Shigatse - Qilin Gorge - East Slope of Mount Everest - 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, and 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 - Qomoyongqing]. Legend has it that 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, and then arrive at the magical Qilin Gorge. [Qilin Gorge] is a famous canyon geological landscape recessed hundreds of meters below the surface within a long, secluded canyon. The earth forest rises like bamboo shoots, with huge rocks holding up the sky. They stretch on in vast arrays, interwoven and scattered, or arranged in groups of three or five, like stern and 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 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], known locally as Renqing Snow Mountain, and also enjoy China's largest wetland, [Dingjie Wetland]. Afterward, 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 Zangbo River Valley at [Lhotse, the world's fourth-highest peak]. Then 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 and 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.
Afterward, you will visit Rongbuk Monastery, the highest temple in the world. [Rongbuk Monastery] is universally recognized as the best place to look up at Everest. Then you will arrive at [Everest Base Camp] and take a photo in front of the altitude stone marker at Everest Base Camp. Here you will dance with the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, and if you are lucky, you may also see the Everest banner cloud drifting like the fire of life.
Tip: In winter, the Rongbuk Monastery camp tents are not open, so accommodation will be changed to a multi-person room in a Basong village guesthouse.
🍽️ Breakfast included, lunch included, dinner included
🏨 Everest Base Camp