Can't trek to the Everest base camp or don't have enough time for it? don't worry! you can reach to the Everest base camp from Kathmandu within a couple of hours.

Not only trekking to the Everest base camp is not an option to reach the base camp. You can use another easier way to reach the Everest base camp. Let's check the fastest way of reaching the Everest base camp.

Flying over traditional Sherpa villages such as Lukla, Namche Bazaar, Tengboche, Pheriche, Gorakshep, Khumbu glacier and landing on Kala Patthar is one of the greatest flight tour experiences in Nepal.

Everest base camp helicopter landing tour offers a great opportunity of encountering with massive Everest Himalaya, landscape, traditional villages, green hills and much more.

You can reach the base camp and see a closer view of the Everest and its range from 3 different ways. Trekking to the base camp, taking a scenic mountain flight and flying with a helicopter are the main ways to see the Everest. There are 3 different trekking routes to reach the base camp. Taking a bus drive to Jiri and trek all the way to the base camp, taking a jeep drive to Salleri and flying with a small plane to Lukla are the entrances to the base camp.

These trekking trails to those people who have enough time and physically fit for the trek. But the people who don’t have enough time and really would like to see the Everest or want to stop at the base camp, there are other options. Let’s go to those options now:

Everest Scenic Mountain Flight

Everest scenic mountain flight is one of the cheapest ways to see the world’s highest mountain Everest. There are several airline companies operating this flight tour every day from Kathmandu airport. The planes for this kind of flight tour have single sitting seats on both sides and flies to both directions so people from each side can see the mountains well.

It is a couple of hour’s flight to the Himalayas and lands back in Kathmandu. The cost of this flight is 200 USD including airport transportation. You need to take a passport for this flight and can wear any kind of dress that you would like to wear. You will get a flight certificate after the trip to Kathmandu airport.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour

The Everest base camp helicopter tour is an exciting flight tour with landing on the mountains. If you don’t have time but want to be at the base camp and would like to see the Everest standing right in front of this huge mountain, this helicopter tour is one of the best options.

The helicopter takes off from Kathmandu airport and flies over the beautiful traditional villages crossing lots of green hills. Once reaches in Lukla, and lands and refill the fuel. Then, it flies towards the Everest view hotel where you can enjoy the great Everest Himalaya with breakfast. It will be two different shuttles from the Everest view hotel to the base camp and lands on Kala Patthar and fly back altogether to Kathmandu.

It cost 1000 USD for this tour in a sharing helicopter and costs 4500 USD for a charter flight. If you charter, you even can fly around the Everest and make your own schedule but if you take a sharing flight, you need to stick with the group plan. You need to take a passport and change amount with you for this tour and wear warm clothes. It will be cold where you will land in the mountain.

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Book this Everest base camp helicopter tour with your beloved, family and friends. If you are on seminar or on transit for the Tibet and Bhutan tour from Nepal, you can try this amazing tour experience.