Your second day in Kathmandu includes guided visits to famous temples of Swayambhunath, Pasupatinath or Boddhanath. You will see life going on as it has for hundreds of years against a background of sacred peaks, terraced hillsides and an exotic culture. In Kathmandu, and throughout your trip, we encourage you to interact with local people either through your guide as interpreter, or through participation in the activities that are all around you. While you explore, your staff gets all your food supplies and logistical requirements in order. Starting from Lukla you proceed up the deep valley of the Dudh Khosi.
Prayer flags fly above every house and large wooden or metal prayer wheels sanctify the trail.
You enter Sagarmatha National Park at Jorsale and climb out of the pleasant pine forest through a series of switchbacks. If the sky is clear, you will catch your first glimpse of Everest from a tea shop about halfway up the slope. It lies in a natural amphitheater protected from the weather and blessed with a major natural spring. Several of your staff are from this area and you will be welcomed in the large home of the Sherpa family of your guide. This is a convenient place to rest for a day, both to acclimatize to the 11,000' elevation and to investigate the town.