Everest Gokyo Lake Renjo La Pass Trek

Our team will pick you up from the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu upon arrival. After a warm welcome, you can travel with our team to the hotel in Thamel in a private vehicle. He will assist you in checking in the hotel.

Our manager will meet you in the evening to discuss the program in detail and address your needs. Your trekking guide will assist you in buying or renting anything you need before the trek.

Your trekking guide will meet you early in the morning at the hotel lobby to drive you to Kathmandu airport. Check in the tickets and luggage, and wait for the short and scenic flight to Lukla. You enjoy aerial views of the hills and mountains during the flight before landing at Lukla airport. After landing at Lukla, you meet your porters and go to the tea house for refreshment.

You can capture the plane landing and taking off at Lukla while having coffee at the tea house. Lukla is the starting point of the trek. After a refreshment break, you trek to Phakding village and pass the beautiful villages of Chaurikharka, Chheplung, Thade Koshi, and Ghat. The trail is primarily downhill and flat, although there are a couple of short climbs. The route offers a glimpse of the mountains along the way.

Today, the trek begins after a hot breakfast at the tea house in Phakding. The trail goes north along the bank and upstream of the Dudh Koshi River. You cross the Dudh Koshi River multiple times with suspension bridges. You pass small towns, such as TokTok and Banker, before reaching Manjo village, where the Sagarmatha National Park office is. We buy permits in the office to enter the world's highest national park.

We stopped for a lunch break in Jorsella, next to Manjo. Jorsalle is the last place before Namche Bazaar. So we get water and snacks in this town for 3 hours.  After 30 30-minute walk from Jorsalle, we reach the bottom of Namche hill. The trail starts uphill from here to Namche Bazaar. It is pretty tough, but the dense forest and surrounding scenery encourage you to climb slowly to reach Namche Bazaar. If you are lucky with the weather, you can see a glimpse of Mount Everest on ascending. 

Namche Bazaar is a big town in the Everest region. It has big hotels, restaurants, trekking shops, a money exchange, bars, bakeries, banks, barber shops, and supermarkets. 

Today is acclimatization day in Namche Bazaar, a day to adjust our bodies to elevation and thin air in the atmosphere. You can hike to Everest View Hotel, one of the highest hotels in the world.

After breakfast, you go to a viewpoint in Army Camp to see Mount Everest, Mount Lhotse, Mount Ama Dablam and its surrounding scenery. Then, you resume ascending to reach Everest View Hotel via the Syangboche airstrip. Everest View Hotel is the highest hotel in the world. Enjoy the view of Mount Everest and other peaks with tea/coffee in the Everest View Hotel before descending to Namche Bazaar for lunch. After lunch, you have a free afternoon to explore Namche Bazaar. 

Following the Bhote Koshi River, you walk through lush pine and rhododendron forests on a gentle, flat path to reach Thamo by passing a few stupas and mani walls. You can visit a nunnery in Thamo. The route descends steeply to Khumbu Hydroelectric Plant and leads to Thame village.

Thame is home to some of the famous Sherpa mountaineers. The 21-time Everest scaler, Apa Sherpa & the first man on Everest, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, are from here.

After breakfast, you leave Thame village for Lungden. Today's walk is blissful. Leaving Thame, you trek gradually to Marulung (4,200 m), where you can stop for tea/coffee. After a short tea break with views, it is an hour-long steep climb to Lungden.

You can visit an old trade route to Tibet called Nakpa Valley or hike to Relmo Lake in the afternoon to acclimatize if the weather permits. The trail offers beautiful scenery.

Today is a significant and challenging day. You start the trek in the dark with a torch light. You get a packed lunch and carry enough water to cross the Renjo La Pass before 10:00 AM. It is almost 1000 meters climb in 4-5 hours to the Renjo top and approximately 600 meters down to Gokyo Valley.

There will be powerful winds on the Renjo Pass Top after 10-11 Amr that can become an obstacle to cross the pass. The Renjo La Pass top offers an outstanding view of Mt. Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, Cho Oyu, and Makalu with Nagzompa Glacier and beautiful Gokyo lakes. The down trail to Gokyo Lake from Renjo Top is very steep. It is difficult because of the small rocks and sand. 

Today, you hike Gokyo Ri in the early morning for sunrise. Gokyo Ri is a famous viewpoint from which you can enjoy breathtaking 360-degree views of Mount Everest, Mount Lhotse, the biggest glacier in Nagzumpa, and Gokyo Valley with Gokyo Lake. It is a  2-hour steep climb on the rocky path at the end, but it is worth it to be on top of Gokyo Ri. We can not express in words how beautiful the views are. Gokyo Ri is the best point to see the four peaks over 8,000 meters those are Mt. Everest (8,848 m), Mt. Lhotse (8,516 m), Mt. Makalu (8,463 m) and Mt. Cho Oyu (8,201 m).

The views from Gokyo Ri are almost the same as those of Renjo Pass. So, if you would like to have a different experience, Fifth Lake is the best option. The hike to Fifth Lake offers a remarkable view of the Ngozumpa Glacier and Cho Oyu Base Camp and more of the face and body of Mt Everest. You also see the Fourth Lake on the way to Fifth Lake. 

Today, you trek down to  Phortse Thagna (Thagna means the resting place in the Sherpa language). You get to see three lakes and Mt Cho Oyu while going down. You pass a couple of tea house settlement villages, Machhermo and Dole. From Dole, the trails go down to Phortse Thagna through the Rhododendron forest. You may see a musk deer in the forest. 

Walking along a sandy slope, you ascend through a series of steep curves to Mong La. The climb from Phortse to Mong La top is a little tough. Mong La is the birthplace of Lama Saint Dorje, reincarnate monk of Rongbok Monastery Tibet. Lama Dorge is a founder of the famous Tengboche Monastery.

The trail descends to Namche Bazaar through Khumjung village (3,790 m). Khumjung village has one of the oldest monasteries and the Sir Edmund Hilary School. It is also known as Green Valley in the Everest Trek. 

You trek back to Lukla. After breakfast, you leave Namche Bazaar and steeply descend through dense forest to Jorsalle. Today, you follow the same route back to Lukla. You re-cross all the suspension bridges and pass villages to reach Phakding. The trail gradually ascends to Lukla.

You fly to Kathmandu in the morning, then drive to the Hotel. Free day. 

Our team drop you off at Kathmandu airport.