About 13 Days Everest Base Camp Trekking | Top of the World Adventure

The Everest Base Camp Trek (also known as EBC trek) is one of Nepal's most well-known trekking adventures. It is one of the best Everest base camp trek packages, lasting for 13 days, and takes location in the Khumbu region of the country, home of the outstanding Everest Himalayas. The trip is a stunning adventure filled with Khumbu’s pleasant natural, cultural and Himalayan facets. It is one of the great opportunities to revel in the mighty Everest peaks up close from every angle. The sight of the majestic Himalayas of the Everest massif is indescribable in words.

With all those close experiences in the highest mountainous region in the world along with really low temperatures, the Everest base camp trek might look intimidating and difficult but with our guide and your sheer determination, it will be possible to trek at the base of Mount Everest, which will be worth it as you will be creating one of the best experiences anyone can ever imagine at an altitude of 5545m.

The Everest Base Camp Trek route starts with a quick flight to Lukla from Kathmandu. Upon touchdown at the Lukla airport, which is one of the highest-located airports in the world, you can without delay sense the trade in the environment. The Himalayan breeze coruscates down the peaks and brushes the hills with a refreshingly chilly patina. The trekking trail then branches off closer to several ethnic Sherpa settlements and villages earlier than ultimately concluding at the base camp of the world’s tallest Himalayan peak.

(P.S: Lukla flights from Kathmandu depend upon the season and traffic at Kathmandu airport. In such situations, all the Lukla flights will be connected to Ramechhap airport.)

 

Trip Highlights

  • Fly over high altitude Tenzing Hillary Airport, Lukla
  • World Highest base camp “Mt. Everest Base Camp” at the elevation of 5364 m.
  • Kalapatthar- Majestic and spectacular panoramic view of Mount Everest Himalayan region.
  • Tengboche monastery- the stunning view point for Ama Dablam Mountain
  • Nepal’s biggest Khumbu and longest Ngozumpa glaciers
  • Three great high passes (Kongma-la, Cho-la & Renjo-la pass)
  • Hillary Museum and Sagarmatha National Park
  • Namche Bazaar capital for Everest region
  • Explore traditional Sherpa villages & experience their culture, traditions & hospitality

Itinerary

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Day 01: Arrival at Kathmandu

Top of the World Adventure is one and only travel agency in Tribhuwan International Airport arrival. After collecting your baggage you will get to our agency in international arrival. Our airport staff will brief you regarding the trip and will provide you vouchers. You will then be transferred to hotel from arrival gate.

  • Meals: Dinner
  • Accommodation: Hotel
  • Place: Kathmandu
  • Altitude: 1300

Today you will start your 13 days trek with a flight from Kathmandu to Lukla (2,860 m) in the morning. If you are not taking guide from Kathmandu and like to take from Lukla airport, your guide will be there in airport with your namecard. After 45 minutes, you will land in the runway. Then you will walk down to the Dudh Kosi River, where you will connect with the main path to Namche Bazaar. After moving all the way through the small area of Ghat (2550 m), you will soon arrive at our teahouse at Phakding.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • Accommodation: Teahouse
  • Place: Phakding
  • Altitude: 2610

 You will start your trekking from Phakding and walk across the river to trek all the way through the area of Rhododendron. Then you will go crossways to the Dudh Kosi at Benkar and take pleasure from the scenes of snow-topped mountains Kusum Kanguru (6,369 m), Thamserku (6,623 m) and so on.  Along the way you will have your permits check at Jorsalle. Then trekking becomes fairly difficult and includes a perpendicular climb to Namche Bazaar.  After crossing one of the suspension bridges above the river, you will ascend to Namche Bazaar. Overnight at hotel in Namche Bazaar.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • Accommodation: Teahouse
  • Place: Namche Bazaar
  • Altitude: 3440

Today you may rest or hike through the village of Khunde and Khumjung. Khumjung is the largest village of Khumbu region. After having lunch you will hike back to Namche Bazaar.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • Accommodation: Teahouse
  • Place: Namche Bazar
  • Altitude: 3440

Our guide will then take you down through the Khumjung community and move to the major path to Tengboche. You will walk further to Trashinga and then move down to go across the Dudh Koshi at Phunke Tenga(3,250 m.). In the daytime, it is a wide and vertical ascend through Fir, Black Juniper, Pine, Rhododendron forest and reach Tengboche monastery. Here you can see gigantic peaks AmaDablam, Kantega and Mount Everest. You will stay at teahouse in Tengboche.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • Accommodation: Teahouse
  • Place: Tengboche
  • Altitude: 3867

You will walk slightly down through the forest of Birch, Juniper, Fir and Rhododendron at Debuche. Here due to the elevation you have to speed yourself all the way through the day. After passing the Imja Khola, the trail heads to Pangboche where you will be able to see the beautiful mountain of Ama Dablam. Then the route is to climb all the way through unwrapped alpine hillsides prior to another crossing of the Imja Khola and reach Dingboche. And you will stay overnight at Dingboche teahouse lodge. 

