The mountains charm and trekking adventure in the Everest region of Nepal will be an awesome start of the trip with walking in the mountains. Once you finish the trek in Nepal, you will fly to Bhutan to experience the cultural wonders and spirituality. As a combined trip of trekking and cultural adventure, this trip is ideal for both the adventure seekers and cultural explorers.
Why We Trek Nepal for Short Everest Trek and Bhutan Tour?
Since you are already in our Short Everest Trek and Bhutan Tour page, we want you to know why you should do this trip with us.
We have good reasons for you to choose us from the crowd in the market. Highly committed and experienced team of We Trek Nepal stands out in the market for unparalleled service we provide to our clients. We know no compromise while it comes to your safety and satisfaction.
Our style of small group trek operation in the mountains makes it quite easier for us to pay a individual attention to the group members. While the destination in itself is impressive, it is the unrivalled experience of our professional service and attention that makes Short Everest Trek and Bhutan Tour a special one with us.
What do you see on the trip?
Day one of the trip is your arrival day in Kathmandu, Nepal. When you arrive at Kathmandu airport, We Trek Nepal representative will welcome you and transfer to hotel. It will take more or less 20 minutes to reach hotel depending upon traffic. We will let you know about our trip briefing schedule and other essentials on your arrival at the hotel. You stay relaxed and try to adjust with the new atmosphere as a traveller. We will talk about any questions you may have at our trip briefing meeting.
We are at the elevation of 1,400 meters from sea level and are going well above 3,500 meters on the trip. We will take this day as our acclimatization and preparation day before we head up towards the mountains. Instead of staying idle in hotel, we will take you for a wonderful day tour of Kathmandu valley. Exploring UNESCO’s cultural heritage sites in Kathmandu is the best way to know about historical, cultural and spiritual aspects of this 2 millennia old city. We will visit Swoyambhunath popularly known as the Monkey Temple that is oldest monument in Kathmandu valley, Kathmandu Durbar Square that is one of the medieval palace squares in Kathmandu valley, Boudhanath that is the largest Buddhist stupa and Pashupatinath that is a Hindu temple premises with open Hindu cremation platforms on the bank of River Bagmati. Once we are back to hotel in the afternoon, we will go for last minute gearing up for our trekking adventure.
It is going to be our first day in the mountains today. We drive to airport early in the morning for our flight to Tenzing Hilary airstrip in Lukla. This short and spectacularly adventurous flight takes us to breathe the rejuvenating air of the Everest region. Once we land at Lukla airport, we prepare to embark on the Short Everest Trek journey. Although it’s a big adventure in the mountains, we will go at ease and pace as we advance towards our next destination. Our walk to Phakding is of about 4 hours that takes us through beautiful surroundings of mountains, nature and cultural riches.
This is the day we enter the Sagarmatha National Park. We continue the trekking through Dudh Koshi valley and cross and re-cross the river over suspension bridges. The trek goes past beautiful settlements of Monjo and Jorsalle and heads up towards the destination. We will come across donkeys and yaks fetching goods up to the higher elevation. The final section of the walk today is a steady uphill to the peacefully perched Namche Bazar on the mountain slope. Namche Bazar is one of the beautiful hometowns to Sherpa people and is often considered as the Sherpa capital. This small and beautiful town is the most happening place of all in the Everest region with ATM, internet, pub, market, trekking gear shops, souvenir shops etc.
Acclimatization is highly recommended and important part of trekking in the high elevation. Namche Bazar is our first acclimatization point in the mountains. Its strategic location at the elevation of 3,440 meters above sea level is the good place to stay an extra day and adjust with the elevation before going higher. As part of our acclimatization, we take a hiking adventure to Khumjung village to explore the surroundings. Khumjung is another beautiful Sherpa village where we can explore local lifestyle amazements and monastic spirituality in addition to captivating views of the mountains. After enjoying a wonderful hike and exploration of Khumjung village, we return back to Namche Bazar for overnight stay.
We are ready now to meander through the trail to Tengboche today. It is one of the most scenic and spectacular walks of the trek. With a start on gentle and gradual ascent for a while, we start descending through rhododendron forest down to Dudh Koshi River bank only to find ourselves ascending steeply towards our destination for the day. The ascent goes through pine and rhododendron forested area to emerge into a ridgeline. Once we come to the top on the ridgeline, we follow grassy pasture to reach Tengboche for overnight stay. Tengboche village has a famous and beautiful Buddhist monastery where a huge faith and devotion of local Buddhist people can be seen. We will explore the monastery as we enjoy arresting views of the mountains that this beautiful place has to offer us.
