Classic Everest Base Camp Trek

Kathmandu lies in a fruitful god-goddess valley surrounded by green rim hills with incredible mountains. Whether you arrive by road or fly into Kathmandu, arriving at this beautiful city is bound to be a memorable experience. If you take a flight to Kathmandu, our airport representative will be there at the Kathmandu international Tribhuban airport terminal waiting to give you a warm welcome. Look for someone to display your name on our company’s name. After greeting you, he will drive you to your hotel and help you check in. If you are arriving via road, our representative will meet you at a designated stop or forward you the hotel’s address where your room has been booked through NSA. 

As per your Classic Everest Base Camp Trek itinerary booking us, no activities are planned for today. You can take a rest and restore your energy for your upcoming great adventure trip overnight 3-star hotel in Kathmandu. 

• Location: Kathmandu
• Altitude: 1,315m | 4,314ft

Today would be your wonderful day! After breakfast at the hotel, your experienced tour guide lead the Kathmandu valley city sightseeing tour: The famous landmarks of Kathmandu- Boudhanath Stupa, Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu Durbar Square, and Swayambhunath are the cultural property of Kathmandu and protected UNESCO World Heritage Sites. You will get to explore these cultural and religious sites with our knowledgeable city tour guide. From him/her, you will get to know historical facts and the legends and local folklore attached to these sites.

Boudhanath Stupa is one of the oldest Buddhist stupas in Asia and an important center of Tibetan Buddhism. Pashupatinath Temple is Nepal’s holiest Shiva shrine. You may have seen this temple in many travel brochures and in the Marvel movie Dr. Strange. Yes, a small portion of this famous Hollywood movie was shot on the bridge below the temple. Watching the Hindu cremation rites at Arya Ghat may prove to be an eye-opening experience.

Kathmandu Durbar Square is one of the three royal squares in the valley. Built-in the medieval era, the Durbar square used to be the Malla rulers’ royal seat and later the Shah kings. The house of Kumari, the Living Goddess, lies inside the royal square. Swayambhunath, the hilltop shrine, is a place of worship for both Buddhist and Hindu devotees. Legend has it that Kathmandu took shape after Manjushri, a Boddhisattva, built this stupa. After your sightseeing tour, you will get back to your hotel. After resting for a while, will call you for a short meeting at the hotel’s lobby, where there will be a quick trip briefing. You will meet your trekking guide, who will brief you and answer queries if you have any overnight in Kathmandu.

• Meals: Breakfast
• Altitude: 1,315m | 4,314ft

Your flight time for Lukla usually happens early morning when a short drive takes you to Kathmandu airport, after checking in at the respective airline's counter with security board a small aircraft for a scenic short of 30 minutes to land at Lukla's small airstrip. “Gateway to Everest” During air grand panorama of Himalayan peaks with Everest and Makalu at a close distance as the plane heads to the runway to stop at the parking area at Tenzing and Hillary Airport in Lukla. With time here for refreshing stops and then a walk starts accompanied by our native porters, beginning with a pleasant start downhill past Lukla town to reach Dudh Kosi River valley with Sherpa farm villages as our route leads further encountering prayer walls and spinning bells to reach our first overnight stop at Phakding village.

• Meals: Breakfast + Lunch + Dinner
• Altitude: 2,610m | 8699ft

After breakfast, better if we make an early start and take the path to Namche. It is a rigorous walk filled with steep ascents. But the scenery is breathtaking, and you can’t stop yourself from stopping multiple times to soak in the stunning views. As you reach Monjo, you enter Sagarmatha National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a rich storehouse of rare Himalayan flora and fauna.

The highlights of today’s trek include: Crossing the highest bridge in Khumbu Region. The Hillary Bridge. Entering Sagarmatha National Park and capturing the first glimpse of Mount Everest. Namche, the stopover point for the day, is one of the landmarks of the Everest Trek. A Sherpa settlement, Namche is carved on the side of a steep mountain face. Dotted with traditional stone houses, local teahouses, luxury resorts, inviting cafes and bakeries, and shops selling knick-knacks, Namche is the Khumbu commercial center. With banks, ATM kiosks, money exchange centers, and a lively local market, this Sherpa settlement draws traders from the higher reaches.

