What is the Jiri to Everest Base Camp Trek, and why choose this route?

The Jiri to Everest Base Camp Trek retraces the early Himalayan expeditions, offering a unique and less-trodden path. It spans 22 days, with 20 days of trekking, providing a comprehensive experience through lowland trails and high-altitude regions. Trekkers explore UNESCO World Heritage sites, ethnic villages, and reach the iconic Everest Base Camp, enjoying the expert guidance of Nepal Highland Treks.

How challenging is the trek, and is acclimatization adequately addressed?

The trek is moderately challenging, encompassing a mix of lowland and high-altitude trails. The itinerary incorporates acclimatization days in Namche Bazaar and Dingboche, crucial for adapting to higher elevations and minimizing altitude sickness risks. The professional trekking guide ensures a gradual ascent and monitors trekkers' well-being.

Can the itinerary be customized, and what are the trekking highlights?

The itinerary is customization based on preferences and time constraints. Highlights include UNESCO sites in Kathmandu, ethnic village exploration, Everest Base Camp, and the exhilarating climb of Kalapathar for panoramic mountain views. Nepal Highland Treks offers a flexible approach to cater to individual interests.

What is the suggested packing list, and how is altitude sickness managed?

Trekkers are advised to pack essentials like warm clothing, trekking shoes, and a down jacket. Altitude sickness is managed through gradual acclimatization, and guides are trained to recognize symptoms. Adequate hydration and communication with the guide are emphasized to ensure a safe trek.

What is included in the trek cost, and how are emergencies handled?

The cost covers accommodation, permits, meals during trekking, a professional guide and porter, and more. Emergency situations are managed through the trekking guide's expertise, and the itinerary includes emergency rescue management. Trekkers are urged to have travel insurance for unforeseen circumstances.

Is the trek suitable for solo travelers, and what cultural experiences are included?

Both solo and group travelers are welcome. The trek includes visits to UNESCO sites, interactions with Sherpa communities, and exposure to local culture. Solo travelers can join existing groups or opt for group departures facilitated by Nepal Highland Treks, ensuring a rich cultural experience in the Everest region

Jiri to Everest Base Camp Trek | Everest Region Trekking

Jiri to Everest Base Camp Trekking starts from low land walking for about a week before reaching the high altitude of Everest region. The trekking path follows the previous Everest Expedition path before the Lukla airport at operation. The first week of a trek across the grain of the country over high passes and through the deep valleys of the Khumbu region. Jiri to Phakding path is less trekkers, basic tea houses on the way, and an unspoiled landscape. We then catch the regular trekking trail to Everest Base Camp and trek back to Lukla for flying back to Kathmandu at the end.

Our 21 daysJiri to Everest Base Camp Trekking itinerary includes enough trekking preparation time in Kathmandu. Accept that, visit the UNESCO world heritage site of Kathmandu Valley with our professional tour guide. Drive to Bhandara via Jiri town towards North West of Nepal through the mountain road. As you trek low land of the region get a mix of ethnic groups of Brahmin, Chhetri, Gurung, and Tamang. As you climb up, you then get ethnic Sherpa settlements with their typical lifestyle. Biggest monastery at Tengboche village, Tengboche monastery, and another small monastery, Chortern on the way with a hanging colorful prayer flag. The Highland Everest Base Camp is a memorial reaching the world’s highest base camp, climb to Kalapathar for a closer view of Mount Everest and other hundreds of snow-capped peaks.

Jiri to Everest Base Camp Trek itinerary can combine as per your interest. You also can trek back again in the same way to Kathmandu from Jiri. If you do not have 3 weeks' time, you should consider our 16 days Everest Base Camp Trekking, or 14 days Gokyo Lake Trekking which are starting and ending at Lukla. If you want to make a very short day trekking in the Everest region to see the place from where you can view Mount Everest and other Himalayas, you can choose our Everest View Trekking. For a real adventure, you can choose a challenging trek crossing the most famous highest passes in the world Renjo La, Cho La, and Kongma La with EBC. The professional team of Nepal Highland Treks makes any trip a lifetime experience. Our dedicated team respond to your reply on time and suggest you best one.

Accommodation in the trip

Our package is including 4 nights hotel in Kathmandu. It is 3 star category hotels with breakfast and twin sharing. Accommodation in entire trekking is in local tea houses (Local guest house) on twin sharing. You will get rooms with inside toilet in on the way from Jiri, Phakding and in Namche. Rest of the overnights are room without toilet inside. All the tea houses are providing common toilets outside your room. Everest trekking region after Dingboche may have over flow of trekkers in peak season, in that situation, you may share common room with other trekkers. It may happen in Gorakhshep and in Lobuche.

