Mount Everest Tour is the shortest tour to Everest. This is an adventure tour to Mount Everest. It is in the heart of the Nepal Himalayas.The 5 day Everest tour is suitable for all inexperience and non-fitness levels. If you would like to keep your eyes on the summit of Everest and forget about your fear of heights.This is the best Everest holidays trip that explore both Kathmandu's cultural sites and also the Everest Base Camp by helicopter.
Thousands of people visit Nepal for its culture, religion and the dramatic natural landscapes of the Himalayan. Mt Everest, the world’s tallest peak and the crowning jewel. It rises 8,848m above sea level. This Mount Everest holidays will take you to the Everest Base Camp for a short time to view jaw-dropping scenery in spades.
The best time to enjoy the Himalayas and views of Mt Everest are from early September through the middle of June when temperatures are relatively warm and the skies are clear and blue. But winter is cold still good time for Everest Tour. June to August is rainy season in Nepal, we do not recommend this tour during this time.
The 5 days Mount Everest tour is our best selling tour in Nepal. It covers the best attractions of Nepal including Kathmandu tour and Everest Base Camp Tour by helicopter. This is a small group of around 5 people on average. We will care to each client. Our well-design itineraries give you an authentic Nepali experience. The trip also opens full exposure to local culture and customs as well as the beauty of the Himalayas.
Mount Everest Tour highly recommeds. You will have a great experience on short 5 days Nepal tour. This is really a once in a lifetime memory tour of Mount Everest.
Trip Itinerary
Day 01Kathmandu Airport
45 minutes from Airport to Thamel BB Plan-Breakfast Standard Accommodation hotel in Kathmandu
You will be received at Kathmandu airport by our representative holding your name plate. After formal meeting,and welcome with a traditional flower garland and transferred to your hotel. There is an option of familiarization walk to the old Kathmandu in the suburb of tourist center of Thamel.
Day 02Kathmandu Tour
Full day Sightseeing BB Plan-Breakfast Standard Accommodation hotel in Kathmandu
Come down to the Hotel restaurant for breakfast. Your tour guide will be introduced. Today Kathmandu city tour visit Swayambhunath, Boudhanath, Pashupatinath and Kathmandu durbar square-Kathmandu Durbar Square is known by Basantapur Durbar Square, the former residence of Royal Kings of Nepal where you can see the living goddess Kumari. She is considered as a living form of goddess Kali or Taleju. In addtion, there are pagoda style temple, erotic wood carving on the truts of the temple, courtyards, mask of Bhairav and also the local and the sadhu pass by on the streets.
Swyambhunath Stupa - Swayambhunath is also called Monkey temple since the monkeys show different dramatic activies to the visitors. The stupa perched a top the hill towards the west of Kathmandu Valley. This is sacred religious sites of all. Apart from the religious significance, Swayambhunath stupa is famous for the panoramic view of Kathmandu valley.
Pashupatinath Temple - Pashupatinath devoted to lord Shiva is one of the four most important religious sites in Asia. The temple is built on 5th century and renovated by later rulers time to time. There you can see human world from loving birds, crippled, begger, dead body cremation, mourning people and holy men Sadhus. This is really a interesting heritage sites of Kathmandu valley.
Boudhanath Stupa - Boudhanath is one of the most famous heritage sites of Kathmandu valley. This is the best landmark of Kathmandu Tourism. It locates 8 km toward the east of Thamel. The 36 meter high stupa is one of the biggest stupas in South Asia. Boudhanath is the focal point of Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhism in Nepal, incalculable religious communities encompassing it.