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • Accommodation: Teahouse
  • Place: Dingboche
  • Altitude: 4410 m

Today, 7th day of your 13 days of trekking to Everest Base Camp, there will be two route for Lobuche trek. First route will be Kongmala pass(5535m), which is first pass among 3 passes.  You need to walk around 8-9 hours to get Lobuche. Second route will be via Pheriche, this is little short route to get to Lobuche. You need to hike around 5-6 hours. Overnight at Lobuche Teahouse.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • Accommodation: Teahosue
  • Place: Lobuche
  • Altitude: 4910 m

This day you will start your trek from Lobuche(4910m) towards Gorakshep(5140m), where you can find the nearest teahouse from EBC. You will get to Gorakshep at about lunch time. After having lunch, our guide will lead you to Everest Base Camp (5364 m), then return to Gorakshep for staying overnight as there are no teahouses in Everest Base Camp.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • Accommodation: Teahosue
  • Place: Gorakshep
  • Altitude: 5160

Early morning, you will hike to the top of Kalapathar at 5,545 meters, this will be at the highest spot of the adventure, offering incredible views of mountains with Mt. Everest at closest. After a great moment, you will return to Gorakshep for breakfast and continue your trek to Thugla, and downhill to Pheriche on windy valley for overnight stop.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • Accommodation: Teahouse
  • Place: Pheriche
  • Altitude: 4240

Return journey is much easier as the walk drops heights every few hours, you will walk downhill with few short ups to Pangboche and then to a bridge with two hours climb to Tengboche. You will stop for lunch in Tengboche, then continue to Namche Bazzar. Over night at Namche Bazaar.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • Accommodation: Teahouse
  • Place: Namche Bazzar
  • Altitude: 3440

The trail steeply goes down through Rhododendron and Pine forest to Jorasalle. It will take about two hours and another 6-hour walk to Lukla via Monju, Benkar, Phakding, Ghatkhola, Chaurikharka, Chheplung and arrival in Lukla and overnight at guest house.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • Accommodation: Teahouse
  • Place: Lukla
  • Altitude: 2860

The day starts with early morning joyful flight from Lukla to Kathmandu and transfer to your hotel. During the day you will have rest after long journey in the Khumbu Himalayas and evening dinner with Nepali cultural show.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  • Accommodation: Hotel
  • Place: Kathmandu
  • Altitude: 1300

And here you are done with your 13 days of journey in Nepal. And then as per your flight timings our staff will transfer you to Kathmandu airport for your international departure.

  • Meals: Breakfast
  • Place: Kathmandu
  • Altitude: 1300

Cost Details

Cost Includes

  • Meals: 
    Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner during the trek

  • Accommodation
    3-Star accommodation in Kathmandu for 3 nights
    Tea house accommodation along the trail for 11 days
  • Transportation:   
    All land transportation with pickups and drops
    Domestic flight to Lukla and back
  • Guide and Porter:
    An Experienced license holder guide including his foods, salary, accommodation and insurance.
    A porter for 2 people. 
  • Entry Fees and Permits:
    Sagarmatha National Park Entrance Fee and Local fees
  • Other
    First aid kits, Farewale dinner, Kathmandu city tour 

Cost Excludes:

Bar bills

  • Visa fee
  • International flight fare
  • Travels insurance
  • Trekking equipment 
  • Tips

Client Reviews

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    Trekking Everest Base Camp

      |   JESUS BURGUETE, Spain

    Trekking organized by Nepal from the top of the world adventure agency, in which the head of the agency, (Nepal is called), provided everything and provided everything necessary to not have even the slightest problem in the face of any adversity, such as flights to lukla, which are usually complicated by clouds, with very professional and friendly guides as well as sherpas, which made it an unforgettable trekking, also communicating with him in Spanish, totally recommended. We will contact him again for the next adventure through Nepal without a doubt since a trekking that could have been very complicated, made it very simple.

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    Great trip, improvement on exceptions needed

      |   Chris_van_Baal, Netherlands

    We booked a Mount Everest Base Camp trekking at Top of the World. The Itinerary was very clear and the price was good. The trip itself was amazing. Our guide Pasang helped us with everything and showed us around the Khumbu region. So the experience of the trekking itself was almost flawless. The only downside experienced with Top of the World was at the end. When we wanted to return our airline company did not had flights left for that day. Since we had an open ticket it wouldn’t be an problem to book a new ticket and ask for a refund for the original, according to the employee that picked us from the airport on behalf of Top of the World. Back in Kathmandu we had the biggest trouble to get a full refund from Top of the World. According to the owner the price printed on the ticket was not the amount we could get back. The refund amount varied from 50% to 90%. After lots of quarreling we accepted a $30 loss on our refund. This issues could have been solved with more elegance by Top of the World.

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Useful info

  1. If you are thinking to do Everest Base camp trekking better to come with some flexible days. Because of weather issue , Lukla flight may cancel. 
  2. You need to bring trekking equipment with the consideration of -20 degree centigrade.