Day 1 : Arrival in Kathmandu(1400M/4430ft).
Arrival in Kathmandu Airport and transfer to the hotel, hotel accommodation in Kathmandu (1400M/4430ft)
Visit The Majestic Everest Gokyo Lake (5357m/17575ft) 15 Days
Trip Facts
Group Size
1-20+ Pax
Meal
B,L,D
Grade
Fairly Strenuous
Accomodation
Hotel/Lodge
Transportation
Car, Flight
Best Months
Autumn/Spring
Starts/Ends
Kathmandu
Trekking Style
Moderate-Hard
Trekking Region
Everest Region
Highest Access
5357
Duration
15 Days
Airport
Kathmandu (TIA)
Visit the Majestic Everest Gokyo Lake Overview
Explore scenic views of the Everest Gokyo Lake trek
Behold majestic views of the Gokyo lake and valley which are located on Mount Everest, approximately 4, 7000 meters above sea level. Gokyo Lake trekking is an excellent alternative to the famous Everest Base Camp trekking. This trek is less crowded and challenging. It is also the ideal option If you want to walk around Everest region, see snowcapped mountains, encounter highland culture, experience local people’s hospitality, and visit one of the largest glaciers in the world. There is hardly a better adventure, right?
Enjoy one-of-a-kind beauty of the Gokyo Valley trek in Nepal
Gokyo Valley trek is another name for the Gokyo Lake trek. The advantage of this trek is that you’ll be staying in lodge accommodation for the majority of the 16-day trek. You’ll also have an opportunity to visit Kathmandu and the Everest View Hotel on your acclimatization day. The trek allows to get acquainted with Sherpa culture, visit ancient monasteries and learn about Buddhism. Of course, you will also see breathtaking views of the mountains and glaciers, lush rivers and lakes, lovely valleys and villages. So, don’t forget to take your camera with you to take lots of unique photos.
Start your Everest Gokyo Lake trekking adventure the right way
The Gokyo trek in Nepal begins with the trip from Kathmandu to Luka. You will have a change to get a first glimpse of the Himalayans by looking down from your window seat on a plane. From Luka, you will move towards the Dudh Koshi River Valley together with your trekking crew. The high-altitude trek will take you to some of the highest mountains in the world, including Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, Ama Dablam and other. You’ll get special treatment as you will be making your way through the mountains. You’ll come across the glacial valley and its icefalls below the Everest mountain. As you trek by the ancient monasteries that belong to Khumbu culture, you’ll see Sherpa villages, colorful forests of rhododendrons, and more.
How much does it cost to do trekking to Gokyo
The cost of the Gokyo trek in Nepal varies. It depends on your choice of transportation, accommodation, services, and whether you want to travel with a group or alone. You can book a trip in a charted plane or join a group of 10+ to get to the starting point by bus. We can offer you regular accommodation or add additional services to better serve your needs. All our trips are organized on a case-by-case basis to make sure travelers get the experience they want. Contact us to discuss your preferences and find out how much the Everest Gokyo trek will cost you.
How to book your trip
Before booking your trip, make sure that you are aware of all regulations and have the necessary permits for your trekking adventure in Nepal. To be on the safe side, make a reservation only with a reliable and reputable company that knows what needs to be done. A good company will arrange a trip that conforms to the law, and it will collaborate well with local people. Contact Satori Adventures, a trusted tour company. We will create an itinerary together with you and make sure you get the best deal possible. Get ready to make unforgettable memories when doing Gokyo Lake trekking in Nepal!
Route Map
Visit the Majestic Everest Gokyo Lake Detailed Itinerary
Day 2 : Drive to Ramechhap and fly from Ramechhap to Lukla then Trek to Phakding(2650m/8,694ft, 04hrs).
Drive to Ramechhap takes around 05 hrs. and fly from Ramechhap to Lukla, 15 Minutes, then Trek to Phakding (2650m/8,694ft, 04hrs).
Day 3 : Trek from Phakding to Namche Bazaar through colorful Khumbu villages (3440m/11286ft, 06hrs).
Trek from Phakding to Namche Bazaar through colourful Khumbu villages (3440m/11286ft, 06hrs); Lodge accommodation
Day 4 : Rest day for acclimatization then hike to famous Everest View Hotel (3800m/12487ft, 3hrs).
Rest day for acclimatization; you will hike to the famous Everest View Hotel (3800m/12487ft, 3hrs) to catch a glimpse of Everest; explore the Hilary and Sherpa museum at Namche in the evening with slide show program.
Day 5 : Trek from Namche Bazaar to Dole (4110m/13485ft, 05 hrs.)
Trek from Namche Bazaar to Dole (4110m/13485ft, 05 hrs.) lodge accommodation.
Day 6 : Trek from Dole to Machherma (4470m /14665ft, 06hrs).
Trek from Dole to Machherma (4470m /14665ft, 06hrs) lodge accommodation.
Day 7 : Trek from Machherma to Gokyo(4790m/15715ft, 06hrs).
Trek from Machherma to Gokyo (4790m/15715ft, 06hrs) with lodge accommodation.
Day 8 : Trek from Gokyo to Gokyo Ri and Explore Gokyo Lake(5357m/17575ft, 06hrs).
Trek from Gokyo to Gokyo Ri (5357m/17575ft, 06hrs). Explore Gokyo Lake, lodge accommodation.
Day 9 : Trek from Gokyo Ri to Luza(4360m/14304ft, 05hrs).
Trek from Gokyo Ri to Luza (4360m/14304ft, 05hrs) lodge accommodation.
Day 10 : Trek from Luza to Namche bazar (3440m/11287ft, 06hrs).
Trek from Luza to Namche Bazar (3440m/11287ft, 06hrs), lodge accommodation.
Day 11 : Trek from Namche Bazar to Monjo (2840m/9318ft, 06hrs) .
Trek from Namche Bazar to Monjo (2840m/9318ft, 06hrs), lodge accommodation.
Day 12 : Trek from Monjo to Lukla(2860m/9383ft, 05hrs).
Trek from Monjo to Lukla (2860m/9383ft, 05hrs) lodge accommodation.
Day 13 : Fly from Lukla to Ramechhap and drive to Kathmandu(1350M/4,430ft, 05 hrs)
Fly from Lukla to Ramechhap, 15 minutes, then drive to Kathmandu (1350M/4,430ft, 05 hrs). Hotel accommodation.
Day 14 : Rest Day, Fare well dinner with culture program in the Evening.
Rest Day, Fare well dinner with culture program in the Evening.
Day 15 : Transfer to the airport for final departure.
Transfer to the airport for final departure.
Cost Details
Visit the Majestic Everest Gokyo Lake 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.
Visit the Majestic Everest Gokyo Lake Cost Excludes
- 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.
Package Options
Service Details
Visit the Majestic Everest Gokyo Lake Standard Service 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.
Visit the Majestic Everest Gokyo Lake Standard Service Cost Excludes
- 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.
Good to Know
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.
