Makalu Base Camp Trek
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Overview
Highlights
- Makalu Barun National Park
- Shipton La and Keke La Pass
- Explore Makalu Base Camp
- Sherpa Village
- Mt. Everest and Lhotse
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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Trip includes
- 24 hours access to our staff
- All ground transportation in a private vehicle
- Three nights (standard twin sharing basis) accommodation with breakfast at a 3 star category hotel in Kathmandu.
- Guided Kathmandu Valley sightseeing including entry fees and private vehicle
- Round trip flight from Kathmandu- Tumlingtar- Kathmandu including departure taxes
- Guesthouse accommodation during the trek in mostly twin-share and occasionally dormitory-style rooms
- Full board meals with tea/ coffee (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner) during the time of trekking
- Local professional, certified and experienced TMG's trekking guide and porters (One porter for 2 person)
- Food, accommodation, salary, insurance, equipment and medicine for all TMG's staff
- All necessary paper work and permits (National park permits, TIMS)
- All government and local taxes
- A comprehensive Medical kit
- Farewell dinner in a typical Nepali restaurant with cultural dance show
- TMG’s trekking accomplishment certificate with token of love
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Itinerary
Accommodation: Overnight at a hotel
We are waiting for you at Tribhuwan International Airport, from where we will take you to a hotel, or we will take you to our office. Take a rest, ask us questions, if you come in the afternoon, you will have a lot of time in the evening which you can use to visit Thamel, the tourist hub of Kathmandu.
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Overnight at a hotel
On this day you will receive the TMG’s staff and move to the Kathmandu valley sightseeing with the private vehicle.
During sightseeing, you will visit the UNESCO World Heritage Sites that are in...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Take a morning flight. From the window of an airplane, you will see the beautiful landscape. This landscape is made up of mountains, hills, and rivers. After some time,...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 6 hours
After breakfast, you start early in the morning. The trekking trail is easy, as well as scenic because it takes you to beautiful villages and l...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 6 hours
Following the descending trekking trail, you reach the forest, terraced farmland, and to the Barun River. You will cross this river. From the river, you follow an uphill trekking trail. There is a forest that marks the beginning of the Makalu Barun National Park.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 5 hours
The trekking trail is unique this time because it takes you to a hill which has two rivers on both sides, and their names are the Ipsuwa Khola and the Kasuwa Khola. Even on this hill, there are villages, and the people grow paddy. Passing through this, you reach Tashigaon.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 7 hours
Today, it is tough because you are going to walk on a steep trail that is not only steep but that is also at a higher elevation. There is a for...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
This will help you to prepare yourself because tomorrow you are crossing the pass, and its name is the Shipton La. During acclimatization, you can walk nearby hills, yo...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 6 hours
First, you will climb the uphill and then reach the top of the pass. The name of the pass is the Shipton La. You descend from this pass and rea...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 6 hours
You are at the lower elevation than the pass, still, you have to walk uphill. The trekking trail takes you to the Barun River, but first, it ta...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 5 hours
The trekking trail comes under the category of moderate although it takes you to the valley, yak pastures, lush forests and boulder fields. As ...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 6 hours
Today is the most important day because you will be at the Makalu Base Camp. On the way to the base camp, you walk uphill and reach Shershong. ...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Explore the base camp by telling your guide to show the highlights. You can visit its barren area, and you can also go to visit the Barun Glacier. As you head to this g...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 6 hours
It's time to go back to Yangro Kharka. As you head, you still see Makalu, the fifth highest mountain in the world. The trekking trail descends,...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 6 hours
Following the downhill trekking trail again, you reach the areas of rock, forest, and valley. As you walk in the forest, you will come across t...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 6 hours
Today, it is an uphill trekking trail, but it is very steep. You have to be careful, and as you are on the way, you come across the forest that...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 4 hours
On the way, you come across the dense forest and lakes. The trekking trail that you are following goes downward, and as you head from one place...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 4 hours
The trekking trail runs by the small streams. Following this trail, you leave the valley, and you will also have the last glimpse of the Barun ...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 5 hours
There is a dense forest on the way. This forest has trees of rhododendron and bamboo. After crossing this forest, you head to the Arun River. T...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included.
Accommodation: Overnight at a Guesthouse
Duration: 6 hours
The trekking trail is very steep, so you have to walk carefully, as you might slip. You are gradually leaving the Makalu Region, and you may be...
Meals: Dinner
Accommodation: Overnight at a Hotel
You fly to The City Of Temples. From the window of an airplane, you will see the dramatic landscapes. They consist of river, hills, mountains, and valleys. The mountains that you see are Makalu, Lhotse, and Everest. All of these are mountain giants, and their aerial views are equally beautiful.
Meals: Breakfast
We hope you have enjoyed Makalu Base Camp Trek with our guide. After having breakfast, you can pack up your luggage. Before 4 hours, we will come to pick you up at the hotel where you are staying and then take you to the airport in private transportation.
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Jun-04-2019
Dec-31-2019
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Logistics
What's excluded
- International Air tickets
- Travel and rescue Insurance
- Nepal entry visa
- Personal trekking equipment
- Personal expenses like water, laundry, phone and bar bills
- Extra night accommodation in Kathmandu because of early arrival, late departure, early return from mountain (due to any reason) than the scheduled itinerary. Expenses due to unavoidable events, flight cancellation, strikes and other
- Tips to your guide and porter. (tipping is expected)
- Any other expenses that are not mentioned in the ""cost includes"" section
Accommodation
Value - 3 start level accommodations - Trips labeled “Value” fall into a mid-range budget and the accommodations can range from comfortable lodges, guesthouses, and homestays to three star hotels.
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21 Breakfast, 18 Lunch and 20 Dinner
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