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Top Hotels in Everest, Nepal
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Hotel Yak & Yeti Kathmandu
221 reviews -
Malla Hotel Kathmandu
71 reviews
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The Everest Hotel Kathmandu
86 reviews
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Hotel de l'Annapurna Kathmandu
105 reviews
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Kathmandu Guest House
255 reviews -
Radisson Hotel Kathmandu
142 reviews -
Mirabelle Hotel Dhulikhel
2 reviews
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Yeti Hotel Lumbini
1 review
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Hyatt Regency Kathmandu
356 reviews
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Hotel Vaishali Kathmandu
88 reviews
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Shangri-La Hotel Kathmandu
82 reviews
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Shanker Hotel Kathmandu
194 reviews
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Hotel Himalaya Patan (Lalitpur)
16 reviews
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Grand Hotel Kathmandu
36 reviews
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Royal Singi Hotel Kathmandu
42 reviews
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The Bluebird Hotel Pokhara
1 review
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Hotel Manang Kathmandu
82 reviews
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Hotel Marshyangdi Kathmandu
51 reviews
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Bluestar Hotel Kathmandu
1 review -
Dwarika's Hotel Kathmandu
268 reviews -
Kantipur Hotel Pokhara
25 reviews
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Hotel Gangjong Kathmandu
13 reviews
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Summit Hotel Patan (Lalitpur)
50 reviews
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Norling Guest House Kathmandu
39 reviews
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Hotel Down Town Kathmandu
1 review
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Via Via Cafe Kathmandu
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Club Himalaya Resort Nagarkot
93 reviews
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Hotel Thamel Kathmandu
45 reviews
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Hotel Vajra Kathmandu
55 reviews
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Shangri-La Village Pokhara
62 reviews
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Kantipur Temple House Kathmandu
230 reviews
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Hotel Utse Kathmandu
40 reviews
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Buddha Maya Garden Hotel Lumbini
19 reviews
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Hotel Nirvana Lumbini
11 reviews
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Le Meridien Kathmandu
1 review
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Hotel Barahi Pokhara
92 reviews
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Marcopolo Kathmandu
4 reviews
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Hotel Country Villa Nagarkot
30 reviews
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Garden Hotel Kathmandu
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Hotel Ambassador Kathmandu
22 reviews
Everest, Nepal
Travel Blogs from Everest, Nepal, Nepal
Trek 2: Look at me ma! I climbed a hill!
This is a top pick! ... was amazing, absolutely the best bakery we've seen yet outside of home, and it has spawned a million attempts to imitate it throughout Nepal, all unsuccessful. I don't know how or why it exists, but I will be forever grateful. We also took a stroll to a ...
So, it's off to base camp we go!
This is a top pick! ... days) 16 November - Dingboche to Lobuje 17 November - Lobuje to Kala Pattar (5545m) to Gorak Shep 18 November - Gorak Shep to Everest Base Camp (5364m) to Lobuje 19 November - Lobuje to Phortse 20 November - Phortse to Namche 21 November - Namche to Lukla ...
Mt Everest Flight
This is a top pick! 26.9.06 Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal Everest flight Des, Lynn and Lou got up at 5am for their flight over Mt. Everest with Buddha Air. They were very excited about it and hoped the mist would clear enough for them to get a good view. They were guaranteed ...
Did Li Bai come to Lijiang?
This is a top pick! I recently saw this quote from Chinese poet Li Bai next to some photos of canals in Lijiang. I wonder if he ever made it to Lijiang? You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the ...
The Trek
This is a top pick! ... Phakding, our stop for the night. As soon as i started walking i remembered why i had wanted to come back to Nepal. The scenery is absolutely incredible and the people are very friendly. The actual walk today was very gentle to ease us ...
Himalayas is lossing its snow and ice
This is a top pick! This might explain why the mountains around here don't have so much snow or ice . . . CLIMATE CHANGE: Snow Cover Turning to Lakes in the Himalayas By Stephen Leahy Urban smog in Beijing, China, 2003. Credit:Scripps Institution of ...
Trekking in the Himalayas
This is a top pick! ... the way); and most memorably made it to the top of Gokyo Ri for a breathtaking view of Mount Everest and the other giants of the Nepal Himalayas. After several days in Kathmandu shopping around for a trekking company, we finally settled on Nature ...
Everest Base Camp ain't walk in the park
This is a top pick! Everest Base Camp. Check! That being said, this wasn't the easiest thing I've done in my life. I came back 5kg lighter and fitter than I've been in my entire life. Perhaps stubbornly refusing to hire a porter and caring my 12 kg backpack all the way had ...
Rachel and Graham in Engagement Shock!!!!!
This is a top pick! ... !! Perhaps more surprisingly Rachel said yes. I think we can put it down to altitude sickness... it all happened about 100m above Everest Base Camp (5300m - 17,500feet), after a five day trek in from Tingri... More Later Graham and ...
Himalayan Trek - Day 41-51 (EBC & Kala Patthar)
This is a top pick! ... to summit Everest without oxygen 20 years ago. A true legend in female mountaineering, some achievement. She's back in Nepal to lead an expedition on Everest over the next couple of months. Defiantly the longest day today, started at 7.30am and ...
