridge over the Dudhkoshi River and reaches Jorshale. In Jorshale, you will need to check your Sagarmatha National Park Permit. You will trek through Muse, Banker, TokTok and Phakding. You will have lunch in Phakding then make the ascent to Chhopolung, finally arriving in Lukla.
Overnight at teahouse in Lukla
Includes meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Early in the morning, you will fly back from Tenzing Hilary Airport in Lukla to Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu. You will be provided transportation back to your hotel room and will have free time to enjoy Kathmandu. In the evening Himalayan Joy will host as a farewell dinner at a typical Nepali restaurant, and provide you with transportation back to your hotel.
Overnight at star hotel in Kathmandu
Includes meals: Breakfast & Dinner

Your 15 days Luxury Everest Base Camp Trek comes to an end today. The representative from Himalayan Joy will drop you back to Tribhuvan International Airport for your final departure.