Mani Rimdu Festival Trek

One of our company representatives will wait for you in front of the arrival gate on your arrival and transfer to the Hotel at Thamel. It takes about 25 to 30 minutes to drive from the airport, but it depends on traffic jams in Kathmandu. If you are in office time, it may take a long time. Once you reach the Hotel, you will check in and have a rest.

If you want any last minutes shopping for your trip, you can have a free walk in the tourist hub Thamel Street. Sometimes in the evening, you will get a short briefing and introduction from your guide. The dinner will be at the Nepali restaurant with a Nepali cultural show hosted by Peregrine Treks and Expedition. Overnight in the Hotel

Today, after your mouth-watering breakfast, your guide picks you up to go to Tribuvan domestic airport. You will have the flight about 40 minutes to Tensing Hilary Airport Lukla with the amazing splendid view of the landscape and snow-capped mountains.  Lukla is a small hill town with trekkers, shopping stores, and a Police checkpoint.

After arranging your trekking stuff, we start our trek to Phakding for 3 hours along the paved stone steep through the Rhododendron forest. We pass some Sherpa villages and cross the suspension bridge on the way. You will take some shoots in the well-painted Mani stone on your steep.  The first view of the snow-capped mountain is also seen on the way to your trek. Overnight in the Lodge

You will reach Benkar village after one and a half hours of walking along the Dudhkoshi River. You get an excellent view of Mt. Thamserku (6008m) from this village, where we will have a tea break and continue to the Monjo for another hour. Monjo has a Sagarmatha National Park check post, so we have to enter our permit here, or we can buy a license and then descend to Jorsalle for lunch.

Again we continue our trek crossing the suspension bridge; then, we walk on the sandy rock trail on the bank of the river. We start steep climbing until Namche crosses the Hillary Bridge. You will get a panoramic view of the mountain from Namche, known as the Sherpa capital. Overnight in the Lode

According to the health and great Himalaya trekking expert, this level of altitude is recommended to have acclimatization, so our itinerary designer wants to have a rest day here to adjust the trekker’s body in this thin air. But you try to come out in the morning because it is a high chance of having a clear view.

After your breakfast in the late morning, we will start a short climb to the Everest View Hotel for two hours, where the supper view of Mt. Everest and other jaw-dropping scenery of the snow-capped mountain is. You can’t stop yourself from capturing more and more shots of mesmerizing beauty with your group and back descent to the Namche for the overnight.

After breakfast, we climb stone steps for half an hour. We start level walking for another two hours, approximately with the eye-catching sceneries of Thamserku, Kyoungde, Ama Dablam, Lhotse, and Mt Everest.

Then the trail descends to Fungithanka for lunch beside the river. Again ascending along the dusty path, we reach Tengboche, the biggest monastery in the Everest region, and have a close-up view of Amadablum Mountain. This is the Wang blessing Ceremony Overnight in the lodge.

Today is the primary day of the trek, the Mani Rumdi festival, which starts on the October full moon; you will get the chance to learn about the fundamentals of Buddhism and its culture. After breakfast, we will visit the Tengboche monastery nearby the lodge, a lively place. The significant rituals of the festival are empowerment, the mask dance, the fire puja, and more cultural rituals.

The empowerment ritual is to give vows to the monks who perform the rituals. The dancing rituals depict the victory of Buddism over the ‘Bon religion.’ Have lunch and dinner at the nearby lodge and enjoy the divine Buddist theological festival. Overnight in the lodge

This day is the Closing ceremony of the Mani Rimdu Festival. After breakfast at the hotel, you can observe the final day traditional mystic cultural program and the end of the Mani Rimdu Festival.

After breakfast, we will head back to Namche. The descending trail takes you to Fungithanka, where you will have lunch. After some steep ascends, the trail goes straight until Namche. Overnight in lodge

After breakfast, descending from the Namche bazaar, the trails go through the pine forest, crossing the high suspension bridge over the Dudh Koshi river. Then the trail goes along the river to reach Jorselle and continue our walk to Phakding crossing several bridges.

Have lunch there. After lunch, we will continue our walk to Lukla, passing the ascending and descending trails. Overnight in lodge

After breakfast, early morning flight to Kathmandu and transfer to the hotel. Have rest.

You will sightsee Pashupatinath (Holy temple of Hindus), Boudhanath (a sacred place for Buddhists), Swyambhunath (Temple of Hindus and Buddhists), and Kathmandu Durbar Square (Ancient Royal Palace). This is also leisurely for you.

After breakfast at the hotel, you will depart three hours before then your flight schedule.