Shigatse-Qilin Gorge-Rongbuk Monastery-Mount Everest Base Camp
After breakfast, you will set off from Shigatse to Everest Base Camp. Along the way you will pass the beautiful Kongma Grassland, then arrive at Gangba County, the land of sacred water, where you can gaze at China's most beautiful snow mountain, [Qomoyongqing, Mother of Snow Mountains]. Legend has it that it is the mother of China's most beautiful snow mountain [Zhuori Lamu], the world's third-highest peak [Kangchenjunga], and the surrounding snow mountains, hence it is called the Mother of Snow Mountains. Afterwards you will continue along Route 219, also known as the China-India-Nepal border highway, for 45 kilometers, then arrive at the magical [Qilin Gorge]. Qilin Gorge is a famous canyon geological landscape set in a long, deep canyon, sunken hundreds of meters below the surface, where earth forests rise like bamboo shoots and giant rocks tower into the sky; they stretch out in vast, interlocking formations or in groups of three or five, 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, peril and strangeness."
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, [Rima Na Snow Mountain], known locally as Renqing Snow Mountain, and also enjoy China's largest wetland, [Dingjie Wetland]. Afterwards you will follow the wetland to Dingjie County, the kingdom of wetlands. After a short rest here, you can gaze from afar along the Yeru Zangbu River valley at [Lhotse, the world's fourth-highest peak]. Then you will cross a desolate, uninhabited desert to reach the world's highest-altitude monastery—[Rongbuk Monastery]. Rongbuk Monastery is universally recognized as the best place to look up at Mount Everest. Afterwards you will arrive at [Everest Camp], take a photo with the altitude stone marker at Everest Base Camp, and here you will dance with Mount Everest, the world's highest peak; if you are lucky, you may also see Everest's banner cloud drifting like a flame of life.
🍽️ Breakfast included, lunch included, dinner included
🏨 Everest Base Camp Tent / Basong Village Guesthouse Standard Room