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Everest Base Camp Trekking (5,200m/17,056ft) - 15 days
Satori Adventures provides explorers an amazing opportunity to see the world from a quite higher and different perspective. Everest Base Camp trek is known for its stunning landscapes, alpine forests, Sherpa villages, chortens, and much more. While being in the Khumbu region that is in the North-East part of Nepal, it has made a name for itself as an achievable top of the globe. If you are incredibly excited about splendid mountain views and mesmerizing Nepalese beauty, this trail will broaden your horizons as far as ever possible. That is why it is the ideal destination when traveling in Nepal.
We want you to experience all the beauty the Himalayas offer. All you need is going on Everest Base Camp trek tours provided by Satori Adventures. As a reliable partner and guider in the highest mountain range on Earth, our company arranges all issues associated with the preparation, equipment, safety measures, group formation, and other procedures.
Here, we have a range of Mt. Everest Base Camp trekking itineraries that you can find according to your preferences. With the aim to end up with a never to be forgotten vacation, you to customize the journey as well.
Highlights of the Everest Base Camp Trip
Before plunging into the most exciting adventure that lasts 17 days, get to Lukla from Kathmandu. It will take you only 35 minutes to reach the destination. During the flight, you will admire the spectacular Himalayan scenery, including majestic mountains and local monasteries. Once all members of a trekking group are in Lukla, they will set off to Namche Bazaar (a famous village known as the capital of Sherpa) on foot. The next destination be the Dudh Koshi River and Tengboche. Everest Base Camp trekking is synonymous with spectacular views of Ama Dablam, Thamserku, Kusum Kanguru and Lhotse-Nuptse. Also, the area is famous for animal and bird species like red panda, musk deer, snow leopard, bharal, black bear, danfe, monal,and kalij pheasant.
Thus, it will take you 7 days to get to the Everest Base Camp. At the end of the trip, you will have 2 days of spare time in Kathmandu, and visit Thamel, get familiar with the local history, or do some shopping.
Adventure Cost
There is no fixed price for the Mt Everest Base Camp trek package offered by Satori Adventures. Its cost may vary depending on:
Journey duration. Weather and other conditions may affect how long trekking to the Base Camp lasts. It is 12-17 days.
Season. The cost may be higher in the spring and autumn time.
Package. Satori Adventures offers Luxury, and Budget packages to all trekking enthusiasts.
Trekking types is also the factor that affects the price of the journey. For Everest Base Camp trekking, it’s up to you to choose independent, guide, or all-inclusive type. Your experience while ascending this mountain also depends on people you are with. That is why it is recommended to count on a reputable agency like Satori Adventures.
With all features of the trip in mind, its cost may be from $500 to $10,000. As an option, you can choose the budget package that doesn’t cover food, facilities, and transportation fees when getting from Kathmandu to Lukla.
When Should You Embark on the Everest Base Camp Trekking Tour?
Although this destination is reachable throughout the entire year, spring and autumn are deemed to be the best seasons for climbing. For those who are planning to visit Khumbu region, it is required to get TIMS (Trekkers’ Information Management System) cards.
Special Aspects of the Trip
It is worth mentioning that Mt Everest Base Camp trek tour doesn’t require sophisticated climbing techniques and considerable experience. In fact, it is a long-distance walk that can be taken by any persistent and physically fit person. With our help along the trail, be sure you will successfully reach the camp. We have already guided people with extra and insufficient weight, kids, and the aged so they can feel all the beauty of the mountain.
You should be ready to take a long walk throughout the Khumbu region. The expedition to the Base Camp means you have to get to the destination from Lukla on foot. Otherwise, you can use helicopter services if you wish.
Everest Base Camp trek is fraught with some difficulties you should be prepared for. After the arrival in Lukla, you will face the challenge of crossing the distance of 65 km (that is 130 km when traveling back). Plus, this area is famous for its uneven terrain and zigzag trails. Cross no less than 5 km a day to stick to the trip schedule.
While getting from Lukla (2,860m) to the camp (5,364m), trekkers may have effects of high altitude. To reach the destination successfully, move at an unhurried pace according to the acclimatization instructions and other rules set by our team.
There is another potential difficulty you may face during the Mount Everest Base Camp trek trip. You should realize that the region will not provide you with delicious food and first-class facilities. However, the expedition will enable you to enjoy Nepalese hospitality and natural beauty to the fullest.
Preparation Guide
With all trip difficulties in mind, Satori Adventures recommends you to maintain your physical fitness and take exercises regularly before choosing the Everest Base Camp trekking tour. Add cardio and weight-training programs to your routine to train your legs, shoulders, and back. Such activities as swimming and cycling are also of importance to get into shape. Try to walk on foot as often as possible until you can move 5 hours without rest. Besides, you should consume high-protein food to get the most out of its health benefits.