This day on the return journey is to Monjo via Namche Bazar to stay overnight. Even when we are walking back towards lower elevation, the surroundings look equally magical and thoroughly appealing. We still have so much to see and enjoy that that long day walk doesn’t even feel a bit. We reach Monjo to exit the Sagarmatha national park and settle into a tea house there.
We continue of the final day of trekking and head towards Lukla. Meandering mostly on the downhill trail, we follow the Dudh Koshi valley again to reach Lukla. Once we reach Lukla and check into the guest house, we will have time to wander around and take a relaxing moment. A big walking adventure in the mountains has come to end today. Big thanks to the awesome team of porters and guide who tirelessly worked so hard to make sure that things are well taken care of.
We say goodbye to mountains today as we fly back to Kathmandu. A wonderfully peaceful adventure has come to end yet it has left a life lasting impression upon us. With the memory and love for mountains and people there, we fly back to Kathmandu where we will have time to find a soothing relaxing after trek massage or just chill around.
We will have an extra day in Kathmandu today to prepare for our Bhutan part of the tour.
We will fly to Paro in Bhutan today. On our arrival at Paro airport, our Bhutan representative will warmly receive and welcome us at the airport and later drive us to our hotel. A sightseeing tour of Paro is due for this afternoon. This cultural insightful tour of Paro this afternoon is the first hand experience of Bhutanese life, culture and people. We will visit Bhutanese farms, ancient temples and monasteries and also take strolls around the streets in Paro. We can experience the spiritual richness, simplicity in life style and magnificence in cultures during the day tour of Paro today.
After a wonderful sightseeing tour at Paro yesterday, we are driving to the capital city of Bhutan. Thimpu, the bustling capital city, lies some 50 kilometers northeast of Paro. We drive along the highway past the confluence of two famous rivers – Pachu and Wangchu - and visit a temple called Tachog Lakhang on the way and finally reach Thimpu after about one and half hours of easy drive. Once we reach Thimpu and check into hotel, we go for a sightseeing tour of the famous places there. We visit Postal Museum, folk heritage museum, painting school, textile museum etc. We will also explore a 17th century monastery called Tango monastery and get some insight about monastic life.
We set off on a drive to Punakha on Thimpu Punakha highway. About 3 hours of drive takes us to further about 85 kilometers northeast to Punakha. The highway goes over Dochula pass that stands at 3,140 meters above sea level with stunning views of the mountain panorama. We also stop along the way to visit Druk Wangyal Lhakhang and enjoy the beauty of mural paintings there that record the important events in the history. Later in the afternoon, the Punakha tour brings us across Chhimi Lhakhang, Punakha Dzong, Khamsum Yuelley Namgyal Lhakhang and many other interesting places in and around Punakha. After an incredible exploration of Punakha, we go to hotel and relax.
We are returning back to the capital city via the same highway. We have a full day to explore more of Thimpu today. We visit Takin preserve to witness Takin, a rare animal that is endemic to Bhutan. Later, we also explore Tashichoe Dzong, Buddha point, National memorial chhorten, and craft bazar for a diverse experience of Bhutanese life, culture and spirituality. A wonderful day is well spent to collect some incredible memories to cherish.
It’s a day full of adventure today. We drive back to Paro and get ready for an adventure hike to the famous Tiger’s Nest. The Tiger’s Nest, also known as Paro Taktsang Monastery, lies at 3,048 meters above sea level and gives good challenge of more or less 2.5 hours of walk up the hill to reach there. Paro Taktsang Monastery that hangs on a cliff on the top gives a wonderful view of the Paro valley straight down. We soak in each of the wonderful moments up in the Tiger’s Nest and start on the descent back to the base and drive to Paro.
As the last day on this trip in Bhutan, we drive to airport and fly back to Kathmandu. We spend the day in Kathmandu after checking in to the hotel.
We have come the final day of the big Short Everest Trek and Bhutan Tour and we hope that you enjoyed the adventure. Now, it’s the time to say a departing goodbye for this time with the hope to see you soon for next adventure. We will drive you to airport 3 hours before your flight schedule.
Here, we have published our small group guaranteed departures dates for this trek. If the published date does not fit your travel date, write to us with your date, and we will be very pleased to organize this trek at your desired date and time requested.
If you do not want to join our small group departure, we will be very happy to organize a private departure date to this trek to you and your group. Please write to us with your proposed travel date to this trek with us.
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