To Everest Base camp to Nepalise Border.
This is a top pick! ... rotating their prayer wheels. We left the family at a monastery and found our way to the base camp or basic camp!!! Everest looked magnificent in the bright sunshine even though base camp is a bit of a drab barren disappointment itself. We stayed at ...
YAKS, PEAKS AND PASSES
This is a top pick! ... too easy to go too high too quick on the Gokyo trek and more trekkers get altitude sickness here than anywhere else in Nepal. Machermo to Gokyo (4,750m) - 3.5 hours past fantastic lakes and waterfalls. Next day up at 6.00 to climb Gokyo Ri (5,357m) - ...
Peeking at the Peaks - A Flight Over Everest
This is a top pick! ... is that I will be in countries at times when it is simply not the best season to showcase it's attractions. Such is the time in Nepal. It has been lovely and reasonably cool, but this late in the dry season, there is a haze that hangs in the air of ...
Everest Base Camp Trek
... us beers and food in her tea house for porters. Simply a large room with a few old wooden tables. Relations in Nepal, especially in the mountains, are still very hierarchical; porters with porters, guide with guide. Porters very courteous to Guides and ...
Highest point on Earth, Wind and Yak Dung Fire...
... writing from what the purveyor of this Internet cafe, which consists of a laptop in a room colder than outside, (gotta love Nepal) says is the highest Internet connection in the country in Dingboche, approximately 14,000 feet. I just had my first ...
Day 11 – Dingboche to Laboche – Almost
... free from the cycle of poverty. You can read more details about the same here www.justgiving.com/Tarun-Arora-Trekking-Everest-Fundraising. I urge you to contribute to this initiative if you feel inspired or if this travelogue proves of any help to ...
Here a yak, there a yak, everywhere a yak yak
... of the off road driving! Tingri was another town with nothing going on. We tried to stock up on food for the final day to Nepal but finding only tinned yak or wheat we had to put up with another day of crackers and jam, the stable diet of the ...
Day 13 - Gorakshep to Everest Base Camp
Day 13 - Gorakshep to Everest Base Camp and Everest Base Camp to Dingboche Trekking profile Gorakshep 5160 m Everest Base Camp 5436 m Gorakshep 5160 m Lobuche 4930 m Tukla Dugla 4620 m Dingboche 4240 m - You have to convince yourself to visit EBC ...
Tibetan Everest Base Camp - We made it
Drive from Shegar to Rombuk (4920M) and onwards to Everest Base Camp (5200M) After a really cold night and no warm water to shower in the morning we had an early start to drive to Rombuk. We all had our thermals and hiking gear on - I'd ...
Day 12 – To Gorakshep and Kalapathar Sunset!
... free from the cycle of poverty. You can read more details about the same here www.justgiving.com/Tarun-Arora-Trekking-Everest-Fundraising. I urge you to contribute to this initiative if you feel inspired or if this travelogue proves of any help to ...
Island Peak and Unforzen Caveman Lawyer
... windy and clouds over late afternoon and repeat. Island Peak is listed as a "trekking peak" by Nepal standards, which is misleading, but expedition peaks like Everest and Aba Dablam require much more expensive permits, so the fact that ...
Trekking in the Himalayas
... tempted us with a mere glimpse of a snow peak. We found out quickly that there are many more beautiful mountains than Everest. The path was well traveled and easy to follow. We hiked and average of 4 hours a day. At Namche Bazaar we bought ...
On top of the world (almost)!
... evidently a brothel with a big grin on his face! The following day we left Tibet, crossing the ‘Friendship bridge’ across the river into Nepal. We boarded another bus to the town of Dhulikhel where we had a day before heading off to ...
Extreme Everest (part 1)
EXTREME! It's the perfect word to describe all the major elements of our trek to Everest Base Camp. Extreme weather, extreme altitude, extreme hills, extreme exhaustion, extreme mountain landscapes.... even extreme beard in my case. Trekking to ...
The Road to Everest
... , we joined a 9 day tour which included some days in Lhasa and then a drive along Friendship Highway to the border of Nepal. The scenery all along this road was absolutely fantastic: vast mountain ranges, snowcapped in the far distance, rough roads ...
Everest Base Camp... Almost.
... , worrying about the cold and hearing that we are insane, we decided we are going. Mario knowing he was coming back to Nepal seemed to be enjoying Kathmandu and decided he wouldn't join us, which was a shame, but understandable. The flight to Lukla ...
After a long awaited break... back from EVEREST!!!
... the bus to take us to the domestic airport. I could probably write a whole entire blog entry about domestic airline travel here in Nepal but I'll leave that to your imagination (with the aide of a few pictures and anecdotes). I will say this though, ...
Made it to Kala Patthar and Everest Base Camp :-)
... toes. I stayed in the dining tent with the camp manager and the liaison officer (he's the liaision between the camp and the Nepal government) who happened to speak French although we chatted the whole evening in English until the lights went off at 10. I ...
Everest Base Camp Trek
... later.We did an acclimatization hike today to help us prepare for the coming days, about 400m up and down including our first sighting of Everest itself. I have to say this was an anti-climax as it is so far away, and with so many massive peaks around it, ...