Tips for Self-riding Tour to Mt. Everest Base Camp
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Tips for Self-riding Tour to Mt. Everest Base Camp

Update: Apr. 17th, 2013

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Tips for Self-riding Tour to Mt. Everest Base Camp – Necessary Equipments

Special tools for bicycle: two standby inner tubes, one cover tyre, chain belt puncher, inflator, two brake cables, four brake rubbers, chain rectifier, pliers and glue. These tools are very necessary for tourists making a self-riding tour to Mt. Everest Base Camp since there is certain likelihood that the bicycle might encounter with some troubles on the poor road.

Backpack with some necessary stuffs, such as the rain-proof coat, sunbonnet, sunglasses, sun-blocking cream and lipstick. These stuffs could protect tourists from the strong ultraviolet radiation. There are villages providing boiled water for tourists making a self-riding tour to Mt. Everest Base Camp and a vacuum bottle could ensure the boiled water supply all the way.

Tourists making a self-riding tour to Mt. Everest Base Camp are also suggested to prepare a comfortable sleeping bag to cope with the low temperature in the night. For tourists willing to stay overnight in the camp rather than in the guesthouse, a moisture-proof pad is quite necessary.

Tips for Self-riding Tour to Mt. Everest Base Camp – Health Care

Drugs for external use: safflower oil, band-aid, mercurochrome, gauze, adhesive plaster, bandage, alcohol. Medicines for the precaution and relieving of the high altitude sickness should also be prepared, including the glucose and rodiola rosea. In addition, tourists making a self-riding tour to Mt. Everest Base Camp should also prepare medicines effective in driving off the cold, anti-inflammatory drug and medicines for enterogastritis in case of need.

It is a great physical challenge for human beings riding in the plateau environment with an altitude around 5200 meters. For the consideration of safety and health, tourists making a self-riding tour to Mt. Everest Base Camp should take enough rest during the riding journey. Suitable physical adjustment could decrease the risk of this riding tour.

Tips for Self-riding Tour to Mt. Everest Base Camp – Safety

Tourists planning a self-driving tour to Mt. Everest Base Camp should note that the period between July and August is the rainy season, among which period the road might be blocked by the debris flow. The best season for riding tour to the Base Camp is in May, September and August.

It is of great importance to get protected from the cold wind, especially the head. The wind could lead to cold easily. It is necessary to take some medicines for precaution if you encounter with severe climate condition. The cold could easily lead to high altitude sickness on Tibet Plateau.

For tourists planning to camp in the wild during the self-riding tour to Mt. Everest Base Camp, choose a suitable campsite is very important. Tourists are highly advised to avoid camping at the lower reaches of the mountain streams at Mt. Everest area since there might be sudden flash flood in this region. In addition, it is a bad choice to settle the tent at the foot of the hills with moveable stones since the moving wild animals might make the rolling stones a big threat to your safety.

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