Best Ways to Explore Everest Himalaya and Reach Everest Base Camp
There are several ways to explore with Everest Himalaya and reach the Everest base camp from Kathmandu. One of the most popular ways to explore Everest Himalayas and region well is through a trek. But, people with a short time holiday in Nepal also can explore Everest Himalaya and reach the Everest base camp without many days of the trek.
However, you have essential information on this post about reaching Everest base camp from Kathmandu, if you are searching for needy ideas to explore the Everest region in Nepal.
Explore Everest Region With a Trek
Trekking to the Everest base camp from Kathmandu has different itineraries with various entries. Long treks begin from Jiri and Salleri to the base camp. Jiri route is one of the oldest hiking routes to the Everest base camp.
You can reach Jiri by driving a bus from Kathmandu. The bus drives through the hillside roads passing some beautiful valleys, settlements, hills, farming lands and many more natural beauties. After spending a night in Jiri, the walking journey goes ahead to Bhandar, Sette, Junbesi, Nunthala, Kharikhola and Chaurikharka. Then, you will join to Lukla Everest base camp trek route.
Likewise, another long trekking plan is to start walking from Salleri. Salleri route is the youngest trail among two others. It has just started a few years back. There was no overland transportation but Phaplu got an airport. Phaplu airport didn't have a regularly scheduled flight from Kathmandu.
Also, by long jeep drive takes you to Salleri from Kathmandu then starts walking journey towards Everest base camp passing Phaplu, Taksindo, Wapsa, Surke and Chaurikharka. Here in Chaurikharka, you meet the Lukla EBC trail.
Lukla to Everest base camp track is the busiest one compared to the other two routes. This way starts with a short scenic flight to Lukla from Kathmandu. Then, you trek to Phakding on the first day. After a night spend in Phakding, you trek to Namche on the second day. The third day is a rest and altitude practice day in Namche Bazaar. Today, you hike up to Everest view hotel passing Syangboche airport.
Merely, you trek to Tengboche, Dingboche and Lobuche before reaching the base camp. It takes eight days including two acclimatization days then treks back following the same way after the Kalapatthar hike. It takes three long days trek to arrive at Lukla then you fly out to Kathmandu after one night stay in Lukla.
Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour
Everest base camp helicopter tour takes you directly to the Everest base camp from Kathmandu within an hour. It is a couple of hours luxurious flight tour. You can get a group to join the trip or make it a private tour.
Everest base camp helicopter tour is the fastest way to explore Everest Himalayas and reach Everest base camp from the capital city of Nepal. Usually, the flights operate in the morning with clear visibility. There will start big wind during the day so, it may affect for the landing and taking off in the higher lands.
After taking off from the Kathmandu airport, it flies to Lukla and lands for refuelling. Landing for about 10-15 minutes in Lukla, it flies to Syangboche (Everest view hotel) or Pheriche for the second land flying over Namche, Tengboche and other beautiful villages through Dudhkoshi and Khumbu river valley. Here n Pheriche, a group departed from Kathmandu divides into two different groups for different suttles Then flies towards Kalapatthar. You can take some beautiful clicks from Kalapatthar from where you can see the nearest view of Mt. Everest. After a short land in Kalapatthar, you fly over the base and Khumbu glacier on the way back to Pheriche. Now, the people who were dropped off on the way up here, do the same that you would have done earlier. Then, you will fly out to Kathmandu altogether.
It is recommended to fly to the Everest base camp in autumn and spring. There will be clear visibility during these times and more possibilities of successful flight tours. Stunning Everest Himalaya with many others like Langtang, Ganesh Himal, Gaurishankar, Tibetan mountains, landscapes, traditional villages, religious monuments and more attractions are the things to explore during the Everest base camp helicopter tour in Nepal.
Everest Mountain Flight
Everest scenic mountain flight takes you very close to Mt. Everest and other high mountains like Lhotse, Kanchenjunga, Makalu, Cho-Oyu and more for a quick view via a plane flight. This extreme mountain flight tour begins from Kathmandu and lands back at the same place after a successful flight trip.
The mountain flight tour operates in the morning with a clear day. Mountain flight operating plane has a single seated space for the travellers and flies both directions to show mountains well for the people who seat any sides of the plane. Everest scenic flight tour is the fastest and cheapest way to explore Everest Himalayas from Kathmandu. Different airline companies are operating this flight tour every day in the morning. Hopefully, you got general information about exploring the Everest region and reaching the base camp from this post. Now, it is up to you to choose any of mentioned above according to your budget, time frame and interest.
