Of all the trekking trips in the Himalaya, trekking to the base camp of the highest mountain in the world gets the most attention from trekkers. If you are also looking forward to going the trekking holiday, you have chosen the right trip. This article gives you a better insight on the Everest Base Camp Trek cost and itinerary.
Everest Base Camp Trek Cost and Itinerary Breakdown
As you are looking forward to going on the trekking adventure to Everest, knowing about a few things like cost and itinerary will make it easier to plan. If you check our Everest Base Camp Trek, you will come across the cost and itinerary.
Let us talk about where the money you pay for the trip goes and how the itinerary breakdown works in the mountain.
The Everest base camp trek cost you pay for the trip buys various services to you during the trip. Here is a general breakdown of where the cost goes.
Hotel and Transportation
When you sign up for the adventure, your accommodation and transportation comes in the package. The Everest base camp trek itinerary takes you to Kathmandu and several places up in the mountains where you need accommodation. You will stay in a hotel in Kathmandu and in guesthouses in the mountains.
The cost also covers all the ground transportation necessary to carry out the activities in the itinerary. You do not need to worry about hotel and transportation while you are on our package trip.
Guide and Porter
As a Himalayan trekking adventure, you will need a trekking guide to lead your trip and porter to carry your backpack in the mountain. When you sign up for our package service, guide and porter are the part of it.
The guide makes sure of your safety during the adventure. He also ensures that you have fun time and experience beautiful memories of the adventure. Porter will carry all your stuff that you need in the mountain and make your adventure comfortable.
Flight Ticket and Trekking Permit
Although the trips starts in Kathmandu, the trekking adventure starts from Lukla in the Everest region. You need to take a flight to Lukla and the Everest base camp trek cost covers your flight ticket to Lukla and back to Kathmandu.
You also need to obtain trekking permit and pay national park fees to go trekking in the mountains. The cost you pay also gets you all the necessary permits and we will make sure of everything needed.
Food
When you sign up for our Everest base camp trekking adventure, we cover your breakfasts in Kathmandu and all major meals in the mountains. You do not need to plan and organize your meals during the adventure. We will take care of your meals along the trekking route to the base camp. You just enjoy trekking and beautiful surroundings. You will be able to choose your food from the menu.
However, you go for your own lunch and dinner in Kathmandu.
Now that you have an idea of what the Everest base camp trek cost covers on your trip, let’s have a look at the Everest base camp trek itinerary breakdown.
Everest Base Camp Trek Itinerary Breakdown
The itinerary of a total of 11 days of in the mountains has three different stages.
- 6 days of walking up towards the base camp
- 2 days of rest days along the trail upward
- 3 days of walking down from the base camp
Going up towards the Everest base camp takes longer and, as we gain elevation, we need enough days to rest. But going downhill is just half of what it takes us to go up.
We hope that this article has given you an idea of the trip cost and itinerary which will make it easier to plan the adventure.
Let us know if you have any more questions about the adventure.
Author: Step on Himalaya
Date: 7th December, 2021
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