- Duration
- 9 days
- Difficulty
- Extreme
- Group size
- 1–12
- Region
- Everest Region
- Trip style
- Everest Region
Overview
Everest Panorama Trek is short, but it is filled up with the satisfying view of Mt. Everest.
Everest Panorama Trek is short, but it is filled up with the satisfying view of Mt. Everest. Its trekking route descends into the Dudh Koshi Valley, ascends upward, shows the view of the world’s most beautiful mountain, Ama Dablam. It also changes into a hiking trail later, and then it becomes one of the scenic trails of the Everest Region. Its trekking trail ranges from an altitude of 2804 m to an altitude of 3806 m and shows you the view of the world’s famous mountains of the Everest Region. Also, it goes to nearby beautiful hills.
The place, where you are, is remote, beautiful, and one of the mountainous regions of Nepal. And the villages, where you spend your nights and have lunch, are dotted with colorful prayer flags and snow-covered mountains. All this gives you once in a lifetime experience. For a city dweller like you, beautiful villages and snow-covered mountains create a lasting impression on you. Some of these mountains are Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, Thamserku, and Tawache. In total, you see 140 mountains.
Everest Panorama Trekking creates a number of situations. You meet Sherpa people, stay in their villages, enjoy their hospitality service and see the exceptional beautiful nature.
The best things about the Everest Panorama Trek or Everest Short Trek are they are loaded with scenic views. The trek is the best means to know the culture of the Sherpa people. It familarizes you with their lifestyles and contains easy trekking trail.This trek will also take you to the Tengboche monastery, the most famous monastery of the Everest Region.
Last but not least, Everest Panorama View Trek is the best trip for a family, who wants to walk uphill and downhill with the guides and porters of Mountain Ascends Treks, who do everything, that is, rightly and perfectly in a moderate altitude in the Everest Region.
How many times, it leads you into a beautiful rhododendron forest; you really don’t know.
A THING TO BE NOTED: Before or during the trip, there are certain factors like weather and political situations that are unexpected barriers and out of our control, which will compel us to change your itinerary. In such a case, please try to understand these barriers, but our purpose will always be to follow the itinerary that has been listed in this website that you have gone through before booking the trip.
Mountain Ascend Treks For Social Causes Mountain Ascend Treks works in cooperation with local porters and tea-houses by giving them jobs and using their services and in this way, it uplifts the economic conditions of the people.
Highlights
- Seizing the opportunity to walk in the footsteps of the great climbers that have summited Everest.
- Led up the mountain by my good friend Santosh. He is the best sherpa on Everest!
- Eating, sleeping and drinking in native guesthouses along the way and feeling the warmth and love from the people of the Everest Region restores hope in the human spirit and inspires us all to be better stewards of the environment.
- Thrilling mountain flight to & from Lukla.
- Hike up to Kala Patthar (18,205 ft), Everest Base Camp (17,600 ft) & traverse through Khumbu Glacier.
- Inspiring views of Mount Everest & other 23,000 - 26,000 ft peaks along with the Khumbu Icefall.
- Walk past the scenic Sagarmata National Park & experience Sherpa culture.
Itinerary
Welcome you at Tribhuvan International Airport by our representative with company name on placard and direct transfer to hotel in Kathmandu (3 star). Our guide will brief you about next day plan on hotel.
From Kathmandu, you fly to Lukla in a small aircraft, called twin otter. Lukla is the gateway to Mt. Everest. There are 18 to 20 flights per day, and the name of the Lukla Airport is Tenzing-Hillary Airport. Only pilots, who have 7 years experience in aviation, are permitted to fly to Lukla. From there, you head off to Phakding through lush forest, hills, and valleys. On the way, there is a beautiful view of Kusum Kangru which is a mountain. In Case of Flight Delay to Lukla and Kathmandu Tenzing-Hillary Airport is located at an altitude of 2860 m. It is a hilly airport. It is also surrounded by the snow-covered mountains, Lukla has mountain weather. Sometimes, this weather changes unfavourably and causes a flight delay. In such a case, the helicopter will be charted upon your request by Mountain Ascend Treks. The fare per person will vary from helicopter to helicopter or from company to company. The fare will be roughly between USD 500 to USD 3000. The helicopter has a capacity for 4 to 6 passengers, and it can fly even at the low visibility of 1500 m, while the twin otter flies at the high visibility of 5000 m.
From Phakding, you head off to Namche by following the Dudh Koshi River, and the trekking route passes through pine and cedar forest, wherein you come across ethnic Sherpa villages, eventually, you reach Namche, which is a meeting point of the Tibetean and the Nepali traders, who deal in salt, dried meat and textiles, and this village is the largest Sherpa village in Nepal and has lots of shops and restaurants.