Foods in the trip

Kathmandu has lots of restaurants to choose for your Lunch and Dinner. Breakfast is including in the package that is provided by same hotel you are staying. During your trekking, same tea houses you are going to stay provide you breakfast and Dinner. Lunch is on the way local restaurants at suitable place. All the foods during trekking is including in the packages. Hotel and restaurants provide you international standard foods in entire Everest Trekking. It is suggest choosing vegetarian foods. Meats are not fresh in the region since it should carried from out the of the region.

Guide and Porter

Your guide to Everest Trekking via Jiri is from Kathmandu. Our trekking guide is more responsible, friendly, helpful and English speaking. You will meet him in Kathmandu before starting your trek. Porters are aslo from Kathmandu. Usually there will be 1 porter for every two trekkers. He is able to carry total 25 kilogram. Both guide and porters are fully equipped, insured and package including their foods, accommodation on the way. Trekking guides are those who can communicate with you and local peoples and having enough knowledge of local places, peoples, their cultures and having knowledge of high altitude sickness.

Drinking Water during Trekking

Drinking water is extra cost from package. During the trek it is available bottled mineral water, boiled water fill in your own bottle from every tea houses or can use even normal water from Tap. Bottled mineral water is available in every guest houses, shops in entire Everest Base Camp Trekking. As you hike high altitude, cost of bottled mineral water and boil filtered water increase. Water from local taps can be also used as drinking water by purification with purification tablet and filter it yourself. Most of the trekkers are drinking bottled mineral water and boiled filtered water. Trekkers are using local tap water rarely.

Equipment list

You do not need to bring whole equipments from your home country. Good trekking equipments with reasonable cost are available in Kathmandu. We can suggest you to buy those after we check it in hotel before starting of trekking. Representative from Nepal Highland Treks or your guide can provide you good suggestion. Our itinerary has enough time to be prepared with your proper equipment.

Clothing List

Round cap to protect from sun during sunny day
Warm head cover cap
Muff to cover mouth from heavy wind and cold
2 pairs warm inner thermal and inner trouser
1 pair warm outer trouser
1 pair warm wind proof warm outer trouser
One pair light and warm jacket or sweeter
One pair down jacket
One pair wind proof jacket
2 pairs light shocks
2 pair warm shocks
1 pair light shoe or sandal
1 pair warm water proof trekking shoes
2 pairs light trouser or half paint for walking during day and hot temperature
3 to 4 pairs of light t-shirt
Warm glove
Rain coat (cover body and backpack)
20 litter polar bag for trekking, carrying yourself (Trekking bag pack)
Duffel bag or big polar bag to hand over with your goods to our Porter *
Down Sleeping bag with its Inner * (* = Nepal Highland Treks can provide in returnable based)

Other accessories
Head lamp with enough battery
Camera and its battery
Battery charger
Trekking stick
Phone and charger
lip care
Sun cream
Toilet papers
Hand wash lotion
Thoth brush add paste
Washing shop and bath shampoo
Quick dry towel

First Aid Kit Medicines

In every trekking package, our guide will carry first aid kit box containing medicines of anti altitude, anti Diarrhea, pain relief, Antibiotic, anti cold, anti vomiting, anti headache, fever, bandages, handplast and anti septic lotion . If you are taking any regular medicine that is compulsory to bring yourself.

Some Dos and Dont’s during Everest Trekking

Trekking route of Everest is unspoiled and exotic land which is sensitive. Treat the land and local peoples with care and respect. Try your best to keep environment clean and show appreciation for culture and traditional religious beliefs.

Make Everest region litter free: Do not through any litter; put it in dustbin fixed by national park or in local tea houses. Sanitary napkins and tampons should be wrapped properly and through it right place. Take batteries back to your home country for safe disposal or reuse.
Respect local cultures, custom and peoples: Route of Everest is combination of different cultural ethnic group of local peoples. Their culture, customs, living style and any function is typical and it is important for them. So respect all these while you are there. You can involve respectfully in those function.
Take your guide with you in every hiking and climbing: our guide will be always with your while trekking every days. You are trekking and hiking in remote areas with maximum altitude. Few days in the itinerary are as acclimatization day and hiking around for recovering stamina. Take your guide with you in all these activities. It is Himalaya and do not be more exited, take advice from guide to take any decision.
Do not through foods after order: Foods are all carried by helicopter or flight from Kathmandu. It takes a week time to reach all the foods in base camp site. It is not with any other transportation but carried by peoples or donkey. It is important that you order only sufficient food which you can finish. Do not waste any foods in the region. Meet items are not fresh in Everest Region. The land is out of scarifies any animals, and meets are all carried from out of region. This is the reason meets are not fresh.