Difficulty
Hard
Duration
18Days
Max Elevation
5755m Tashi Laptsa pass
Group Size
2-8
Accommodation
Teahouse
Transportation
Private Vehicle
Start / End
Kathmandu/ Kathmandu
On arrival at Kathmandu Tribhuvan International Airport, you will be greeted by our staff, who will escort you to the hotel, where our Sherpa guide or the office staff will give you a brief orientation about the hotel, Kathmandu itself, trekking, and the do's and don’ts of the area. They will also review any additional information that you might require while in Nepal, including an overview of the next day's sightseeing tour. In the evening, you will enjoy a complimentary welcome dinner at one of the finest traditional Nepalese restaurants in Kathmandu, with the necessary transfer to and from the hotel by taxi, bus. Overnight in Hotel
Max Altitude: 1300m/ 4265ft
After your breakfast, you will precede to Kathmandu Durbar Square, where you will tour the ancient palace, the temple of the Kumari, the living goddess of Nepal, Hanuman Dhoka, and Kasthamandav Temple with a guide knowledgeable about Nepalese history, architecture, and religion. From there, you will proceed by taxi, bus to the Buddhist site, Swoyambhunath Stupa, also known as the "Monkey Temple" because of its lively troops of resident monkeys. You will then visit Pashupatinath Temple, the holiest shrine for Hindus, situated on the banks of the holy Bagmati River, a popular cremation site. Before returning to the hotel, you will visit Boudhnath Stupa, a Buddhist pilgrimage center and home to many colorful gompas, or monasteries. Once back at the hotel, you will receive a briefing about the trek and have a chance to meet your guides and ask any last minute questions before tomorrow morning's departure. Overnight in Hotel
Max Altitude: 1300m/ 42656 ft
Today you will be driving to Gogatkhola via Mude (lunch spot), Charikot, Dolakha, Singati Bazaar and Jagat. The road is almost fine except in some of the places on the way from Dolakha to Gogatkhola. But the road has been greatly improved on recent days. After you reach to Gogatkhola, you will see a small bazaar where there are some houses with few normal lodges. This is the place as a small trading centre, where people around this area come here and collect their daily basic needs like rice, pulses, oil, clothes etc. And all these things are transported either from Kathmandu or the Tibet border, Kodari. There has been running Upper Tama Koshi hydro-Power Project, so this place is quite noisy this time but won’t be disturbed when we enter into the lodge or the tent. Overnight at Teahouse
Max Altitude: 950m / 3316 ft
Duration: 09 Hrs
Leaving Gongar, the trail continues along the west bank of the Tama Koshi, which narrows into a gorge, then reaches Chetchet and its beautiful waterfall. Having descended to almost the same height as our starting point after an hour or more walk, the climate here is once again hot and slightly humid. Shortly afterwards we cross the Tama Koshi river and make a steep climb for an hour to the village of Simigaon. After we finish the steep portion of the walk, we will have a gentle trek up to the village of Simigaon, where the overnight camp are beside a Gompa 20 minutes above the main village with more fabulous views of Gaurishanker. Overnight at Teahouse
Max Altitude: 2019m/ 6624 ft
Duration: 09 Hrs
From Simigaon, our route leads towards North East. Beginning the walk on a gradual uphill slope, we pass through the thick rhododendron and magnolia forests, and the pastures with numerous clearing that are used for summer grazing. In this area, the change from lush Tama Koshi to the mountain side of Rolwaling Valley is very apparent. Depending upon the season, if the monsoon flood has washed much of the trail away, (which is not a rarity during the monsoon season), we either take the high path that climbs steeply towards the ridge of the Sambur Danda, crossing the Daldung la at 3,976m, as this is a safer alternative. Our walk continues contouring above the hill side and then descending to the river passing more huts in an area called Gyalche. After reaching the valley floor we cross a small wooden bridge to our camp at Dovan, a small unlikely clearing in the dense forest of the steep valley side. Overnight at Teahouse
