Gokyo Lake Trek

Trip Note

Personal Travel Insurance

We highly recommended a compressive travel insurance package to all our clients, the insurance must cover helicopter rescue and evacuation expense at Height altitude for the trekkers to Gokyo Lake Trek, it will be assisted adequate protection tour to cover personal injury, medical expenses, repatriation expenses, and any kind of illness will be covered. Alpine Ramble Treks kindly ask for any of our travelers to send the reliable travel insurance copy through the email once you book the trip with us.  

Health and Fitness requirements 

Gokyo Lake Trek is an exciting and spectacular moderate trekking destination in the world. It’s an exceptional trekking route for travelers who wish to enjoy and explore the Himalayas and beautiful landscape on this planet. This trek basically starts from low land to high land as you are hiking in these areas than you have to be fit both of physically and mentality by yourself. Every day trek prefers about 4/5 hours appromax. As you hiking up to the high altitude than you have to prepare by physically and mentality to be succeed the trip, our provision is making your trip reliable and remarkable without any problems in every step to step with your wealth health. Our first priority is your safety and security entire the trip. you Should convenience yourself to take some pre-training course of the trek that would be easy, considering some physical exercise like jogging, running, climb stair-case, cycling, swimming and hitting gym etc.

Accommodation during the Trek

Accommodation in Kathmandu, you would be staying at the best hotel basically 3-4 stars, in twin-sharing basis. But Accommodations in trekking is very basic where you will get the room with pillows, warm and nice blanket, attach bath room if it’s available with comfortable beds during the 12 days Everest base camp trek, if you are single you get single bedroom as well with hygienic food, The Menu for food and accommodation have fixed by local management community.

Passport and Visa

All clients must have a valid passport with at least 6 months prior validity from return date Nepalese visas can be obtained from the immigration office or Consulate in your country or arrival in Kathmandu Airport.

Last minute booking

Concerning your desirable interested for any trip with us we even accept the last minute booking. You can book a trip directly by calling or sending a message anytime. But eventually, Last minute booking may not acceptable for Bhutan and Tibet trip.

Meals and Drinking Water

The Gokyo Lake trek route has numerous of tea houses along the way and every single tea houses has the menu system with different ethnic cuisines foods as well as western meals on the Menu; you could pick up any kinds of a meal as you like to have during the trek, we would highly recommended the vegetable items instead of Meat because meat in the mountain can be effected some time because it may not used to it for the new travelers in this region. But some places provide you typical Nepali meals which are different types of international meals. These are prepared by the local supplement. Every tourist Lodge has well-trained cook basically attention for clean, hygienic, fresh and nice testy foods. The variety of drinks and every lodge have safe drinking water or minerals bottles of water you could buy. If you buy water purification tablet from Kathmandu you can take water from the tap and purify by yourself this will be cheaper and help to control the plastic pollution as well. The water you could buy everywhere in Everest region at reasonable price but price would go high when you go to high altitude areas. We also recommend you to buy boiled water instead of cold which keeps your body warm.

Extra personal expenses on trekking

During the trek all the food are included (Lunch, Breakfast and Dinner with hot drinks) which will be provide by the company, behind the schedule of our package the meals and accommodations in Kathmandu will have to be arranged by yourself.

Possible Flight Delay in Kathmandu and Lukla: 

Generally, Kathmandu-Lukla – Kathmandu flights have been canceled due to the changing in unpredictable weather conditions around the mountains. In such conditions, we Alpine Ramble Treks kindly request all the travelers to make a plan while putting at least 2/3 possibility spree days for the Gokyo Lake trek. In this situation we would have been arranging the helicopter charter rescue so that can be as an option to catch your international flight on time and cost would be paid extra, you can claim lthat ater to your travel insurance once you get back to home, the company will be glad to provide the require documents such as like cancellation of domestic flights and receipt of Helicopter to show up the prove to travel insurance company. (Travel insurance is mandatory before joining Gokyo Lake Trek)

Trekking Equipment

We Alpine Ramble Treks recommended carrying these following trekking equipments lists.

• Daypack up to 40 liters,

• Down Jacket, Seasons sleeping bag- company will provide 
• Sun head or Gulf cap, Sunglasses, Headlamp 
• Ear-muffs, Sun cream.
• 1Pair liner gloves thin wool or synthetic.
• 2/3 Cotton t-shirts 
• 2Long sleeve polyester 
• Soft shell jacket water & wind resist. 

Check lists for Lower Body and Legs. 

• Pair nylon hiking short paints
• 1Pair cotton paints.
• Pair soft shell pants 

For Feet 

• 2Pair of loner socks, synthetic
• 1Pairs woolen socks wearing on the evening and 1Pair light sports shoe.
• hiking boots 

First aid 

• Imodium or Pepto Bismo capsules for upset stomach or diarrhea. 
• Diamox for altitude sickness. A guide will help you to take it.
• Small personal sized first-aid kit with blister treatments such as moleskin, bands, Anti-infection ointments, etc. First Aid Kits. 
• Alpine Ramble will provide you more medical for the trip.

Best Season

Best season forGokyo Lake Trek is spring (Marc to May) and autumn (September to November) these months are the best months for the Everest base camp trek. The temperature is moderate in these seasons and we guarantee amazing view and breathtaking scenery throughout the trek. If you wish to avoid crowds this trip during in winter (Dec., Jan. and Feb.) could also be the best options.

Hotels in Kathmandu

Alpine Ramble Treks will provide you standard level hotel services with breakfast. We also book the hotel according to your choices. Please let us know if you have any plans as per your choices to book the hotels like 5 stars categories: Hyatt Regency, Yak &Yeti, De’l Annapurna, The Everest Hotel, The Malla hotel, and any kind of hotels, we will be glad to assist according to your plans. 

Responsible for Tourism

Our experience field staffs/team strongly believes that we all are equally responsible to act in favor of the local culture and environment. We would like to follow the important role following the rules. 

• please respect the local people and their laws, custom and their beliefs
• please always ask your guides for permission before doing something in the local community. 
• please support the keep environment clean, wherever you would travel and dispose of rubbish
• please help the local community to encourage positive sides of tourism as long as possible.

We Alpine Ramble Treks involved in Kathmandu Environmental Education Project (KEEP) and organize eco-friendly trips that teach to make the sustainable positive environmentally sensitive of both travelers and communities.

Trip fixed depature dates and Cost

Alpine Ramble Treks Pvt.Ltd would be customized your trip itinerary according to your desire and budget. Please do not hesitate to Contact us for your interest. For more detail please email us info@alpineramble.com

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