A comfortable teahouse run by a Sherpa family is your shelter for the night. You can enjoy a hot shower and a hearty dinner before you retire for the night.

• Meals: B L D
• Location: Namche Bazaar
• Altitude: 3,440m | 11,287ft

At Namche Bazaar for a rest day to support acclimatization at this right altitude of above 3,000 m high, on this day take a short hike to Everest View Hotel above Namche Bazaar, the first Porsche hotel or resort of the Khumbu area. Offers grand views of Everest and Amadablam peaks with other adjoining peaks within beautiful green woodland of tall rhododendron and silver fir trees. Other options will be walking high above Namche at the Park Museum area facing mighty views of Everest, Lhotse, and stunning looking Amadablam peaks, with time to visit the museum of great interest with full information of the Khumbu areas for Sherpa culture and history.

• Meals: B L D
• Altitude: 3,440m | 11,287ft

Today your trek begins at a leisurely pace. Leaving Namche Bazaar, your path winds uphill through fragrant rhododendron woodlands and passes alongside quiet Himalayan villages. Many trekkers regard this route as the most scenic section of the entire Everest Base Camp Trek. You’re really in the mountains now: Mt. Everest, Ama Dablam, Lhotse, and Nuptse are just a few of the stunning peaks that tower over the trail. You’ll continue hiking past the Imja Khola; this river drains the slopes of Everest and is actually a tributary of the Dudh Koshi. Your destination for today lies where the two rivers converge at the spiritual center of the Khumbu, Tengboche. This village is best known as the site of the important Tengboche Monastery. This is the largest gompa you’ll visit during your hike, and it’s a sublime sight to behold: flanked by pines and azaleas and set against the backdrop of Ama Dablam, it’s hard to imagine a more striking setting. Make sure to step inside to check out the monastery’s exquisite murals and statuary overnight in the teahouse.

• Meals: B L D
• Altitude: 3,860m | 12,664ft

Morning views of Everest and magnificent Ama-Dablam, walk leads downhill for a few hours to the bridge over Imjatse River, after the bridge walks on the open country where the tree lines disappear only for a few sparse vegetation and juniper bushes, walking on the gentle uphill for a while to reach at Pangboche village at 3,900 meters, the last permanent village before Dingboche and beyond, from here a slow climb to Somara for lunch and continue walking on the nice terrain with the last climb to Dingboche village for an overnight stop, located in the Imjatse valley with a picturesque panorama of snow-capped mountains including North Face of Ama-Dablam.

• Meals: B L D
• Altitude: 4,410m 14,469ft

A full rest day at Dingboche for better acclimatization to make sure that every member in the group is well and fit for the onward journey to Everest base camp, Dingboche takes a short hike to Nangkartshang hill for a great panorama of Imjatse valley with Island, Taboche peaks includes views of world’s fifth-highest Mt. Makalu towards east direction.

• Meals: B L D
• Altitude: 4,410m 14,469ft

After breakfast as you climb higher, the air starts to thin, and you find yourself struggling a bit. Walk at a slow and steady pace. Don’t rush and try to breathe rhythmically while walking. The scenery around the trail starts getting bare and desolate. You are now trekking above the tree line, and you notice the absence of trees and greenery. There are no permanent settlements at this altitude. Lobuche is just a cluster of teahouses that local Sherpas run. But there is no shortage of incredible views as high mountains seem to rise next to the teahouses and surround the whole landscape. Have an early night as tomorrow you will be walking to your destination- Everest Base Camp at 5,364m.