If you need more details about the trip, please browse our website or contact our experts.
Facts of the Trip
Highest access: 5,200m/17,056ft
Duration: 15 Days
Group Size: 01-10 persons per Group.
Co-ordinates: 28°00'23'' N / 86°51'438'' E
Location: Khumbu Region
Country: Nepal
Airport: Kathmandu
Departure From: Kathmandu
Grade: Moderate+ fairly Strenuous
Accommodation: Three star to five star as request
Meals: During The Trek (B,L,D)
Transportation: Private car,Flight
Best season: Autumn(September to December &(Spring) March to May
Major Activity: Trekking/Hiking
Include Activity: Sights trips of Kathmandu
Culture: Sherpa, Tamang
Mode of Travel: Tea house
Himalayan sights: Mt. Everest, Amadablam, Lhotse, Nuptse, Pumori and more
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Itinerary Details
Day 01: Arrival at Kathmandu Airport & transfer to requested hotel accommodation in Kathmandu (1350m/ 4430ft.).
Day 02: Drive from Kathmandu to Ramechhap and Flight to Lukla and trek to Phakding (2650m/ 8695ft.) (4-5hrs) lodge accommodation.
Day 03: Trek from Phakding to Namche Bazaar (3440m/11287ft, 06-07hrs) lodge accommodation.
Day 04: Acclimatization day, Hike to Everest view hotel (3800m/12468ft) for sunrise or panoramic view of Everest Lhotse face, after lunch explore Sherpa and Hilary museum at modern village of Namche.
Day 05: Trek from Namche Bazaar to Tyangboche (3860m/12665ft ,05hrs) lodge accommodation.
Day 06: Trek from Tyangboche to Dingboche (4250m/13943ft, 5hrs) lodge accommodation.
Day 07: Acclimatization day at Dingboche, Hike to Chhukung (4750m/15584ft.) for better acclimatization before climbing up to Kalapatthar and Everest Base Camp.
Day 08: Trek from Dingboche to Lobuche (5018m/16464ft, 04hrs) lodge accommodation.
Day 09: Trek from Lobuche to Gorakshep (5170m/16962ft, 03hrs). Explore Everest Base Camp and overnight at Gorakshep. Lodge accommodation.
Day 10: Trek from Gorakshep to Kalapatthar (5200m/17060ft, 06hrs) and back to Dingboche (4250m/13943ft, 05hrs) Lodge accommodation.
Day 11: Trek from Dingboche to Namche Bazaar (3440m/11287ft, 05hrs) lodge accommodation.
Day 12: Trek from Namche Bazaar to Lukla (2860m/9383ft, 04hrs) lodge accommodation.
Day 13: Fly from Lukla to Kathmandu (1350m/4430ft) Transfer to Hotel.
Day 14: Free day at Kathmandu for shopping and explore around Thamel, farewell dinner with culture program in the evening.
Day 15: Drop to airport for final departure, or join alternative activities.
Cost Include/Exclude
Price For the Trip
- The cost depends upon the group size.
- The cost can affect Guide and Porter numbers.
- The cost depends on request category hotel accommodation in KTM & PKR
- The cost depends on the mode of transport (private car, flight or tourist bus)
- The Itinerary can be change on your desires.
- The Itinerary mentioned above is from Airport to Airport Service.
- The Itinerary can be design according to your time and budget.
- Please contact us for up to Date, Cost and the Duration.
The services we provide in the package
(Cost Includes):
- To ensure your safety and avoid the natural panic of people entering a new destination for the first time, Satori Adventures provides pick-up and drop services from international and domestic airports on your arrivals and departures.
- Representatives of Satori adventures will be waiting for you on arrival at both domestic and international airports with a Satori banner with your placard so that you can easily find our person. Satori's identity card will accompany the person for your confirmation.
- According to the above trekking package schedule, Satori Adventures will arrange Three nights demanded category (from tourist star to five-star) of hotel accommodations in Kathmandu.
- Satori Adventures will provide Experienced and government authorized (licensed holder) high altitude trekking guide during the trekking period.
- Surface transportation will only be included during the trekking and major city for members as per the itinerary.
- According to the schedule program, Satori Adventures arranged regular flight tickets from Kathmandu to Lukla and Lukla to Kathmandu for trekking members and guides.
- Apart from Camping trekking, Satori Adventures Will provide you with a lovely tea house (except chain hotels) to stay in and eat during the trekking.
