Shigatse - Qilin Gorge - Everest East Slope - Rongbuk Monastery - Everest Base Camp
After breakfast, you will depart from Shigatse and head to Everest Base Camp. Along the way, you will pass through the beautiful Kongma Grassland, then arrive in Gangba County, the land of divine water, where you can gaze at one of China's most beautiful snow mountains, [Mother of Snow Mountains - Chomoyongqing]. Legend says it is the mother of the surrounding snow mountains, hence the name Mother of Snow Mountains. Afterward, you will continue along Route 219, also known as the China-India-Nepal Border Highway, for another 45 kilometers, then arrive at the magical Qilin Gorge. [Qilin Gorge] is a famous canyon geological landscape in a long, secluded canyon, recessed hundreds of meters below the surface. Earth forests rise like bamboo shoots, huge rocks hold up the sky, and they stretch out in vast, interwoven, scattered formations or in groups of three or five in orderly rows, like stern, independent guards. At Qilin Gorge, you can personally feel the uncanny workmanship of nature and marvel at its geological wonders of "majesty, wonder, danger, and uniqueness."
After lunch, you will continue along the China-India-Nepal Border Route 219 for about 30 kilometers. Along the way, you can admire one of China's most beautiful snow mountains, [Rimana Snow Mountain], locally called Renqing Snow Mountain, and also admire China's largest wetland, [Dingjie Wetland]. Then you will follow the wetland to Dingjie County, the kingdom of wetlands. After a short rest here, you can look into the distance along the Yeru Zangbu River Valley at [Lhotse, the world's fourth-highest peak]. Afterward, you will follow the beautiful border village road to the sacred mountain [Longren Mountain]. At Longren Mountain, you can view the world's fifth-highest peak, Makalu, and the eastern slope of Everest up close. Here it is like a "grand platter of beautiful scenery," with the golden sunrise or sunset on three 8,000-meter-class snow peaks — Everest (8,844 meters), Lhotse (8,516 meters, world's fourth), and Makalu (8,463 meters, world's fifth) — as well as Chomolonzo (7,804 meters), unfolding one by one before your eyes.
Then you will head to Rongbuk Monastery, the highest temple in the world. [Rongbuk Monastery] is universally recognized as the best place to look up at Everest. Afterward, you will arrive at [Everest Base Camp], take a photo with the altitude stone marker at Everest Base Camp, and here you will dance with the world's highest peak, Mount Everest. If you are lucky, you may also see Everest's banner cloud drifting like the fire of life.
Tip: In winter, Rongbuk Monastery tents are not open, so accommodation will be changed to a multi-person room at a Basong Village guesthouse.
🍽️ Breakfast included, lunch included, dinner included
🏨 Camp Tent