Day 03Kathmandu to Everest Base Camp Tour (4 hours) by Helicopter
65/90 minutes flight BB Plan-Breakfast Standard Accommodation hotel in Kathmandu
Receive you at your hotel in the morning and drive to the airport. Check in and board on Helicopter, and fly to Lukla that takes 45 minute scenic flight. Land for 10 minute at world's most dangerous airport Lukla for refueling, and take off, and flying high towards Everest Base Camp via Namche, Tengboche, Pheriche, Dingboche, turning over Everest Base Camp and Khumbu glacier to Kalapatther for 35 minute flight and land at Kalapatther for 10 to 15 mintues to take the best photos and view of Mount Everest, Base Camp and Khumbu ice fall, and then take off Kalapatthar and fly to Everest View Hotel, the best vantage point for Mount Everst View, Khumbu valley and the surrounding Himalayas. We stop at Everest View Hotel 40 to 50 minutes for breakfast with enjoying the best view of Mount Everest, and return helicopter flight back to Kathmandu that takes 65 minutes. Once arrive, receive you at the airprot and drive back you to hotel. Leisure time in the afernoon.
Day 04Patan and Bhaktapur Tour
Full day Sightseeing BB Plan-Breakfast Standard Accommodation hotel in Kathmandu
Breakfast and drive to visit Patan city of fine arts. Patan is better known as "The city of a thousand golden roofs." Once separated from the capital, Patan and Kathmandu are now separated only by a bridge over the Bagmati River. The city of Patan has recovered its label of origin "Lalitpur". The historic heart of the city is entangled with narrow streets and theatrical decoration-brick houses with carved wooden balconies and bronze decorations, patios and backyards that house oratories, temples. The city is famous throughout the country for its tradition of blacksmiths and goldsmiths. Artisans model effigies of the divinities of the Hindu and Buddhist pantheons. The city has more than 50 main temples, some of which were destroyed or damaged by the earthquake of April 2015. Many stupas, chaytyas and bahal-ancient Buddhist monasteries bear testimony to the long history of Buddhism in the city that remains today a Bastion of Newars Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley. The four stupas erected in the four cardinal points, originally defined the city. They were erected during the reign of Emperor Ashoka some 250 years before our era.Ths sightseeing points in Patan are Patan durbur square and Museum, Golden Temple, Kumbeshwor Temple, Mahaboudha temple and Rudravarna temple.
After Patan Tour and we drive then to Bhadgaon also known as Bhaktapur-the "city of devotees". Founded in the 9th century it is the home of medieval art and architecture. Here you can visit the Durbar Square, with its array of temples, and the Palace of 55 Windows. This Palace is the best example of the Pagoda style of architecture and stands on five terraces, on each of which stands a pair of figures: two strong men, two elephants, two lions, two griffins and two goddesses. Walk around Bhanktapur that includes Bhaktapur durbar square, Nyatpole temple, Dattratraya sqaure and Pottery square and after Bhaktapur tour we drive you back to Kathmandu.
Day 05Kathmandu Airport
Before 3 hours you will have reach TIA airport BB Plan-Breakfast Standard Accommodation hotel in Kathmandu
Breakfast, receive you at your hotel and transferred from your hotel to the airport to get your flight back to home.
What's included?
Full fledged Cost
- Airport transfer - hotel/airport/hotel
- Twin sharing standard hotel accommodation with breakfast in Kathmandu before and after travel we can book only on your request.
Elementary Cost
- Private vehicles transportation/ Tourist Bus service for all tour destination.
- Helicopter service for Everest View
- English Speaking guide and all his expenses like salary & allowance.
- All government taxes, vat, company service charge.
What's not included?
- Lunch and Dinner in Kathmandu.
- Entrance sightseeing fee in Kathmandu.
- Travel Insurance in case of emergency for rescue and other medication.
- Nepal visa fee
- All kind of hot and cold drinks - coke, fanta, beer, whisky, bottle of water, hot water, tea, coffee etc.
- Tips for guide and porter
- Personal expenses like wifi, hot shower, telephone, battery charge fee.
- All the cost not mention on above cost includes.
FAQs
Yes, you can get on arrival tourist visa at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu. Most of people can obtain visa on entry to Nepal. There are some countries visa will needed to be organize prior to travelling. $25 for 15 days of visa from the date of issue, $40 for 30days and 100US$ for 90 days tourist visa. You need two photos.