- Most of the trekking trail, lunch is done on the way between the starting and ending the day of hiking while dinner and breakfast at the tea house where you have your overnight stay. Satori Adventures provides a clean and fresh breakfast, lunch, and dinner with tea/coffee at the tea house's menu throughout the trekking.
- We will provide clean and warm down jackets and sleeping bags during the trekking, taking care of your comfort and health to not have a cold problem and do not weigh too much on international flights.
- Satori Adventures allow up to 15kg of personal trekking equipment per person during the flight onboard and the trekking period carried by porter or yak or mules.
- As Everest base camp is at the Mount Everest National Park territory, Satori adventures provide you a permit for Mount Everest National Park.
- The Trekkers' Information Management Systems permit issued by the trekking agency association of Nepal is required to enter the area of Everest National Park, so Satori adventures provide you a TIMS permit too.
- As far as possible, we will provide you weather reports throughout the trekking period.
- Satori Adventures provides all wages, clinical, equipment, and accidental insurance for all elaborate trekking staff.
- We provide first aid medical kits for the group and the staff, taking care of your climbing and health safety.
- Trekking trails are often inaccessible and far from information, communication, and transportation in the Himalayas, so that information communication is a significant factor for safety and a successful trip. That's why Satori Adventures provides satellite phones with your trekking guide in case of emergency required.
- During your trekking, satori adventures offer you clean, Nutritious, and fresh food at the tea house.
- Satori Adventure always has a concern and top priority about our trekking guides, cooks, porters, and involved trekking staff safety during the period of trekking. For this reason, we always do medical insurance, helicopter evacuation insurance, and treatment insurance for all engaged staff with a reputed insurance company.
- For your convenience, we always provide maps of related trekking trails.
- The above offer price includes our official service charges, government charges, and all taxes and vat. Except for the above amount, there are not any hidden costs charged by us.
- If you need any assistance with departure information, Flight ticket reconfirmation, Visa extension procedure services, Satori adventures fully support you without any charges.
- We want to offer you to have dinner with us before you departed from Kathmandu. It will be an opportunity for you to see and learn about Nepali culture and tradition. Thus, satori adventures offer you farewell dinner at a typical Nepali restaurant with a cultural show in Kathmandu before departure.
- Before your departure, as a memory of your lifetime experience, Satori Adventures would like to handover Satori T-shirt/Pashmina and Brochure.
Things you need to manage yourself in the package
(Cost Exclude):
- Kathmandu is Nepal's capital, and since this place offers high quality and delicious food from different countries and groups, we were hoping you could taste the food you like. For that reason, during your stay in Kathmandu, you will have to arrange lunch and dinner (except farewell dinner) yourself.
- Suppose you want to take any packed food, snacks, aerated drinks, energy drinks, mineral water, and carbonated soft drinks, any types of alcohol, cigarettes, chocolates, and nutria-bars during the trek. In that case, you have to buy it yourself as a customer often requires these items during the trekking. No, and there is no guessing how much it will take by the client and its cost.
- Expenses incurred towards usage of Items of personal nature trekking equipment, laundry expenses, tips, Landlines, mobiles, walkie-talkies, satellite phones, and the internet service exclude in the package. You have to pay for it yourself when you use it.
- Trekking is, in itself, an adventurous activity that always takes place in remote areas. So, safety is the primary factor for us. Therefore, you have to have your travel insurance covering the cost of emergency rescue, medical treatment, medical tests, and hospitalization before you arrive for the trip to Nepal.
- The package cost offered above does not include your international flight ticket and Nepal's tourist visa, so that you have to pay for your international flight ticket and tourist visa yourself.
- Any extra expenses arising out of various/unforeseen situations like natural disasters, landslides, political disturbances, strikes, changes in government regulations costs exclude in the package cost.
- Additional costs for extra workers then what we have included in the package.
- The short sentence, "The services we provide in the above package cost inclusive," will cost extra if you want additional services.
- Employees involved in your trekking are hoping for tips, gifts, or something at the end of the trip, which is an opportunity to say how happy you are with our staff and what kind of service you have rendered. Your guide and porters expect tips according to the international system in the trekking package for your information.
Price for the trip
Satori Adventures could not include the cost of each package in the company website. Most of our clients have the same query i.e. why Satori Adventures had not include the price in the package. To provide your service in reasonable cost and attempt to address your each requirement, we desired to provide you with some information which directly affects the cost and also helps us breakdown the cost. That’s why, we have clarified our customers that because of following reasons we have not included the cost in our website and package:
- The trip cost always depends on group size, hotel accommodation category and client’s desire budget
- The included itinerary is a guideline and standard pattern which Satori Adventures advises you. This trekking itinerary can be modified according to your time and requirements.
