Nepal: Kalapatar and Everest Base Camp
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Highlights
- Enjoy viewing the summit of Pumo Ri (23,442’)
- Trek to Kalapatat and Everest Base Camp
- See Lho Lha, one of the passes between Nepal and Tibet.
- Visit the Golden Temple, the largest Newar Buddhist monastery in the valley and a superb example of Newari metal craft.
- See the beautiful wood carvings for which the Newari artisans of the valley are rightly famous.
- Visit Bhaktapur Durbar Square
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- Accommodations as listed, including all service charges and taxes
- All ground transfers
- Expert English-speaking guides
- All cooking and camping equipment, including sleeping bags and tents
- All entrance fees to temples, museums, etc.
- All meals as indicated with B-breakfast, L-lunch, D-dinner
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Meals: Dinner
Accommodation: Kathmandu Guest House, Hotel Yak And Yeti Or Dwarikas
On arrival in Kathmandu, our representatives holding a Myths and Mountains sign will meet you. They will help you transfer to the Tibet Hotel. The afternoon is free to explore the city on your own. At night, there will be a welcome dinner and trip orientation.
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Kathmandu Guest House, Hotel Yak And Yeti Or Dwarikas
You will rise early for sunrise at Swayambunath, or the Monkey Temple. After a climb up the 365 steps (if you can’t climb, you shouldn’t go trekking!), you will reach t...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Local Lodge
Today you will catch an early morning flight to Lukla. The airport here was built by Sir Edmond Hillary to link the upper Khumbu region with the capital, Kathmandu. An unexpected consequence o...
Meals Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Local Lodge
This morning, you begin by walking along the Dudh Kosi through forests of blue pine and rhododendrons.
Some of the farms you pass along the way supply fruits and vegetables to the Everes...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Local Lodge
Today is free to explore the town, visit the museum with its explanation of the history and ecology of the area, stop by the READ Library, send e-‐‑mails, and wander the different shops.
Meals Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
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After leaving Namche and climbing to the top of the ridge, you come to a level mountain path that offers an excellent panorama of Thamserku, Kanteiga, and Kusum Kangruru. To the right there is ...
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Accommodation: Local Lodge
You will spend today exploring Thyangboche and enjoying the monastery. Somewhere around the end of the late 16th century, due to a series of religious wars in Tibet, many of the Nyingmapas, or...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Local Lodge
Leaving Thyangboche with its representative Himalayan scenery -‐‑monastery, chortens, and the Khumbu Mountains as a backdrop, you descend through a rhododendron-‐‑covered area and emerge int...
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Rising early, as the sun is caressing the top of Pumo Ri, you follow a level path through the zone of ablation. Standing atop the moraine after a short climb, you look down upon the Khumbu Gla...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Local Lodge
You have a long day. After breakfast, you start by passing in front of a yak field and crossing an old glacial lateral moraine. Continue along the zone of ablation past a lake and emerge on th...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Local Lodge
You begin your real descent today, retracing your steps first to Dugla. Then you will take a new trail along the side of the hill, far above the valley floor. In bad weather, this trail can be...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Local Lodge
This morning you follow a steep trail up towards the town of Pangboche. This is the highest year-‐‑round inhabited village in the area. There is a small gompa that used to house a yeti skull....
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Local Lodge
Your trail once again winds through forests and along sweet scented hillsides, past mani stones, across the Dudh Kosi River, and back towards the town of Namche. Early in the morning, there is...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Local Lodge
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Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Kathmandu Guest House, Hotel Yak And Yeti Or Dwarikas
Arriving, you need to pray that your plane is on time and the weather is good. Assuming all is on schedule, you will be back in Kathmandu before lunch.
The rest of the day is free for resting, a massage, wandering, or just sitting at the hotel.
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: Kathmandu Guest House, Hotel Yak And Yeti Or Dwarikas
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Meals: Breakfast
The morning is free for last minute shopping. When appropriate, you will transfer to the airport for your onward flight.
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