Nepal 2011.

April 6, 2011

Not much sleep last night as I was worried weather or not I'd get the 5:00a.m. wake up call. Thank God I woke up as my suspicions came true...

Today we met the 3rd person in our group. Yuta from Japan. I met Nils from Denmark last night and this would be our group along with two porters and our guide. We arrived at the domestic terminal (right next to the "international" one) to a cluster of expeditions heading up to Everest. Needless to say they had a lot more gear than us. But one could truly feel that this was it. Trekkers and climbers from all over the world and small little 14 passenger planes! Wohoo. For some reason or another we were due at the airport at 9:00 yet ended up hanging out for two hours before flying. Never figured this one out.


All aboard! Needless to say, I would rather be the last one in. Patience has it's privileges. The flight would take us 30 minutes to Lukla which as the distinction of "Worlds most dangerous airports" but to the best of my research only one major (is there such a thing as minor?) crash back in 2008.

And as long as the weather is good shouldn't be an issue...time to fly!




Thank God it's only a 30 minute flight. Needless to say there was no "in flight" movie!











In flight service consisted of candy? and cotton for the ears as this is one loud, loud flight!!











As I mentioned earlier, being last on board has it's privileges!












Lukla!

The airport is built into the mountain at a 10~30 degree angle as to help slow down, stop the planes upon landing and helping with the take off...