- The itinerary shall be changed after an understanding between both Satori Adventures and the client. Additional activities could be either added or reduced as per client's request before the trip confirmation.
- Price shall be adjusted in our mutual understanding, if the client intends to add some services we shall charge him/ her for those additional services and if he/she intends to lessen some services, we shall wave the charges accordingly.
- The itinerary is published in full board services for the better understanding to the client. Among many options such as hotel facilities in Kathmandu and Pokhara, the client can make his/her own choice.
- The cost is also affected by the number of employees‒ guides and porters.
Please contact Satori Adventures for any information about in your selected package.
How to Book?
How to book holiday trip in Nepal?
Satori Adventures and Expedition aims at giving proper information to many travelers, trekkers and climbers who have some confusion regarding the booking process of the trip in Nepal. Satori Adventures therefore desires to provide a guideline for the first-time visitors or travelers so they can comfortably start the process to book the selected package legally. Before starting the booking process we always advise our trekkers, travelers and climbers to check whether the company is genuine and whether they are fully safe to travel in the company’s guidance. We ask them to be acquainted with the company they want book their holiday trip with. Is the company genuine and are authorized from Government of Nepal, Office of the Company Registrar, Department of Tourism and Civil Aviation, Nepal Rastra Bank ‒Central Bank of Nepal (authorized for foreign currency), Permanent Account Number (PAN), and the Department of Cottage & Small Industries. Are they financially secured and environmentally conscious? We advise them to make sure about these formalities because there are some companies in Nepal that have been running a business without abiding by the rules and regulation of the Government. Some companies were once registered but by now their licenses have already been expired and yet they have providing the services illegally.
On many occasions, Government of Nepal and Trekking Agency Association of Nepal have found that many foreigners’ tour operators, NGOs and INGOs have been involved in directly operating tours, trekking, and mountaineering holiday adventures without having government license and abiding by the Government rules. It’s been found that many individuals, freelance guides and porters have been arranging trips illegally by creating their own personal website. We have observed that many trekkers and climbers face a host of problems once they arrive in Kathmandu as they lack adequate information. Many file complaints to Nepal Government and Trekking Agency Association of Nepal for legal action and advanced payment refund.Hardly any justice is given to the cheated clients.Thus, so as to prevent all these probable problems we request our travelers to check the company before booking any trip to the Himalayas.
To confirm and process your trip booking please follow these suggestions:
- Please select the itinerary and detail information from our website, that is to make sure which package you want to book with us.
- At the bottom of the itinerary (end of the page of the package) you have the following options: Book now, ask expert, write a review and print. Once you click book now bottom, it will l take you to booking page; ask expert will allow you to e-mail us in case of any query related to the package.
- Our typical itinerary includes transfer from and to the airport. We can provide you with any type of accommodation from budget to 5 Stars. So please indicate the class of hotel you wish us to book or name your preferred hotel. You can also state all additional services apart from those mentioned in the itinerary.
- The web page itinerary is a guideline and a standard pattern which helps you plan your trip. It can be changed or modified according to your time & requirements.
- If you wish to expand the itinerary with additional activities, please let us know by mail. Satori Adventures builds your customized itinerary with the adjusted price.
- There are many fixed departure dates and itinerary packages in Trekking and Mountaineering in our package. If you wish to join with our fixed departure with group, please contact us. The cost in this option is always pretty low compared to a private trip.
- Before you confirm the trip, you have to read and understand what is included and excluded in the cost. It is also important to read terms and conditions. If you require additional services which are not included in cost, please mention them all in the booking form.
- Please contact us if you are still unclear about the information or required service. You have to read our Terms and Conditions before you book the trip; it explains to you the booking timing, the deposit and advance payment requirements, policies, procedures for cancellation, refund and the payment classification.
- Once we have agreed mutually on itinerary, you required and the price for the trip; you have to send us the deposit to confirm the booking as specified in our quotation according to our Terms and Conditions. Once advance payment is received, we will do process for confirmation of trip.
- Without conformation and advance received we may not process for Permits, TIMS, Flight Tickets, Trekking and climbing Guide, Porters and other necessary Staff for trekking and expedition along with food, transportation, etc.
- With your conformation of the trip and advance payments we require copy of your travel document (passport), passport-size photo, and your flight reservation details.
- For details on the payments of the trip and time frame you have to follow our terms and conditions.
Please kindly submit Trip Booking Form when you confirm the trip with us. It will be easy for us to process for your trip conformation and prepare all legal processes and permit for the trip. If you have any query, always feel free to contact us at any time. We always want to make sure our clients are well informed before confirming the trip.We advise you to visit our website for related package and further information.