Everest Heli Tour: Let you touch Everest without a trek!

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$ 300

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$1200

Overview

Difficulty

Easy

Age requirement

Starting point

Kathmandu Airport

Country

Nepal

Style

Active, Adult, Luxury

Activity

Adventure

Best season

All seasons

Maximum Altitude

5550m

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Getting to Mount Everest is on the bucket list of every single traveler. Everest Base Camp Heli tour is ideal for those who don’t have enough period of time to trek hours and hours for a number of days. Similarly, some physically disable people, who have dreams to explore the tallest peak of the world can do this tour within a few hours of time.

To help these travellers to fulfill their dreams, Eyes on Nepal operates the Everest Helicopter Tour!.

This tour allows everyone, who wish to view Mt. Everest, world’s highest mountain without trek. The journey begins from Kathmandu Domestic Airport towards the Everest Region. The flight experience gets further refreshing as we reach Lukla Airport. Swirling around for a bit, the flight lands at the airstrip of Lukla Airport for refueling. And fly around the towns of Namche, Tyangboche, Gokyo, and finally land at Kalapathar at an elevation of 5550m.

From Kalapathar, one can see Mt. Everest up, close and personal. You will fly back to Syangboche for a breakfast at Everest View Hotel, the highest mountain in the world before heading back to Kathmandu.

Mount Everest Helicopter Tour costs about USD 1200 per pax.

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Everest Helicopter Tour Itinerary

Day 1: Your hotel - Kathmandu Airport - Lukla - Periche - Kalapathar - Everest View Hotel - Kathmandu!

Itinerary

Day 1: Your hotel - Kathmandu Airport - Lukla - Periche - Kalapathar - Everest View Hotel - Kathmandu!

Duration

6 hours

Transportation

Plane

Meal

Not Available

Accommodation

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Highlights: Mount Everest Helicopter Tour costs only USD1200 per pax with 3 landing spots – at Lukla, Kalapathar or Periche, and the Everest View Hotel for breakfast with Everest!

05.30am: Pick up from your hotel and transfer to the airport.

06.30am: Arrive at Kathmandu airport, check in at the helicopter counter.

06.30am: Fly to Lukla. You will see Ganesh Himal, Langtang, Shisha Pangma, Dorje Lakpa, Gauri Shankar, and more in the distant horizon.

07.30am: Arrive at Lukla airport for offloading the fuel.

08.10am: Continue the flight to Kalapathar. On the way, you will see Namche village, Tengboche, Syangboche, Periche, and finally stop at Kalapatthar.

Note: If there are more than 3 pax on board the helicopter, we will need to make one more stop at Periche. You will feel colder here because of the late sunrise, due to the tall peaks and mountains blocking the sun.

We will be spending about 10 minutes here owing to the high altitude, and the need to keep the engine running (*Depends upon temperature). Also, it will be difficult to acclimatise in high altitude for longer periods of time. Famous mountains such as Thamserku, Ama Dablam, Pumori, Lhotse, Everest, and many more can be easily seen along this route.

08.30am: Continue the flight to Everest View Hotel near Namche. On the way you will see the Everest Base Camp, Lobuche, and other Sherpa villages.

08.45am: Land on the hill of Everest View hotel. Here you will have 1 hour to have breakfast as well as take in the majestic views of the Himalayas.

Note: Opened in 1971 and inscribed in the Guinness World Book of Records, Everest View Hotel is the highest altitude hotel in the world offering luxury facilities such as oxygen cylinders. The hotel is a vantage point to get a 180 degrees view of the Everest range of Himalayas.

09.45am: Take off from Everest View Hotel to Lukla where we will stop for refuelling before continuing our journey towards Kathmandu. On the way you will see Pikey Peak, Phaplu airport, Jiri Bazar, Charikot Bazar, Dolalghat, Banepa, Dhulikhel, and Bhaktapur.

10.45am: Arrive in Kathmandu airport.

11.30am: Arrive at your hotel. Tour ends.

Price & Terms

From at USD1200 per pax/USD 6000.00 per helicopter. Minimum 5 pax per helicopter. For inquiries and bookings, please write to sales@eyesonnepal.com. NOTE: If weight of each passenger is less than 70kg each, then we can take up to 6 pax per helicopter. This means that the price per pax will be USD1000. TOTAL Maximum weight of all passenger should not more than 420kg.

What is included?

All land transportation and helicopter tickets.
Helicopter charter charge from Kathmandu to Everest and back to Kathmandu.
Pick up from your hotel and transfer to Kathmandu Airport.
Pick up from Kathmandu Airport and transfer to your hotel.
Breakfast at Everest View Hotel.
Everest National Park Permit Fee.
23% VAT (Government tax and service charge)

What is not included?

Personal expenses
Tipping
Travel insurance

Important Notes

Time schedules in the itinerary are for reference. Changes of time and schedule will be advised by your tour guide depending on the situation, weather conditions, and road conditions during the tour.
Customers have to write in email for confirmation.
Payment phases:
- 50% upon Confirmation,
- 50% upon Pick up from your hotel.
Please note that the itineraries are subject to change. The schedule will always depend on the time available and weather conditions. Some of them can be cancelled without prior notice. There will be no refund upon cancellation if the guest does not keep to the agreed upon time, or if there are bad weather conditions.
Any request for changes will be charged accordingly.

How to book?

Please fill the form below.

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We kindly request you to fill in the online booking form or just provide us answers to the following questions directly through our email address sales@eyesonnepal.com

Subject: Everest Helicopter Tour
Name:
Preferred date of the tour:
No. of pax:
Flight details | Arrival & Departure time (for pick up and drop arrangements):

We will reply you with an official quotation with itinerary.

If you are okay with our itinerary and quotation, confirm with us in email.
Please provide us a copy of your passport (take a photo) and a passport sized photo in JPEG format upon sending us the confirmation email.
We will issue the Confirmation Order and Invoice to you.
50% deposit will be paid by your side either via Pay Pal or bank in to our Nepal Company account.
We will issue the official receipt to you once we received the payment.
Welcome to Nepal. We will greet you upon pick up in your hotel.