Today is an acclimatization day, and we will hike to the Syangboche Airport (3700 m), probably the highest airport in the world, and then we hike further to Everest View Hotel to see a breathtaking view of mountains, such as Everest, Lhotse, Amadablam, Tawache, and both named and unnamed mountains. While returning, we visit a museum, known as Sherpa Culture Museum, wherein you see dresses and musical instruments of the Sherpa people, including the photos of Mt. Everest.
The trekking route that we are going to walk on today, descends into the Dudh Kosi Valley and then ascends, eventually reaches Tengboche. This is a village, which has a famous monastery of the Everest Region, and it is a 5 hr journey to it, and most of the time, you will be ascending, so you might be tired, but this is a trek, wherein you might forget your tiredness by looking at the world’s most beautiful mountain, called Ama Dablam. In addition to these, you will see Everest, the world’s highest mountain.
The trekking trail goes uphill and downhill and to mani stones. It shows us the breath-taking view of Everest and Ama Dablam. Taking us to Sanasa, the trekking trail descends to Phunki Thanga. It descends more and becomes steep before reaching Khumjung village, where we will visit Hillary School and a monastery. From there, we trek easy downhill to reach Namche, the largest Sherpa village of Nepal.
The trekking trail descends to the valley and takes you to the suspension bridges over the Dudh Koshi River and is easy to do, and we will be walking most of the time along the Dudh Kosi River. Later this trail joins with Lukla, from where we catch a return flight to Kathmandu, the city of temples. And it is in Lukla, we feel that we have done the world’s best trek in 14 days
We catch an early morning flight to Kathmandu. After reaching Kathmandu, we can take a rest or do some souvenir shopping. If you are interested, then Mountain Ascend Treks help you in souvenir shopping. Later in the evening, you will have a farewell dinner in a Nepali restaurant, where you can see Nepali dance.Also, there will be Nepali music and songs. Along with these, there is a lot of tourism activities that you can do in Nepal. Some of these are jungle safari, biking, and mountain flight.
Today is the last day of your trip. We make sure that you reach Tribhuwan International Airport on time for departure.We will take you approximately 3 hours before your scheduled flight. We will keep in touch with you through emails. Since Nepal is the cheapest tourist destination in the world for any tourism activities, Mountain Ascend Treks is always ready to provide you service.
What the price covers
Included
- Airport / Hotel / Airport pick up & drop off service by a private tourist vehicle.
- Standard twin-sharing accommodation in a three-star hotel in Kathmandu (2 nights only) including breakfast.
- Guided city tour in Kathmandu valley by a private tourist vehicle.
- All standard meals during the trek (Breakfast, lunch and dinner).
- Basic guesthouse accommodation during the trek in mostly twin-share and occasionally dormitory-style rooms (4 nights only).
- Local Nepali expert guide (English speaking).
- The required number of local staff and porters to carry your luggage during the trek (One porter for every two guests).
- Food, accommodation, salary, insurance, equipment and medicine for all staff.
- Free duffle bag and T-Shirt
- All our government taxes, vat, tourist service charges.
- Official expenses.
- Arrival and Departure transfers on both domestic and international flights.
- OPEN and CHOICE Full board meals while Everest Panorama Trekking.
- Accommodation at clean and comfortable tea house or lodge.
- Welcome dinner with cultural program as listed in the itinerary.
- All Domestic flights and airport tax as listed in the itinerary.
- Private transportation to and from the starting and ending points of the trek as applicable.
- Professional local trekking group leader well trained in Wilderness First Aid.
- Insurance of all staff including porters
- Warm clothing and required trekking gear for porters like Gortex jacket /trousers, trekking shoes, woolen hat, woolen gloves, woolen shocks, sun glasses etc.
- Comprehensive per-departure information and trip dossiers
- TIMS Trekking permit, Sagarmatha national park entry fees for Everest Panorama Trekking.
Not included
- Lunch and dinner in Kathmandu.
- Travel insurance which covers emergency rescue and evacuation.
- International airfare and airport departure tax.
- Nepal entry visa – you can get it on arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.
- Multiple-entry tourist visa fees: 15 days US$25, 30 days US$40, 90 days US$100 (or the equivalent in foreign currency). Please bring 2 passport-size photos.
- Alcoholic, hot and cold drinks.
- Personal trekking equipment.
- Tips for trekking staff and driver (you will absolutely want to show your gratitude to your sherpas and porters).
- Any other expenses that are not mentioned in the ‘Price Includes’ section).
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