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TOT: 9 Day Nepal Trekking Tour with Mount Everest View

Tour Type: Private Tour: Flexible Travel Date & Travel Routes

Guide & Driver: English-speaking guide & air-conditioned

Highlights:

Experience the thrill of landing on one of the world’s shortest runways at Lukla, Nepal;
Trek through some of Nepal’s beautiful Himalayan pine and cedar forests to see the world’s highest mountain peaks, including Mount Everest;
Explore mysterious monasteries, including the Tengboche Monastery inside the Sagarmartha National Park.

Itinerary

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Day 1 Arrival in Kathmandu

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Upon your arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport, your local guide will greet you and escort you to your private car to transfer you to your downtown Kathmandu hotel. You will have the rest of the day to relax in your hotel or you can begin to explore the local area on your own.

Accommodation: Overnight in Kathmandu

Day 2 Depart Kathmandu – Flight to Lukla – 3-Hour Trek to Phakding

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Early this morning we will pick you up from your hotel to take you back to the Tribhuvan airport for your flight to Lukla. The flight itself will be an amazing experience as the airport runway in Lukla is one of the shortest in the world at 527 meters (1729 feet) long at an altitude of 2845 meters (9344 feet) above sea level. After the thrilling landing at the airport, we will begin our trek on to the small village of Phakding, which should take us about 3 hours. It is a fascinating hike as we can observe how the local Nepali people have adapted to living at high elevations. Phakding lies in the Dudh Kosi river valley at an elevation of 2610 meters (8563 feet). After our hike, we will check into a local guesthouse for the night.

Accommodation: Overnight in Lukla

Day 3 Phakding to Namche Bazaar (6-Hour Hike)

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Today our trek up towards Mount Everest continues with a 6-hour hike following the Dudh Kosi river from Phakding to the small town of Namche Bazaar, which is situated on a hillside with its lowest point at 3440 meters (11,286 feet) spreading upwards on the hill from there. We will pass through beautiful Himalayan pine and cedar forests along with some spectacular mountain peak views along the way, including our first glimpse of Mount Everest. The village of Namche is a historic trading post where Nepalese and Tibetan traders exchange salt, dried meat and textiles and it remains a main trading hub for the area for both Himalayan and lowland merchants. After today’s hike, we will check into a local guesthouse for the night.

Accommodation: Overnight at Namche Bazaar

Day 4 Namche Bazaar – Everest View Hotel – Namche Bazaar

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Today as we become acclimatized to the higher elevation, we will take a short hike to the Syangboche Airport (3780 meters), which is an unpaved airstrip and reportedly the highest airport in the world. From there we will continue climbing on to reach the Everest View Hotel for fantastic panoramic views of Mount Everest, Lhotse, Amadablam, Tawache and many of the other highest peaks of the Himalayan mountain range. On the return hike we can visit the Sherpa Culture Museum and Everest Photo Gallery with its interesting exhibits of ancient Sherpa culture and their ways of life before tourism took over the region. After visiting the museum, we will return to the guesthouse to spend the night.

Accommodation: Overnight at Namche Bazaar

Day 5 Namche Bazaar – Tengboche Monastery (5-Hour Hike)

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Today’s hike begins with a flat and easy trai towards Mount Everest, then descends deeply into the Dudh Kosi Valley at Pungki Thanka before ascending towards the Tengboche Monastery at an elevation of 3867 meters (12687 feet). The Tengboche Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery and the spiritual center of the Khumbu region. This monastery sites inside the Sagarmartha National Park, which has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site due to its “outstanding universal value” and it offers a panoramic view of Mount Everest and other well-known Himalayan peaks. After exploring the monastery, we will check into a local guesthouse for the night.

Accommodation: Camping or Guesthouse

Day 6 Tengboche Village – Khumjung Village – Namche Bazaar (6-Hour Hike)

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This morning we will depart from Tengboche and descend to Pungki Thaka and then on to Khumjung Village (elevation 3790 meters/12434 feet) where we will visit the school built by Sir Edmund Hillary’s Himalayan Trust and the Khumjung Monastery, which has a reported Yeti scalp. From there we will descend back to Namche Bazaar where will check into a local guesthouse to spend the night.

Accommodation: Camping or Guesthouse

Day 7 Namche Bazaar – Trek to Lukla (7-Hour Hike)

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This morning we will depart Namche Bazaar, again following along the Dudh Kosi River through the spectacular scenery back to Lukla where we will spend the night in a local guesthouse.

