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Travel Blogs from Lukla, Nepal

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High as a kite, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

High as a kite

A travel blog entry by the-rambler

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... running, directly to board an old Dornier heading   back in the same direction, this time under the clouds – destination Lukla, the most dangerous airport in the world. Three months after I visit, 18 die. Two-thirds of the way down the ...

Everest...Up Close and Personal, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Everest...Up Close and Personal

A travel blog entry by fishtails04

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... to be a collision course with the mountainside ahead. Suddenly, though, a clearing opened up below us, the rooftops of Lukla appeared with their fluttering prayer flags and within seconds we were bumping and screeching along the short runway. My stomach ...

Everest Three Passes - What a Trek!, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Everest Three Passes - What a Trek!

A travel blog entry by nickiemoore

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... Camp route we saw around four to ten people a day. Bliss! Time: 26 days, including mandatory acclimatisation days. Lowest altitude: Lukla (2800m) Highest altitudes: Chukkung Ri (5550m), Kongma La (5536m), Kala Patthar (5550m), Cho La (5368m), Gokyo Ri ...

Here at last..., Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Here at last...

A travel blog entry by benneesham

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... so are going for it. The plane is a tiny 8 seater twin engine, apparently the largest they can land on the small airstrip at Lukla, 2850m above sea level. I meet a Czech guy, Lada, on the plane and we decide to walk together as we are both doing solo ...

Day 3 of Everest base camp Trek..., Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Day 3 of Everest base camp Trek...

A travel blog entry by dunkersandbish

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... photos sorry will get some on soon. So we are on day 3 of our intrepid trek to everest base camp. We flew into Lukla on Thursday, it was an amazing flight and thankfully we landed safely despite its reputation as one of the worlds most dangerous airports! ...

Racing the clock back to Lukla, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Racing the clock back to Lukla

A travel blog entry by cubansteve80

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Journey above the clouds, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Journey above the clouds

A travel blog entry by amitdarji

... 24 inch theodolite 3 years earlier.  The mountain rose along the spine of the Himalaya to the then forbidden kingdom of Nepal. There was nothing special about Peak XV until Sikhdar compiled the survey.  The summit had been triangulated from six ...

My greatest trek yet.  Everest Base Camp!, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

My greatest trek yet. Everest Base Camp!

A travel blog entry by bobmckenzie

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... a quick stop. Check out the YouTube videos people have posted.  It's quite impressive. For this first day we walked from Lukla down to a village called Phakding (2,610m).  It's quite nice during the day as you can easily walk in t-shit and ...

Himalaya, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Himalaya

A travel blog entry by moskovskaja

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Von Kathmandu fliegen wir nach Lukla, der Ausgangspunkt fuer Trekkingtouren im ...

Everest Base Camp - day 1, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Everest Base Camp - day 1

A travel blog entry by pyc519

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... who is on a two-week school holiday. He's working during this time to make some money for his next term. We trekked from Lukla to Phakding, our destination for the day, in couple hours. It was a leisure walk and we got our first glimpse of Thamserku ...

Day 11: The home straight, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Day 11: The home straight

A travel blog entry by wickyjennings

... to prove it. Crampons and ice axe here i come. p.s. I never knew but if you climb an unnamed peak you get to name it. These dudes are planning on naming one such peak the Nepal Bangladeshi friendship peak. I hope they do it. I wish you well boys.   ...

To the top of the world... well nearly, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

To the top of the world... well nearly

A travel blog entry by mookie

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... in Namche Bazaar. Walk to Phakding and had a early night as everyone was still recovering from the Khukri bashing. Day 13 - Lukla Another Khukri extravaganza - great memories. Next day we flew back to Kathmandu after waiting for more than an hour at ...

Lukla STOL port, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Lukla STOL port

A travel blog entry by radsolv

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Some views of Lukla landing strip from ...

Everest.......the big one.....part 1 !!, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Everest.......the big one.....part 1 !!

A travel blog entry by slw321

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... as we climbed up to Namche Bazaar (3440m). You will see from the photos that as we embarked upon the first day from Lukla to Phakding the weather was tremendous, with azure blue skies and almost balmy temperatures. It was a pretty short trek and not too ...

perelet Katmandu - Lukla, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

perelet Katmandu - Lukla

A travel blog entry by readtr

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С утра, оставив в гостинице вещи, которые ...

