Trekking in Nepal

  Road to Everest: Tourists can breakfast in Kathmandu and drive to Khumbu for dinner With a new bridge, Khumbu region has become accessible by land, an alternative to flying to the precarious Lukla airport. Road to Everest: Tourists can breakfast in Kathmandu and drive to Khumbu for dinner     The newly constructed bridge over Dudh Koshi river at Orlang Ghat, Solukhumbu.                      Photo Courtesy: Khumbu Pasang lhamu Rural Municipality Pasang Tshering Sherpa of the village of Khumjung in the Everest region was thrilled to hear that a motorable bridge over Dudh Koshi river to complete a road link to the Everest region was inaugurated on Saturday. “Friends, if you are buying cars, please consider buying one that can roll on the roads of Solukhumbu. The time when we will be able to have breakfast in Kathmandu and dine in the Everest region is not far,” Sherpa posted on his Facebook page. Khumbu, also known as Everest region, the dream destination for many over the world, will s

    Nepal building a highway to Everest A new road linking Lukla to the rest of the country will transform the region, not all of it for the better November 4, 2020 Excavators at work on Thamdada, 24km south of Lukla, despite the fact that the Khumbu Municipality has run out of money to complete the Phaplu-Chaurikharka road. All photos: SURENDRA PHUYAL Excavators are clawing through sheer cliff faces, rocks tumble down to the Dudh Kosi below, and once in a while the sound of dynamite echoes in the gorge.  A new road linking the town of Chaurikharka just below Lukla to the rest of the country is due to open by December 2022, and work is going on despite the pandemic. Although the road will not enter the Sagarmatha National Park which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it will make trekking and climbing in the Everest region more accessible. But it will turn Lukla airfield largely redundant, while locals fear an erosion of the region’s Sherpa culture, architecture and lifestyle. On the Chi