Accommodation: Camping or Guesthouse

Day 8 Depart Lukla – Flight to Kathmandu

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This morning we will catch an early flight back to Kathmandu, with the scenic flight taking only about 30 minutes. At the Kathmandu airport, your local guide will greet you and take you by private car to your hotel, where you will have the rest of the day to rest and relax, or you can explore the local area on your own.

Accommodation: Overnight in Kathmandu

Day 9 Depart Kathmandu

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Today will be free until your local guide takes you back to the Kathmandu airport about 3 hours before your flight’s schedule departure time.

Accommodation: None

Price Includes.

Private professional English-speaking tour guide.
Private transfer listed.
All accommodations, based on double-occupancy.
Meals noted in the itinerary as "B,L,D".
Admission fees and activity expenses, as noted in the itinerary.
Service Charge (the planning, handling, operational and communication charges) & government taxes. Tourists Accident/Casualty Insurance

Price Excludes.

Nepal visa (your local tour guide could help you get it if necessary).
Sightseeing not listed in the itinerary.
Meals not listed in the itinerary (all lunches and dinners).
Personal expenses such as laundry, drink, fax, telephone call, optional tour activities, etc.
Gratuities, tips to guides, drivers, bellboys, etc.
Flight tickets in and out of Nepal
Single room supplement.
Additional tour service and/or activities.

Booking Information

1.The above routes accept Chinese people(people from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) and foreign visitors to attend the group booking, foreign guests and Taiwan tourists to Tibet, please contact us to apply for Tibet Permit!

2.Due to Covid-19, there has international travel restrictions for Tibet travel, so we can not guarantee travelers in one group are all English speakers. Our professional tour guide will provide Chinese-English service if there has English speakers in the join-in group. Therefore, we will not make any reimbursement for tour guide language reason.

3.June, July, August, September is peak season. Joining our group can guarantee the ticket of Potala Palace. The Potala Palace may be adjusted to the other days because of the current limitation of 2,300 visitors per day to protect the historic site.

4.Without affecting the original standards and scenic spots, we might change the sequences of scenic spots according to the actual situation on the day of the trip.

5.Patients with severe hypertension, asthma or heart disease should not join the group. Patients with colds should only go to Tibet after recovery.

6.Due to force majeure factors in case of landslides, mud-rock flow, avalanche, flood, earthquake and other natural phenomena influence or airline flight delay, cancel to causes such as the increase of expenses or unable to follow a normal schedule, we shall not bear the liability for compensation according to the tourism related regulations, but we will actively coordinate processing, in order to ensure a smooth trip.

7.Any failure to complete the activities during the tour due to the guests' own reasons or early departure will be considered as a waiver and the fee will not be refunded.

8.Tibet is a borderland area inhabited by ethnic minorities with limited tourist reception conditions. We hope that visitors can have reasonable expectations, respect the cultural beliefs and living habits of ethnic minorities and live in harmony with each other.

9.If there is a single room due to gender reasons, we will arrange a triple room (or double standard room with and extra bed) or fill the single room difference by the guest.

10.The shops in scenic spots do not belong to the travel agency's shopping shop arrangement. Please consider carefully.

11.Self-paid items are considered according to the time and the proportion of the approved members on the day, and no mandatory consumption is made.

Warm Tips

1.Travelers with severe high blood pressure or heart disease should not go to Tibet. Please do not bring serious colds into Tibet. Don’t go before the serious colds recovered!

2.Tibet is located in the plateau and most of the travelers might have plateau reaction. Please pay attention to rest and have proper diet (do not eat too full, because it will increase the burden of the stomach). Travelers can be appropriate to take some drugs, such as: Gaoyuan An, Rhodiola, Nuodi Kang; travelers with serious can appropriately take oxygen or hanging saline.

3.Because of the long drive in Tibet, travelers will spend a lot of time in the car, and inevitably can not eat on time, please bring some snacks and biscuits during drive.

4.Due to the special conditions in Tibet, please pay attention to keep warm. On the first day of arrival, please do not try to take a bath. Taking a bath will accelerate blood circulation and increase the body's demand for oxygen.

5.Tibet has a strong sunshine, especially dry climate, sunscreen, sunglasses, lip balm and other essential are necessary.

6.From April to November is the best time for sightseeing.

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