• Meals: B L D
• Altitude: 4,910m | 16,109ft

After a pleasant stop at Lobuche, a walk leads towards our main highlights of the journey to reach our much-awaited destination Everest Base Camp, where they walk in the morning leads on the pleasant path and then a short climb to reach higher ground. Then back on nice trails reaching a place where you can visit Glass Pyramid place, a metrological station's joint venture of the Italian and Nepalese Governments, surveying the weather and movement of ice and glaciers. From here with interesting information about the project walk leads towards moraine and ice above Khumbu's massive glaciers and then a short descent to a wide-open field at Gorakshep, a place with few lodges. Gorakshep was an original Everest base camp before it moved further east. After a short stop and rest heading towards our goal walking into moraine and rocks to reach Everest base camp in the backdrop of mighty Khumbu Ice Falls and glaciers. Everest is hidden between the peaks of Lho-la and Nuptse where a tip of Everest can be seen from the base camp, with ever-present views of towering peaks after an exciting moment of the adventure heading back to Gorakshep for the last overnight on the highest point of the journey.

• Meals: B L D
• Altitude: 5,125m | 16,814ft

Gorakshep is located beneath Kalapathar and a lofty peak of Pumori, morning a steep climb heading into a rocky path with vigorous breathtaking uphill to reach the top the highest spot of the adventure at Kalapathar, situated above 5,545m facing a sweeping panorama of high giant mountains a view of Pumori and Everest at close distance. After a glorious scenic moment descends to Gorakshep and continue walking on the same trail back to Lobuche to reach Thugla, where the path from Dingboche and Pheriche splits as our walk leads downhill towards a flat windy valley of Pheriche. Walking for an hour on the scenic valley to reach Pheriche a settlement with a number of good lodges to stay with views of Amadablam-Taboche-Cholatse with other series of peaks, at Pheriche for an overnight stop.

NOTE: If we do not climb up to Kala Patthar, the trekking journey will be 7.1 Miles and 11.5 Km 5 hours only.

• Meals: B L D
• Altitude: 4,240m | 13,911ft

From Pheriche, a morning walk leads to the end of the valley with a short descent to a river and then climbs to a ridge with a Stupa, where the walk leads to a long descent past Somare and Pangboche village. After Pangboche retracing the journey back uphill to Thyangboche.

• Altitude: 3,860m | 12,664ft

Trek downhill to Imjatse River with a steep climb for some time to reach Lobesa and Shanasa villages and then on an easy walk to a small beautiful place at Kyanjima. The walk continues on route Namche with wonderful views of Everest-Lhotse-Nuptse-Amadablam with an array of peaks, some of the areas on the walk lead you to a pleasant place where sometimes one can spot some wild-life like Musk Deer, a herd of Himalayan Thar with colorful Danphe (Lophoporous / Impeyan Pheasant) national bird of the country on way back to Monjo.

• Meals: B L D
• Altitude: 2,840m | 9,318ft

Today is our last walking day of the adventure, morning walk on the best pleasant path where the walk follows the Dudh Kosi River to Phakding village and then heads towards Ghat and Tade-Kosi small areas with the last climb to reach the main gate of Lukla. After a final climb of the journey rest of the walk is easy going through Lukla town and its markets place to our overnight stop in a nice lodge at Lukla celebration with fellow trekkers and staff.

• Meals: B L D
• Altitude: 1,315m | 4,314ft

Dream of your EBC successful trek concludes today. Wake up early to bid a very fond farewell to the spectacular scenery of the Khumbu before boarding your morning flight back to Kathmandu. Watching the Himalayas pass beneath your window, you’ll now be able to recognize many of the significant peaks. After the mountains’ solitude, the hustle and bustle of Kathmandu may come as something of a surprise. You’ll be transferred to your hotel to spend the rest of the day at your leisure; feel free to relax or explore the local markets. There are plenty of great restaurants in Thamel where you can enjoy dinner.

• Meals: Breakfast
• Altitude: 1,315m | 4,314ft

A buffer day is reserved for emergencies and flight delays due to bad weather. If everything goes as planned, you can utilize this day as you wish. You can take a city tour, explore markets, go souvenir hunting, chill out at a spa, or relax at your hotel.

• Meals: Breakfast

Bid goodbye to Kathmandu and head to the airport. You will be transferred to the international airport well on time to catch your flight. If you want to extend your stay, you can let us know, and we will help you further plan your journey into the Himalayas.Bid goodbye to Kathmandu and head to the airport. You will be transferred to the international airport well on time to catch your flight. If you want to extend your stay, you can let us know, and we will help you further plan your journey into the Himalayas.