Responsible Tourism

Everest Base Camp Trek

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Highlights of this tour.

-Kathmandu City tour
-Scenic flight to and from Lukla
-Step inside and experience life as the "mountain people" live, in the heart of Himalaya.
-Visiting Tengboche Monastery.
-Remarkable views of Khumbu Ice fall.
-Climbing Kalapattar at elevation of 5555 meters.
-Everest Base Camp and walking on the Khumbu glacier.

Example of the itinerary.

Day 01- Arrive at Kathmandu airport (1345meters). Overnight at hotel.
Day 02- Pre-trip Meeting and Sightseeing around Kathmandu valley. Overnight at hotel.
Day 03- Fly to Tenzing and Hillary Airport in Lukla (2804 meters) from Kathmandu, trek to Phakding (2610 meters) 3 hours. Overnight at Guesthouse.
Day 04- Trek to Namche Bazaar (3441 meters) 5 hours. Overnight at Guesthouse.
Day 05- Namche Bazaar Acclimatization day. Overnight at Guesthouse.
Day 06- Trek to Tengboche Monastery (3860 meters) 5 hours. Overnight at Guesthouse.
Day 07- Trek to Dingboche (4350 meters) 6 hours. Overnight at Guesthouse.
Day 08- Day trip to Chhukung valley (4710 meters) and trek back to Dingboche. 4 hours. Overnight at Guesthouse.
Day 09- Trek to Lobuche (4910 meters) 5 hours. Overnight at Guesthouse
Day 10- Trek to Everest Base Camp (5365 meters) then back to Gorak Shep. 8 hours. Overnight at Guesthouse.
Day 11- Hike up to Kalapattar (5555 meters) early in the morning then trek down to Periche (4200 meters). 7 hours. Overnight at Guesthouse.
Day 12- Trek to Namche Bazaar (3441 meters) 6 hours. Overnight at Guesthouse.
Day 13- Trek to Lukla (3404 meters) 6 hours. Overnight at Guesthouse.
Day 14- Flight from Lukla to Kathmandu in the morning. Overnight at hotel.
Day 15- Leisure day in Kathmandu Overnight at hotel.
Day 16- Transfer to international airport for your final flight departure.

The benefits you bring in taking this tour.

We are committed to responsible travel and sustainable tourism. Our main focus is to ensure that our travel destinations, Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan continue their natural and cultural diversity for generations to come. Allowing every traveler to make a positive contribution to the people and places we visit.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
We have adopted eco green practices and taken on the role of educating our staff to ensure they follow our company guidelines while helping to deliver improved ways of traveling, by minimizing our impact on the environment. With each and every one of our treks or tours we are always conscious of the impact that we have on the environment and limit our group numbers to a maximum of 15 at any one time.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY
As you are traveling to gain an insight into the Himalayan existence, while observing the different cultures and heritage of the Himalayas, there are many aspects to Indigenous traditions we ask that you observe and respect the local way of life, after all this is what you have come to experience. We provide each of our clients with our Responsible Travel Booklet which covers all our guidelines and policies that they should follows. Our employees are given a guideline list to follow of the acceptable behaviors and practices as we have listed.

• In the developing world begging is one of the harsh realities of poverty in this country; most communities believe it should NOT be encouraged.
• If you want to make a difference and support the local community in some way, we are associated with the Sambhav Nepal Foundation, with many children benefiting from your kind donation. Please don't hand out pens, sweets, chocolate or anything else as this only encourages the children at every opportunity to ask the westerner and it's not something we want to promote.
• As we are dedicated to giving something back to the local community the Sambhav Nepal Foundation is a registered Nepalese charity the we are associated with. With the foundation our aim is to offer English Medium schooling and health services for a remote isolated region of Gorkha. For more information please go to the website www.sambhavnepal.org
• Nudity is completely unacceptable for local cultures. Swimming, costumes should be conservative and it is acceptable to wear a sarong or t-shirt over a swimsuit.
• As for a dress code, you should be conservative in your dress code as locals do get offended by the sight of tourists wearing tight fitting, skimpy clothes. Shorts, singlets are not advisable at any time and must not be worn to visit monasteries, dzongs and other religious institutions. These are offensive to locals, especially on women.
• You will have many photo opportunities please ask if it is ok to take someone's photo. Photography in, monasteries, shrine rooms of dzongs and religious institutions is generally not permitted but outdoor photography is permitted. To be sure when visiting such places, ask your guide. We do not believe in discriminating against any person because of their color, sex, religion, nationality, race, age or size.
• Public displays of affection even kissing and holding hands is considered confronting and should be saved for later. It is rare to see couples displaying affection for each other.

PORTER TREKKING POLICY

We understand and appreciate the hard work the guides and porters perform. Therefore we treat and obey the following Guide, Porter Policy to ensure the conditions for our guides and porters are of a humane standard. We work towards eliminating avoidable illness, injury and death. If you employ our guides or porters and follow our guidelines for ethical trekking and treat them as you would like to be treated yourself.
• All our Guides and Porters receive Medical care when ill or injured.
• We provide basic accommodation for our guides and porters or tent with sleeping gear, and they are provided food and warm drinks.
• We have insurance policies for each of our employees.
• We provide appropriate clothing for each season and altitude, ensuring protection from cold, rain and snow. This means windproof jackets, trousers, fleece jacket, long johns, suitable footwear, socks, hat, gloves and sunglasses.
• We never overload our porters for us it's not all about making money we strive on being able to employ local people; we respect and treat each and every one of our employees with the up most respect.

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