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Snow peaks, prayer flags, the long walk up.

Everest Base Camp and the Annapurna circuit, sunrise over the peaks, the temple cities of the Kathmandu Valley and the jungle of the Terai. The whole range, trailhead to base camp, across Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet and the Indian Himalaya.

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Only here

Three things you can only do in the Himalaya.

Mountain views and temple tours turn up all over Asia. Walking to the foot of Everest, landing for breakfast at 3,880 metres and crossing a valley of seven living World Heritage cities do not.

The highest trail on Earth

Trek to the foot of Everest

Two weeks up the Khumbu, past Namche Bazaar and the monastery at Tengboche, to a camp on the glacier at 5,364 metres under the biggest mountain on Earth. There is no other walk like the approach to Everest, and no other dawn like the one from Kala Patthar above it.

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By helicopter

Breakfast under Everest

Lift off from Kathmandu at first light, fly up the valley as the peaks turn gold, and land for breakfast on the terrace of the Everest View Hotel at 3,880 metres with the summit filling the sky. Back in the city before lunch. The whole Khumbu in a single morning.

  1. 1 Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour landing at Everest View Hotel ★ 5.0 668 reviews
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The Kathmandu Valley

Seven temple cities in one valley

Before the trek, the valley: the great stupas of Boudhanath and Swayambhu, the medieval palace squares of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur, and the cremation ghats of Pashupatinath. Seven UNESCO World Heritage sites within an hour of each other, still lived in.

  1. 1 Private Kathmandu Sightseeing Tour | UNESCO World Heritage sites ★ 5.0 756 reviews
  2. 2 Kathmandu: Full Day 7 UNESCO Tour with Lunch – Private/Group ★ 5.0 415 reviews
  3. 3 Private Bhaktapur and Nagarkot Day Tour From Kathmandu ★ 5.0 305 reviews
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Start here

The trek almost everyone comes for.

More Himalaya trips are planned around this one route than any other on the list.

Pokhara

Where the Annapurnas meet the lake.

Most Annapurna treks begin and end in Pokhara, and it is no hardship to linger. Phewa Lake mirrors the white wall of peaks, paragliders ride the thermals off Sarangkot, and the dawn drive up to the viewpoint catches first light on Machapuchare and the Annapurnas across the valley.

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★ 5.0 Kathmandu Spiritual Sites: Bodhnath & Pashupatinath Tour ★ 4.8 Kathmandu: Chandragiri Cable Car and Monkey Temple Tour ★ 4.8 From Kathmandu: 2 Stupas and Kopan Monastery Spiritual Tour

Before the trek

The valley is a pilgrimage in itself.

Give Kathmandu a couple of days before you fly to the mountains. Walk the great dome of Boudhanath as pilgrims spin the prayer wheels, climb the monkey-temple steps to Swayambhu, and stand among the woodcarved temples of Bhaktapur and Patan, valley capitals from before the kings of Nepal united the country.

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The great range

Eight of the fourteen highest mountains on Earth.

Every peak over 8,000 metres stands in just two ranges, and most of them are here: Everest, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu and Annapurna, strung along the spine of the Himalaya. You do not have to climb them. An hour-long mountain flight out of Kathmandu runs the whole wall at eye level.

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Down in the Terai

There is a jungle at the bottom of the mountains.

Drop off the foothills onto the steaming plains of the Terai and Nepal turns into something else entirely. Chitwan National Park is wet sal forest and elephant grass where one-horned rhino wallow at dawn, wild elephant move in herds and the odd Bengal tiger leaves prints on the riverbank. A dugout canoe and a jeep at first light are the way in.

  1. 1 3-Day Chitwan National Park Jungle Safari Tour Package with Pick Up ★ 5.0 184 reviews
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Over the border

Cross the range to the roof of the world.

The Himalaya does not stop at Nepal. Over the high passes lies the Tibetan plateau: the Potala Palace and the Jokhang temple in Lhasa, the pilgrim road past Shigatse, and the overland run to the north side of Everest at Rongbuk, the highest monastery on Earth. The far side of the same mountains, and a different world.

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By region

Pick your corner of the range.

The Kathmandu Valley for the temples. Pokhara for the lake and the trailhead. The Everest region for the big walk. Annapurna for the circuit. Chitwan for the jungle. Bhutan for the kingdom over the border.

By activity

Or pick how you want to travel.

Trek if you have the days and the legs. A helicopter or a mountain flight if you want Everest without the walk. A canoe for the jungle, a paraglider off Sarangkot, a raft on a glacier-fed river, or a kitchen for a plate of momos.

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