Meals on the Everest Base Camp Trek

What do you eat whereas trekking to Everest Base Camp in Nepal? That’s fairly an essential query, trekking all day at altitude makes you hungry! Fortunately you may order quite a lot of scorching cooked dishes at your teahouse with a alternative of each Nepali and western meals each meal.

The EBC (Everest Base Camp) trek is a teahouse trek. Trekkers keep in teahouses, that are guesthouses designed for this function in small villages alongside the mountaineering path. Staying in teahouses solely value a greenback or two per night time in case you eat there. It is extremely handy, you don’t have to hold tenting or cooking gear simply trekking from teahouse to teahouse. Our Everest Base Camp Trekking information talk about every part concerning the trek and must be useful if you’re getting ready for the EBC trek.

What meals is obtainable in teahouses?

The menu served in most teahouses are very comparable. Meals within the Tea homes on EBC was good and never too costly contemplating how low cost lodging is and that the porters and yaks have to hold all of the meals up the mountain.

Meals obtainable on most tea home menus; Thukpa (noodle soup), Momos (dumplings), Sherpa stew, quite a lot of Soups, Macaroni, Spaghetti, Potato, Pizza, Sandwiches, Yak steak, Rice, Burger with chips, Spring Rolls. There have been additionally a number of breakfast possibility breakfast choices; Tibetan bread, Chapatti, Toast with jam or honey, French toast, Pancakes, Porridge with milk, Boiled or fried egg

How a lot is meals on the Everest Base Camp Trek?

On the Everest Base Camp trek $25 a day must be sufficient for 3 good meals per day, about $8 per meal. We spent NPR 27 094 / USD $228 in complete on meals on an 11-day trek that’s a median of $21 per day. For us breakfast and dinner was a bit cheaper and lunch we ate extra. Take a look at Everest Base Camp Trek Value for all value and costs throughout the trek.

The costs of meals differ on the Everest Base Camp path, usually getting a bit dearer with a rise in altitude since porters have to hold every part up the mountain.

Total meals costs on EBC are fairly much like these on the opposite standard trekking routes such because the Annapurna Base Camp trek or the Poon Hill trek.

Meals on Everest Base Camp Trek

Teahouse Breakfast

Our favourite for breakfast was an omelet (2 eggs) and toast and tea with milk, I loved the Masala tea. Eggs had been at all times obtainable as an omelet, scrambled, fried or boiled.

We additionally had porridge or pancakes, quite a lot of toppings (honey, fruit, chocolate and many others.) had been obtainable. The price of eggs, porridge and pancakes had been about the identical. NPR 500 plain ($4.30) and about NPR 100 (70 cents) for topping e.g. cheese or chocolate. Tea was about NPR 100 for a cup and occasional NPR 150 (prompt), so breakfast labored out about NPR 600 ($5).

I’m a giant caffeine junkie, however solely had one or two good coffees, for very costly, on the whole trek. Wish to drink good espresso whereas mountaineering to Everest Base Camp? I carry my Aeropress on most hikes, mild, straightforward and nice espresso!

Planning for EBC? See our urged Everest Base Camp Trek itinerary.

EBC Teahouse meals

We often had a late lunch when arriving (15:00) and never too lengthy after a reasonably early dinner (19:00).

Dal Bhat – in all probability the nationwide dish of Nepal. Nepali’s are very happy with their Dal Bhat and ‘Dal Energy’ t-shirts are bought in all places. Dal means lentil soup, and Bhat means steamed rice, so it’s cooked lentils served with rice. Nepalese dal bhat is rice and lentil soup sometimes accompanied by a vegetable curry (tarkari), a combination of spicy greens (pickles) and greens (sak). It’s served with papadums (deep fried dough) in a metallic tray. The porters reside on dal. Dal is just not loopy low cost (about NPR 700 – $5.50). The nice factor in case you order dal is that you may ask for extra. When your plate is empty and the kitchen comes round with the dal simply ask for extra. It’s wholesome and I stuffed up on dal somedays!

Value of Dal Bhat elevated as we climbed greater up the mountain:

• Namche Bazaar (3440m) – Avg. NRP 700
• Lobuche (4930m) Avg. NRP 850
• Gorakshep (5180m) Avg. NRP 850

Ravenous after a protracted day of strolling I ordered for quantity! We regularly ordered spaghetti with cheese and tomato, not dangerous and the parts had been large. I typically had vegetable fried rice for dinner.

For snacks we ate principally snicker bars, there was cake and pastries obtainable at a number of the tea homes, not too get scurvy we purchased a few apples on the way in which.

We stayed clear from meat not likely trusting the standard of meat up right here, carried by porters for a few days we had doubts about refrigeration and it will get very costly greater up. I handled myself to a Yak steak one night time, it was dry and difficult.

EBC Trek Fascinating Dishes

You may have a fairly huge collection of meals on the tea home menus, listed here are some objects you is probably not acquainted with.

Sherpa Stew (Syakpa) – a standard Sherpa meals, this broth (soup/stew) is created from handmade noodles, meat from sheep or yak, potato, radishes, carrot, spinach, onions and different spices.

Tibetan Bread – Flatbread, fried in oil, tasty, filling, generally very oily.

Momos – dumplings, go for vegetable or cheese and potato, ask for cold sauce if there may be none, the inexperienced sauce is kind of good!

Springrolls- not the tiny guys you get in Vietnam, a giant deep fried pie, I had comparable empanadas. Typically the filling is superior, generally unusual, we eaven had spaghetti in springrolls!

Mars Roll – It’s a must to do that one! A Mars Bar wrapped in dough and deep fried, so a Springroll with a Mars Bar inside, additionally obtainable as Snicker Rolls.

Pizza – flat bread with tomato sauce and yak cheese, not too dangerous. I even had one with a crispy base! Go vegetarian, very suspicious fermented chilly meat being handed on as salami.

Water throughout EBC trek

All the things turns into dearer because the altitude will increase. Water begins at 100 NPR ($1) for 1.5L and is 400 NPR ($ 4.00) once you attain Gorakshep.

We saved a ton by consuming water in our Lifestraw bottles. There are many water sources alongside the way in which, however the water is just not potable, with a Lifestraw we may simply refill and drink on the way in which. That is additionally nice for the atmosphere since you don’t use loads of plastic bottles that’s simply garbage on the mountain!

For those who use a lifestraw bottle watch out to not let your bottle freeze filled with water at Gorakshep, this may injury the filter.

Are you able to drink alchohol on the Everest Base Camp Trek?

Ingesting on the EBC trek is just not advisable. Alcohol dehydrates you which may enhance or probabilities of get alcohol illness. Alcohol is obtainable at some tea homes, it’s expensive.

Tea homes on the EBC trek

Lodging on path to Everest Base Camp is affordable in most tea homes. We spent NPR 5590 / $47 on 11 nights lodging, thus NPR 500 ($4) per night time for a double room.

The meals on the teahouses is just not dangerous and most of the people eat 2 or 3 meals per day on the tea homes the place you keep. It’s anticipated that you’ll eat dinner and breakfast on the tea home the place you in a single day, in case you don’t you might be charged much more for lodging ($15 as an alternative of $3).

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