You can apply online visa from 1st of March(http://www.online.nepalimmigration.gov.np/).
Yes, our agency airport representative will pick you up from airport. We will be displaying name card of Mission Eco Trek with your name on it. and when you finished you trip we will drop you to airport. Pick up and drop is complimentary from our company.
Autumn (September to November) and spring (March to May), these are the best season to go on a trek. But according to the will of the traveler, the visiting and travelling in Nepal can be managed. Travelling in Nepal should be done during the summer time or September to November and March to May at the low lands can be done at throughout the year.
The travelling at the different parts of Nepal will be different according to the distance of the travelling destinations. Generally, there are different places where one can go for short and long travelling takes generally about 1 day or more week also.
While travelling in Nepal, meals are prepared good quality standards of hygiene, fruit and vegetable soaked . The food along the trail will be simple and a mix of local and international cuisine. If the traveler is camping , then they will mainly be served with the local foods of Nepal and as well as continental and western foods. In Kathmandu you will find meals in good quality tourist restaurants. Most of hotel serve good quality meal & filter water which is safe. It is possible to buy the bottle of mineral water in the trip.
While visiting to Nepal, tour guides is almost mandatory to travel in Nepal for everyone. When you hired one your trip will lot more informative and memorable. You get lots of knowledge about country. But if the traveler is well experienced and have visited at different places of Nepal many times then s/he may not need the tour guides. But tour guide can play big role to make your travel. They will provide informative information about the destination along with its surroundings. Similarly, if any problems will arise during the travel, then the guides will solve it easily and it will be rather difficult for the traveler themselves to solve them.
Yes, Nepal is safe to Travel. Safety during the trekking or travel in Nepal is one of the prime concerns that every trekker or traveler want to know. In the past, Nepal has experienced political unrest, however since November of 2006, the signed Nepal Peace Agreement, between the Government of Nepal and the Nepal Communist Party (Maoists) has brought this unrest to a close. but now there is the situation of peace and tranquility in the field of trekking as well as in whole Nepal.
Besides, the trekking stakeholders in Nepal are also forwarding several steps for the safety of the trekkers. Now after election democratic parties will lead the government and rule the nation that’s why the huge possibility has seen in safety. Yes, there are pick pockets here, as you find in other countries so keep your belongings safe at all times. You need to take usual precautions as you would traveling anywhere in the world.
If someone get sick in the group, a fellow trekker in the group has to descend, then a porter/assistant guide would go with them. So the person descending would be well looked after and it would not impact on the rest of the group's experience. Emergencies are dealt with by the guide and depending on the severity.
Our Guides carry a comprehensive medical kit. But you should bring your own personal kit and carry it with you when on the trek. It should contain antiseptic cream, throat lozenges, headache pills, diarrhoea treatment, re-hydration salts eg Dioralite, Lemsip, plasters and Compede for blisters.
The hotel in Kathmandu provides the free storage services. So you can leave all your items that are not required for the trekking at your hotel or you can leave in our office too.
This is a difficult thing to gauge. We have seen everything from USD 20 to USD 1000 per person for guides and porters. Tipping is not required, but a small gesture of thanks to your guides and local porters. The level of the tip should reflect the level of satisfaction from and personal involvement with your guide. However, we recommend you to spend minimum 10% of your total trip cost for tipping entire local staffs, the ratio of tipping guide and porter will be given to you at the pre-trip meeting in Kathmandu before starting the travel.
Yes, all our trips are guaranteed to run. We never cancel the trip due to not having enough participants; we can arrange the trip for one person as well as a private trip at very minimum additional cost. Please inquire about this during the time of booking.
According to thee size of your groups, it differs. The vehicles will be small and light so that it can be handled easily and safely through the narrow roads of Nepal. It can be a car, minibus, land cruiser, van, Jeep.