Mount Everest Base Camp Trek from Kathmandu

Are you planning to visit the Everest region? If yes, waking is one of the most popular activities to mount Everest base camp from Kathmandu. There are several entry places to trek to the Everest base camp from Kathmandu, and you must visit Kathmandu before traveling to mount Everest. Relugar and popular Everest base camp trek itinerary is 12 days, but you can make it shorter or longer according to your time frame. Lukla to Everest base camp is the most popular trekking route to the base camp, which begins with an adventure scenic flight to Lukla from Kathmandu or Ramechhap. After landing at Lukla airport, you start walking to Phakding on the first day of the mount Everest base camp journey through Chheplung, Thadokoshi, and Ghat villages. You trek to Namche Bazaar next from Phakding and take one day's rest for altitude practice in Namche. Then, the trek goes to Tengboche, Dingboche, and has another rest day in Dingboche. After completing an altitude practice hike to Nangkar-Tsang hill, you trek to Lobuche on the next day. Gorakshep is the last destination before you hike to the base camp. After visiting the base camp, you hike up to Kalapatthar in the morning, then trek back to Pheriche, Namche, and Lukla before taking a flight back to Kathmandu. You see the great Everest Himalayas including 3 high mountains above 8000m like Everest, Lhotse, and Makalu during the base camp trek walking inside the Sagarmatha national park (natural UNESCO world heritage site). Visiting Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, and monuments, seeing high Himalayan vegetation, attractive landscapes, beautiful valleys, waterfalls, rivers, and wildlife, meeting mountain Sherpa people, and many more highlights that you can see during the mount Everest base camp trek.

Mount Everest Base Camp 12 Day Trek Itinerary

It takes 8 days to reach EBC from Kathmandu including 2 rest days in Namche Bazaar and Dingboche. Check an outline itinerary, that you follow during the mount Everest base camp trip from Kathmandu here: Day 01: Fly to Lukla (2840m) from Kathmandu or Ramechhap and trek to Phakding (2610m) 3 hrsrnDay 02: Trek to Namche Bazaar (3440m) 6-7 hrsrnDay 03: Rest day in Namche and hike to hotel Everest view (3880m) 3 hrsrnDay 04: Trek to Tengboche (3860m) 5 hrsrnDay 05: Trek to Dingboche (4410m) 5 hrsrnDay 06: Altitude practice rest day in Dingboche and hike to Nangkar-Tsang hill (5085m) 4 hrsrnDay 07: Trek to Lobuche (4910m) 5 hrsrnDay 08: Trek to Gorakshep (5180m) 3 hrs and hike to EBC (5364m) 4-5 hrs (both ways)rnDay 09: Hike to Kalapathar (5550m) 2 hrs and trek to Pheriche (4210m) 5 hrsrnDay 10: Trek to Namche Bazaar (3440m) 7 hrsrnDay 11: Trek to Lukla (2840m) 7 hrsrnDay 12: Fly to Kathmandu or Ramechhap and drive to Kathmandu – 4 hrs You can finish the mount Everest base camp trek in 9 days, which is a shorter trekking itinerary of the Everest base camp. You follow the same itinerary of the 12-day one until the base camp and Kalapatthar and then fly out to Kathmandu direct on a helicopter on the 9th day. If you do not have enough time to complete the whole regular itinerary or do not use the same way to Lukla following the same itinerary, that you already have visited on the way up, this short mount Everest base camp trek can be the best option for you. You can also travel to mount Everest base camp directly from Kathmandu within an hour if you do a helicopter tour of the base camp. This 4 hrs helicopter ride offers beautiful views of the Everest Himalayas, attractive landscapes, religious monuments, valleys, and more with landing on several vantage viewpoints such as the hotel Everest view and Kalapatthar. If you do not have enough time for a long base camp trek or can not walk in the high Himalayan lands with cold temperatures, this helicopter ride tour to Everest is one of the best options to explore the world’s highest mountain region.