5 Days Everest View Trek

Begin your day with excitement and eagerness. Depending upon your flight time to Lukla, you can either have your breakfast at the hotel or get it packed if you have an early flight. You will be transferred to a domestic airport. Suggested is to take the left pane of the aircraft so that you enjoy the panorama during the 35 minutes of flight. As you land at Lukla airstrip, you will meet the rest of the crew (porters), you can have tea/coffee while the porters rearrange your luggage to be carried on their back.

Your trekking guide will lead your way through National Luminary Pasang Lhamu Memorial Gate from where the route to epic journey begins. Your TIMS will be registered in the entrance there at Police checkpoint and after one hour of walk, we have our lunch at first lunch stop in Thado Koshi. If you prefer to walk couple of hours more, then we can also have our lunch directly at our lodge in Phakding. Walking aside Dudh Koshi river, crossing suspension bridges and having a glass of mango juices at quick stops, we finally arrive at Phakding. Your rooms keys will be handed over by our guide, take rest, and have nice time at dining hall, enjoy exploring nearby monasteries, villages, later dine at around 7.30 and have a first good night sleep at one of the quality lodge. Walking time: 3 to 4 hours, Accommodation: guesthouse.  

As the darkness ends and sunlight shows up, we take our good morning meal at warm dining hall, pack and submit our duffel bag to porter team and get ready for a day’s walk. Following the instructions and briefing from trek leader, we follow him through rocky forest trails, enjoying the overall atmosphere, the children’s smile, passing donkeys, rhododendron trees and layers of hills. We enter through Sagarmatha National Park entrance gate, the stone steps and large mani stones, it will be mostly downhill walk until we stop at our lunch stop of the day at Jorsale.

In this way, challenging uphill walk to Namche begins after having our lunch on the course of which we cross numerous suspension bridges, Hillary bridge being the most iconic one, we will have our first view of Mt. Everest after few minutes of hike from bridge if weather is clear. And as the day progresses, clouds start to form with slight chances of rain, cool wind blows and finally we will be at popular Sherpa town of Namche Bazaar. The amphitheater style village with plenty of hotels, lodges, restaurants, bakery, shops and ATM services our trekking guide will show your way to hotel where we have our dinner and stay overnight. Comfortable wooden and stone built lodges, inbuilt coal warming at dining and quality rooms will make bring you’re a good night sleep. Walking time: 5 to 6 hours, Accommodation guesthouse.  

Mountain scenery welcomes trekkers for yet another day in the bustling tourist filled town of Namche Bazaar. Today trekkers get to spend their entire day in Namche Bazaar to make sure that we get properly acclimatized for our upcoming journey which is bound to go at higher altitudes than Namche Bazaar. One should never mess around with altitude as it can get pretty risky for you to continue on with your trek. With the increase in altitude, your body struggles to receive needed amount of oxygen in your blood streams which are necessary for the proper functioning of your vital organs such as brain and heart. Keeping that in mind, you have to manage your itinerary accordingly with a full day just for acclimatization in Namche Bazaar. Nonetheless, you can go out and make short decent hikes to nearby villages and monasteries as it enhances your body’s ability to acclimatize. Staying inside one’s, room whole day can make matter worst so you have to remain active for the entire day in which you can travel anywhere but close to Namche Bazaar. Magnificent mountain vistas can help you pass the day easily while the foreign bars and cafes can be a great place to get a conversation going. You never know when you can find some new friends up in the Himalayas. Stay overnight at Namche Bazaar.

Accommodation guesthouse.  

Well we hope you enjoyed viewing the soaring summit of Mt. Everest as we now have to head down all the way to Lukla today. After finishing our breakfast, we shall pack our bags and tighten our shoe laces to continue our trek which goes downward to the lower hill areas of Lukla from Namche Bazaar. Keeping our easy pace walk we again cross several high suspension bridges, you may remember walking by the trail as you previously been there few days ago. Continuing on, we now cross the Hillary Bridge and other several bridges which can be seen copiously festooned with Buddhist prayer flags all over. Now as the altitude decreases and the amount of oxygen molecules starts increasing so you may feel the air getting denser and denser. Similarly, the temperature also starts to rise higher than at Namche bazaar as trekkers try to approach Lukla which is located far below Namche Bazaar. Trekkers can encounter many stupas and monasteries, mani walls along their route down to Lukla and can start hearing the sound of rushing Dudh Koshi River flowing strenuously below. We pass through several forested trails with rhododendron and pine trees covering large areas while seeing some of the last glances of the snowcapped mountains. As you reach Lukla, you take rest inside a local lodge and spend your remaining time by enjoying the local dishes before going to sleep. Stay overnight at Lukla.

Walking time 6 -7 hrs, guesthouse. 

As scheduled, today we have an early morning flight back to Kathmandu which can take us over some of the most beautiful hills and valleys. After flying for about 40 minutes, you shall be transferred to your hotel rooms by a representative of Icicles Adventure. While inside your room, you can rest and stay relaxed or may go out for some souvenir shopping in the Thamel area. Last of all, you shall return back to your hotel room and start packing up all your things for your departure flight tomorrow. Stay overnight at Kathmandu.

Overnight in hotel. Included Meals: B