Raise a toast at the world’s highest cafe in Nepal

If you can imagine having a hot cup of coffee at 15400 ft, a trip to Nepal should be on your bucket list. The cafe goes by the name of, well, the World’s Highest Bakery Cafe, and is at Lobuche in Nepal. Those on their way to the Everest Base Camp will find the cafe en route, two days before they reach the base camp.

The cafe makes for an essential stop in the life of trekkers on their way to one of the biggest trekking feats in the world. Here, much to everyone’s surprise, you can order beer, coffee, and even some good, old apple pie. They even play documentary movies at night for anyone who’s missing home and its comfort in the middle of sheer wilderness here. On a regular evening, you might be having a coffee here with Neil Young streaming from the music system here.
The bakery at Lobuche, apart from being the highest in the world, is a sight that stands in contrast to the barren, lunar landscape that sprawls all around. It is quite a feat to build and then run a cafe here, though just heating up water for a simple coffee takes around 15 minutes at this altitude!

While you are on your way to the World’s Highest Bakery Cafe, you will be crossing the Lobuche Pass. The pass lies at a staggering altitude of 16210 ft; marking the land around the pass are memorial monuments of climbers that include Scott FIscher, who died on his way back from the Everest in 1996. While his body is still a bit off from the trekking line on the mountain, you can pay respects to him at the Lobuche Pass memorial.
Of course, a toast to him and the other climbers can be raised at the World’s Highest Bakery Cafe.