Everest....the Big One......Part 2!!!, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Everest....the Big One......Part 2!!!

A travel blog entry by slw321

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... enough air to sustain you up some of the steep climbs. I understand the phrase I have seen written many times since coming to Nepal! The Nepali definition of “flat” is “a little bit up and a little bit down”…….it is so ...

A hairy landing in Lukla, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

A hairy landing in Lukla

A travel blog entry by cubansteve80

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Four days back down, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Four days back down

A travel blog entry by amitdarji

... ;We stood there stairing as the clouds came right at us and then continued up into the heavens. We eventually reached the gates at Lukla where we had started our journey some 12 days ago.  We were all alot more tired from when we first started and I ...

In the shadow of Everest, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

In the shadow of Everest

A travel blog entry by niaandandrew

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... few minutes and went for a wash in a small waterfall, which was cold but refreshing! The next day was a four hour walk back to Lukla, where our bedroom overlooked the runway just to psyche us up for the flight the next day. We had a short walk around the ...

Day 23: Get me off this mountain, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Day 23: Get me off this mountain

A travel blog entry by kickthrough

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Meters long the runway was: 100 People who cried: 2 Security consisted of: "You have gun?! You have knife?! No? Ok" IDs required to get on plane: 0 Food items stolen off hungover Ken: Coke and half a Twix People that fit in plane: 12 Doors between us and ...

The trek, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

The trek

A travel blog entry by gypsymichelle

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I did a 16 day trek to Gokyo Ri in the Everest region. We flew into Lukla and as you can see from the pictures, another crazy airport--this one on the side of a mountain! The first couple of days were cloudy, but once it cleared up the views ...

Last day in the Khumbu :-(, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Last day in the Khumbu :-(

A travel blog entry by bfayolle

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... ... each time we were passing a village I was wondering whether it was Lukla. Phakding is below Lukla in elevation so we arrived in Lukla pretty tired. I saw some adorable kids jumping in the puddles. Straight in it, two feet! It made me want to be a kid ...

Mt. Everest, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Mt. Everest

A travel blog entry by superval

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... to come back the next day, hoping the weather would be better and there would be more flights.  The second night in Lukla was stayed at a nicer cheaper place (although when we got up the next morning at 5am the workers were still up playing ...

Katam!, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Katam!

A travel blog entry by pyc519

... of my body. This was probably too much information for all of you. The next day, we left Namche and hauled ass down to Lukla in 6 1/2 hours. Along the way, we ran into ginormous groups of trekkers heading up. We both felt glad that we did the trek ...

Tribute to the Zoksios, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Tribute to the Zoksios

A travel blog entry by superval

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Donkeys were the pack animal of choice on the Annapurna circut, and the Zoksios (yak/cow cross breed) were the animals of choice for the Everest Circut.  Donkeys I was not so fond of, however I developed a respect and liking for these Yak/ Cow ...

Carrying a new mindset to Kathmandu, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Carrying a new mindset to Kathmandu

A travel blog entry by markkacik

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... a lot of time enjoying each step, each breath, each incredible sight. Each time that my mind reminded me I will fly from Lukla in less than 24 hours there came this sinking feeling in my gut.  I get that same feeling now as I ...

Back to Kathmandu, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

Back to Kathmandu

A travel blog entry by helenseims

... the other.  The heat and dust hits you as we wait for our luggage. We are met once again by the representatives of Nepal Trail Blazers trekking company and I am then taken back to the L'Annapurna Hotel. Tomorrow I am going sight seeing around the ...

Himalayan mountains here we come..., Lukla/Phakding, Nepal travel blog

Himalayan mountains here we come...

A travel blog entry by bfayolle

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... never seen anything like that, except for maybe once or twice when I flew over the Alps which is pretty amazing as well. Landing in Lukla was an experience in itself. The runway is small and on the border of the mountain. Deana was waiting for me at the ...

terminal luminant, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

terminal luminant

A travel blog entry by blummo

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עת הגעתי ללוקלה המליצו לי הסוכנים על ביקור ...

the beginning, Lukla, Nepal travel blog

the beginning

A travel blog entry by blummo

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גם טיול ארוך הנמשך כמעט עשרים יום מתחיל ...

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