Explore a fantastic adventure: Himalayans and Everest Base Camp!
If travel is one of your biggest passions, and you’ve explored some of the famous classical destinations, it’s time to try something new, exciting, and adventurous. Take the trek up to Everest Base Camp and enjoy some of the most impressive mountain sceneries on Earth.
Mix the breathtaking landscapes with a personal sports challenge, lots of fun and unique ingredients that will make this adventure a must do for the travel lovers destination list. Let’s dive a bit deeper and give you the 8 reasons why this trek is the right adventure for you to embark in next!
Reason #1
It’s still a relatively unexplored destination
How many of your friends have been to Everest Base Camp? Even if there are hundreds of tourists going up the route every year, it’s still just a few compared with the thousands that go to Paris and Rome. Your journey will be quite unique and impressive, not only as a show off to your friends but for your travel portfolio.
Reason #2
It’s a combination between an active holiday and mental rest
Everest Base Camp is a mountain trek that will push you during some of its parts to reach your limits. But given you walk for 4-5 hours every day at a slow pace, it’s also a chance to spend some time with yourself. We do recommend some training so that you are at the right fitness level, but even old people and children can do it, so there is no reason you cannot make it!
Reason #3
Get to know two Asian cultures: Hinduism and Buddhism
Nepal is a country where people belonging to both these cultures live peacefully together and respect each other. In Kathmandu and the cities locates at the foot of the mountains Hinduism is more popular, with its colorful traditions, while as you climb up the Everest Base Camp trek, you will meet the quiet and mysterious Buddhist, which will impress you with their life spirit and positivism.
Reason #4
Indian cuisine
Kathmandu offers a large variety of restaurants and terraces to experiment with the local cuisine, most of it with Indian influences. You can even try the local street food, but it would be safe to do it once you’re back from the trek. You don’t want to jeopardize the expedition itself, but it’s also good to try out all the food variety as you never know when and if you’ll be back.
Reason #5
Flying to Luckla on a tiny plane or helicopter
The Everest Base Camp Trek starts in Lukla, a small mountain village you reach with a plane or a helicopter. There are few places in the world to experiment such a ride over these high mountains, milk rivers, and spectacular valleys. It’s one of the best parts of the expedition!
Reason #6
Reach your altitude record
There are few people to take on this adventure, so you’ll be one of the few to reach an altitude of over 5,500 m at the end of the trek. And it will most probably be the highest point you have achieved so far as a traveler and not a mountain climber. This attitude is even higher than Mont Blanc, but it’s not technical at all and anyone with the will to do it can do it.
Reason #7
Meet different kinds of people
The kind of people that will join you on the Everest Base Camp trek is incredibly passionate and love the mountains much. Some of them are even professional climbers, with stories that fascinate you. They’ve lost fingers and dared enormous challenges just to sit atop of some of the highest and provocative mountains in the world. Some of their stories are worth making moves off, similar to the famous “Everest” film you most probably have seen.
Reason #8
Widen your horizon and life paradigms
The Everest Base Camp trek is more than just a hike. With so much time disconnected and spent admiring the natural beauty of the highest mountains on the planet, you’ll experience a wide range of feelings, from amazement to insignificance and gratitude. You will put some of your problems into a different light and perspective, and your horizon will widen up to accommodate new ways of thinking. It’s as much a journey for the soul as it is for the love of travel.
If these reasons have made you at least curious to want to try such an adventure, reach out to usand sign-up for this year’s expedition! Meet us and ask us all your questionsahead of embarking in a once in a lifetime journey, guaranteed!