Max Altitude: 2791m/ 8920 ft
Duration: 05 Hrs
Today, crossing the Rolwaling khola we take a path that leads through the jungles on the Northern side. The walk heads to a gradual climb, and then comes to a clearing along little settlements of Nyimare, Ramding. We continue on through the farm fields and reach Beding for the overnight stop after a productive walking day with hours or more. We reach in time to visit Beding village. It is the principal Sherpa village in the Rolwaling area, and is situated in a narrow gorge enlivened somewhat by its well positioned Gompa, which comprises about thirty six houses. There is a Hillary school in Beding. Overnight in Teahouse
Max Altitude: 3700m/ 12139 ft
Duration: 06 Hrs
From Beding, onwards you can feel the increasing altitude and the cold chill from the surrounding high mountains. Our trek today will be a short walk of three hours or more along the Rolwaling River, going at it in an easy manner at this high altitude. The terrain has very impressive scenery of the surrounding high landscapes, and the snow capped peaks. The walk continues slowly in order to acclimatize, just before Na the valley opens out into classic, glaciated in U-shape. We reach our overnight camp at Na, which is a scattered village and a temporary settlement of the villagers of Beding and beyond. It is a summer yersa (grazing pasture), and potatoes are grown. There is a roughly built Monastery here. Our camp is made on this grassy field with time to relax and marvel the surrounding beauty. Ahead, up the valley beyond Na, the majestic summit of Chobutse 6,689m rises above the Tsho Rolpa at the confluence of the Ripimo Shar and Trakarding glaciers. Overnight at Teahouse
Max Altitude: 4180m/ 13713 ft
Duration: 04 Hrs
It’s a day for acclimatization in Na, with a chance to explore round the village. Overnight at Teahouse
Max Altitude: 4180m/ 13713 ft
After a pleasant time at Na, our actual adventure begins from here onwards. The morning walk begins as we cross the river to the south bank and then follow a shallow stream to a crossing point near Yersa at Sangma, the last place of the cattle herders. After the wooden bridge which we use to climb up on moraines, we negotiate our path steeply above the main stream until finally we reach the terminal moraine, near behind is the dammed of Tsho Rolpa. The lake sometime known as Cho Pokhari, we will make our campsite on sandy level ground to the south side of the Tsho Rolpa at Kabuk after 4-5 hours of scenic hard walk. From the camp splendid views of the surrounding peaks can be seen including Tsoboje at 6,689m.and Dragker-Go at 6,793m. Overnight at Teahouse
Max Altitude: 4560m/ 14960 ft
Duration: 05 Hrs
From camp, the path goes over the moraine above north side from the lake, continuing right along the moraine, occasionally passing rocks overhangs. The walk follows high slopes above the glacier to avoid the lower section, but further up we have to trek along the centre on the hard rocky glacier to our camp below the Drolambau ice-fall. Steady walk leads us to the lowest point of the icefall and then climbing to the easiest point to gain the Drolambau glacier. Around this section there is some danger of falling rock. The middle moraine provides a route up the glacier. We then stop overnight after finding a suitable campsite where the glacier flattens out. Here we will be surrounded by superb high mountain scenery in this wild and impressive place. Overnight at Teahouse
Max Altitude: 5400m/ 17716 ft
Duration: 05 Hrs
Today is the main high light of this adventure journey, which starts well before sunrise following the glacier again for one hour and thirty minutes. We will reach a spur which gives an easy access to our route on the upper glacier. It is here that we will fix ropes, and make steps and ledge for the porters. Although the terrain is not very difficult, it is just a precaution that we must employ in this kind of mountain landscapes. After everything is set for the final climb, a further 3-4 hours climb amidst wild and mind- boggling scenery leads us to the top of the pass at our highest point of this trek at Tashi Laptsa pass, where there are Buddhist prayer flags and cairns. This will be our longest day of trek and it’s important to keep up a good pace to ensure we reach our camp on the other side of the pass well before dark. From the pass, along with the magnificent view of the surrounding snow capped peaks, our walk follows downhill for another 3-4 hours towards Ngole and further near past the glacial pond of Parchemuche-tsho and just before Tengpo for the overnight camp at around 4,900m. Overnight at Teahouse
