Client Reviews

Writing this review of my solo trekking experience with Green Valley Nepal Treks back in November 2023. I did the Everest Base Camp Trek Helicopter Return to Kathmandu that took a duration of 10 days. It was an amazing experience from start to finish. The accommodations were better than I expected and the flexibility of this package was what made me book with Green Valley in the first place. Raj managed the trip smoothly and my guide Parsu was very friendly and helpful throughout the journey. I could not be any happier to recommend Green Valley if you are seeking an amazing trekking experience!

I did the Everest Base Camp Trek with Green Valley Nepal Treks in the last two weeks of November 2023. My guide Raj Lamalxa Kulung (Raj) and my porter Kershav Rai (Keshav) guided me safely up to the base camp. Having had altitude sickness during a trek in Kyrgyzstan, I was really worried about how I could manage these levels of altitude. In the end, I had no problems at all mainly due to the experienced recommendations of my guide, Raj:

• Water is key. The more the better. Aim for more than 5 or even 6 Liters a day. Once you get a headache, drink half a liter of water, it will get better.
• Trek high, sleep low: On acclimatization days, Raj proposed treks to higher altitudes which helped the acclimatization process.
• Keep it slow/frequent breaks: The trek is not technical, so you might want to rush ahead and gain ground. That‘s a mistake. Raj made sure we had sufficient breaks which helped the acclimatization process.
• Food and drinks: Raj put a lot of emphasis on eating and drinking the right things. Avoid oily dishes as they may take very long to digest. Avoid non veg items as there is no reliable cooling process for meat at this altitude. Instead go for dhaal bhat, the food of the porters, and ginger tea, due to the positive health effects of ginger.
• No preventive intake of medicine. This is the main point why Raj is a 5-star guide: In the teahouses, I have seen many other guides advising their clients to take Diamox against altitude sickness and medicine against headache as a preventive measure without giving them a chance to acclimatize naturally at all! I was so happy that Raj was not pumping me full of drugs just to have an easy trek, but instead to meticulously focus on my condition.
• Garlic: No recommendation of Raj but of Reinhold Messner: Take either garlic tablets, or raw garlic or eat garlic soup at the teahouses. It‘s a natural aid to acclimatization.

Apart from his great experience and recommendations, Raj had a great sense of humor and gave great tips on what to explore the next time I visit the Everest Region. To sum it all up, the trek was amazing and when I return to do the Three Passes Trek, I will request to do it with Raj and Keshav!

There are also some points of improvements you could request if you decide to do the EBC with Green Valley Nepal Treks:

• Plan an additional puffer day in Gorakshep: Due to snowfall, I was not able to ascent Kalla Patthar. I highly advise you to plan an additional day in Gorakshep to hedge yourself against the unpredictable weather.
• Do not trek from Lobuche to Pheriche on your return but instead trek from Lobuche to Dingboche. The winds storming through the valley of Pheriche are freezing! There is no reason to take this route.
• If you reach your lunch spot already at 10:30 am or 11 am, just take a tea break and then move on to your final destination. Having a filling lunch and then continuing trekking increases the chances of headaches.

My Dad, brother, and I all booked a trekking tour with Green Valley to Gokyo Cho La Pass via Everest Base Camp. They provided a seamless service and made the entire process very easy for us from start to finish. Our family had never done anything like this before so it was a massive help for us to have such a professional service and team supporting our needs/requests.

Raj provided us with details and assistance up until landing in Lukla. We were picked up at the airport when we arrived and dropped off at a hotel. We were also provided with equipment that we were missing that would be beneficial to have on the trip!

Once we got to Lukla, we were met by our guide (Lakpa). Lakpa took care of us throughout the entire trek and provided us with background knowledge, and insight into what we would need daily, and also set up our meals and accommodations before each tea house stay. Lakpa was super friendly and made the overall experience extremely enjoyable from start to finish.

I would highly recommend Green Valley if you are looking to book a trekking trip to Base Camp or anywhere in the national park.

I was just a passenger in this ride but I did not expect, being a passenger was also such a fun thing to do. The ups and downs, the lovely mountains, and the lake view make the ride a roller coaster or adventure. I absolutely loved the ride and all thanks to the GVNT team for offering such an adventurous package.

If anyone is visiting Pokhara, I recommend you to try the Sarangkot Viewpoint Hike in Pokhara. You will be amazed by the beauty of the traditional lifestyle, the environment, the peacefulness. This place filled my soul and heart with freshness and encouragement. I am certainly going for many more adventures in Nepal with the Green Valley Nepal Treks team.

Such an amazing helicopter flight from Gorakshep, getting the peeks of different villages, Sherpa settlements, tall Himalayan peaks, and the remote areas of Khumbu region. I didn't want to walk down the same path again after ascending through it.

So, I just booked the heli flight with Green Valley Nepal Treks and I didn't even imagine the service to be so smooth and amazing. Being a flight over such a high altitude, I thought there might be some trouble or at least a little uncertainty during the flight. However, that was not the case at all.

All I needed was to click almost hundreds of photos and videos from the helicopter and didn't even believe when they said the flight had landed. Thank you Arjun and team for arranging such a great flight and also looking for the best group of other travelers for me. Lovely first-time experience with the helicopter ride in the Himalayas.

Fed up with the plain terrain, I wanted to experience being in the Himalayas, and that’s when I planned a trek to Everest. On my friend’s referral, I reached out to Green Valley Nepal Treks for the arrangement of the trek. To my surprise, the arrangements were made beyond my expectations.

As I talked to Arjun, he disclosed all the potentials, prices, and opportunities of the trek package making everything as clear as crystal. Then I met them personally to be even more amazed by the way they greet, talk, and instruct the trekkers. I enjoyed every day of the Everest Trek with Green Valley Nepal Trek’s Guide.

I have to admire and appraise the encouragement and motivation offered by the guide whenever I get nervous or tired. He helped me fulfill my dream of going for Everest trekking. Moreover, the farewell party offered by the Green Valley Team in the hotel at Thamel was also one of a kind. Overall, Arjun and his team did not even give me a single chance to complain in those 14 days.

After such a long flight from my country to Nepal, I did not want to go for any other flight journey. However, reaching the Everest Base Camp was my actual and the only goal while coming to Nepal. On my research, I came across the Everest Base Camp Trek by road package from Green Valley Nepal Treks.

I had a good talk with Mr. Arjun, the trekking coordinator of GVNT and he was so well-known about the itinerary and the equipment’s required. As he was talking about the package, I was already convinced to go to the EBC trek by road with Green Valley Nepal Treks so I immediately booked the trek paid the amount and everything was fixed (departure date, trekking gear, etc.) within a couple of minutes by Arjun and his buddy Raj.

The story does not end here, as mentioned in the trek itinerary, the guide and porter actually arrived exactly at 5 am and we set off on a jeep drive to the Everest Base Camp Trek. Such an amazing drive, not just because of the scenes and scenarios, but also because of the friendly and calm behavior of the guides and porters.

Their behavior remained constant similar throughout the trek and I will remember these two people as those who helped my accomplish my dream of reaching the Everest Base Camp. Also, a huge thanks to the Green Valley Team (Raj and Arjun) for such an amazing trek arrangement.