Max Altitude: Tashi Laptsa Pass (5755m/ 18881 ft
Duration: 08 Hrs
After a long hard day, the walk from here will be enjoyable most of the way to Namche and beyond. From the camp below the Khumbu side of the pass, our path follows eastwards over snow slopes. The trail from here is well marked and continues its long descent down the upper reaches of the Thame Khola to Tengpo, with excellent views of Mt. Ama Dablam, Mt. Makalu, and Lumding Himal above the Thame Khola. After an hour or more arriving at dozen or so Shepherd’s huts that makes this place Tengpo with wide pasture field. Another two hours of gradual descend will bring us to our end of our walk for today at Thame Village and our first hint of trekkers civilization since Beding. There is a very old and interesting Monastery at the upper end of the village. At Thame, the old trade route over the Nangpa-la into Tibet branches north, following the Bhote Koshi, which incidentally is the 2-3 river so named on this trek. Overnight at Teahouse
Max Altitude: 3800m/ 12467 ft
Duration: 05 Hrs
Today it is a pleasant walk down to Namche, which are an affluent rich Sherpa town and an important trading centre with a weekly Saturday markets. Fresh food products are brought up from lower villages to barter or sell. Walk leads east from the camp with a short downhill to the bridge over Bhote Koshi River, from the bridge 20 minutes climb to reach the gradual descend and passing through number of villages, mani, prayer walls and pass into the pine woods on this gentle winding path, after 3-4 hours of pleasant walk, Namche Bazaar comes into view from the top ridge where the trail splits into various directions. The north from the “Mani” stupa leads towards Khunde and Khumjung. Our route heads downhill with a view of Namche down below with colored roofed houses. After a 45 minutes descend reaching Namche for the overnight camp. Overnight at Teahouse
Max Altitude: 3450m/ 11318 ft
Duration: 05 Hrs
A leisure day, frees from the hassle of packing, a relaxing moment an optional hike to Khunde and Khumjung village, Everest View Hotel or around Namche. Overnight at Teahouse
Max Altitude: 3450m/ 11318 ft
Last day of this great trek will be another filled with good walk to Lukla; you can walk at your own leisurely pace, enjoying the lush green scenery around. Apart from few short uphill climbs, the only climb of any distance will be just before Lukla, which will take approximately 45 minutes from a place called Choplung or the “old big oak tree”. On reaching Lukla, prepare for the last day great dinner and a party with the fellow Sherpa crew, porters and trekking members. Overnight at Teahouse
Max Altitude: 2830m/ 9284 ft
Duration: 05 Hrs
The flight time to Kathmandu, are schedule for morning normally, because of the wind in the afternoon, sometime the flight time can be delayed due to bad weather and other reason beyond our command. As we get hold of the boarding pass depending upon our flight time we make our way to the terminal for security check, this scenic flight from Lukla takes about 45 minutes to Kathmandu, a panoramic view of the snow capped peaks can be seen from window of the plane. Arriving at Kathmandu domestic terminal, one of our Tour Officers will be waiting to receive and escort you back to the Hotel. Overnight in Hotel
Duration: 45 minutes
A free day in Kathmandu please let our staff know if you would like to go on another short tour in and around Kathmandu Valley or if you need to extend your stay for few days and join in our extension trip White Water Rafting, Jungle Safari, Paragliding or Bungee Jump. Overnight in Hotel
Keep the departure time of international flight in mind, and make sure to keep your confirmed air ticket and passport handy! Our staff will take you to the airport for your final departure from beautiful Nepal.
