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Travel Blogs from Lukla, Nepal
Mt. Everest trek :) 16 Days
... you would want to see the fun stuff I go thru. I still have 9 more days of trekking the Himalayas :) omg !!!! Day 1 October 12, Lukla to Phakding 9,186 FT / 2,800 M I'm up early, couldn't sleep last night due to the excitement if the trek, (not good ...
Nepal has some different sides to it
... of town the trail starts to drop down and SHIT, i know what that means...Everest Base Camp is definitely a lot higher than Lukla, so any altitude lost will need to be made up later. The scenery and vistas are absolutely stunning and breathtaking. ...
Near Death Experience In Flying Milk Crate
... seemed to take the flight ok, but there wasn't one moment on that flight that I wasn't at least a little concerned. We landed at Lukla. Depending on what you read, this is either the 1st or 2nd most dangerous airport in the world. It's a 460m air strip, ...
Trek to Everest Base Camp & Gokyo Lakes
... . Luckily by morning it had passed and we headed to the airport at 5am, for a 6.30am flight. We were flying to Lukla, regarded as the most dangerous airport in the world, as it’s up in the mountains and the weather conditions can change ...
Leaving Nepal
This is just the last update on Nepal, which seems like a decade ago. We are already in Vietnam so this entry will be quick. I hiked 7 hours back down to where Andy was. His headache was better but not gone completely. He still had ...
JEEZ!
... WHATEVER GOD YOU PRAY TO, YOU’LL CERTAINLY NEED A CLEAN OPEN LINE OF COMMUNICATION DURING YOUR FLIGHT TO LUKLA. ...
Lukla - Frust statt Dusche
Da die Paradise Lodge direkt neben dem Flughafen liegt, werden wir gegen 6:00 Uhr von den ersten Flugzeugen die landen und starten geweckt. Na, ja – wenigstens klingt das vielversprechend, was das Fliegen angeht. Wir haben erst "airport time" um ...
Everest - Day 12 - LAST DAY!
... - Thaong - Sagarmatha National Park - Monjo 2840m - Chumoa - Benkar 2710m - TokTok - Zamphut - Phakding 2610m - Ghat 2590m - Chheplung 2660m - Lukla 2800m Our final day! Yay! Namche to Lukla. Way up took us 6 hrs, way down 5. We had ...
Everest - Day 1 - Hangovers & Planes
... to stay in touch as will be very interesting to hear how Jack finds Australia and living in Melbourne. Definitely worlds away from Nepal. So I think we finally hauled arse back to our hotel at 1am, having to wake the gate keeper to let us ...
Lukla (2.860m) – Geschafft!
... wie eine kleine Ewigkeit. Zu allem Uebel wird es auch noch schattig, leicht feucht und kalt, je naeher wir Lukla kommen. Wir haben mittlerweile alle die Scheuklappen unten und stapfen im Laufschritt den letzten, wirklich schweren Anstieg hinauf. Wir sind ...
Kathmandu to Lukla
... start, left luggage with Razza, taxi to airport for 7:45 flight, flight delayed die to fog, departed 10:30am, crazy airport in lukla,met John (scotland) trekked 3hrs to Phakding, trekked West Bank of river, met kids, got sick from bad dal batt. Bad ...
Getting out of Lukla
13 flights now backlogged. No flights left in the morning. Waited around bakery to see if conditions improved. Weighed options, wait for weather to improve (unlikely and massive backlog means I'm unlikely to move for a few days even if it does), trek to ...
Everest Base Camp 5364m and Kalapatthar 5550m Trek
... and after my bank stop I find a tailor to fix the zip on my jacket. Thankfully they still have a skilled workforce in Nepal, they can fix, repair, replace anything you could think of! I buy a couple of things for my trekking and catch up with ...
Introduction to Everest Base Camp Trek
... allowing the tributary vassal state some limited domestic autonomy) to their logical conclusion. However, after decades of isolation Nepal was now allowing foreigners to visit its unknown mountain interior – the next expeditions to Everest were now ...
Il volo
... può fare. Ci dicono di attendere per circa mezz'ora. Girovaghiamo per l'aeroporto galvanizzati dalla possibilità di raggiungere Lukla in qualche modo fino a quando gli altoparlanti annunciano che il volo per Lukla sarebbe partito entro pochi minuti. ...
We climbed Mera Peak & all I got was two numb toes
... doing a bit of climbing. On the 29th we summited a peak called Mera Peak which is the highest possible in Nepal without a mountaineering permit. Don't worry we had a climbing sherpa named Lakpa Nuru Sherpa who has summited many peaks in the ...
The best and worst flight
We caught the first flight to Lukla, the scenery was absolutely amazing the flight was a bit rough. Half way through the flight the plane just dropped for at least 2 second. Picked up our guides and porters in Lukla and then headed for ...
Everest Trek Day 1: Lukla
On April 27th, we had reservations to take the first flight to Lukla, Nepal to begin the 14-day trek to Everest Base Camp. Just getting to the Kathmandu airport turned out to be much more difficult than we expected. On this day, a political party ...
The Flight to Lukla
We woke up pretty early to catch our domestic flight to Lukla. The airport was insanely crowded and we waited for an extra two hours before our flight took off. Not too bad considering the horror stories we heard about people getting stranded for more ...
Phakding - Lukla: Was fuer eine Flugbahn. OJE :(
Gestartet haben wir um 8:30 und waren richtig schnell. Es ging staedig bergauf doch wir meisterten unsere letzte Etappe in 2 1/2 h :). Wir fanden eine nette Lodge mit Garten wo wir es uns in der Sonne gemuetlich machten. Natuerlich mussten wir auch zum ...
The Trek Begins!!
... airport -very crowded. Our trek guide Subarna got us through the chaos and onto the tiny plane by which stage we were very excited. Lukla is meant to be one of the most dangerous airports in the world, just because it's on the side of a mountain and ...
Un trek au pied du toit du monde
... mon expérience, tel que rapporté fidèlement dans mon journal de bord, soir après soir. Jour 1 : Kathmandou à Lukla (2840m) Réveil à 4h du mat' pour prendre un minuscule avion branlant jusqu'à l'aéroport de Lukla, le plus ...
Poor Pony
As we made our way down to Lukla, my blood sugar was just constantly low. We made it to Phakding ( about 3 hours from Lukla), and I was just so weak, so a friendly woman suggested I considered hiring a horse to take me the rest of the way. ...
die Berge rufen....
Angekommen in Kathmandu bin ich sobald als möglich weitergeflogen nach Lukla. Es sollte wieder die Everest Region sein - vor den politischen Wahlen die ruhigste Wanderregion und der Gokyo Ri fehlte mir ja immer noch. Dieses Mal unterwegs allein, ohne ...
Extreme Landscape - Landing at Lukla Airport
... flight, the apprehension can be seen from our quiet demeanour. We were finally boarding a flight to the world's most dangerous airport, Lukla, with 10 incidents and accidents since 1973. We boarded our plane, a ...
We are trekking!
... out of the plane and saw the airstrip I was shocked how short the runway is and then just ends at a mountain. The approach to Lukla airport is exciting and very unnerving. The approach is down a steep sided valley for about ten minutes. The final approach ...
In Lukla and on the trek!
... to the ground. Also we were flying very close to the mountain passes, threading our way through the mountain tops. The landing at Lukla happen exactly the way everyone describes it. It's a control crash on a very short runway that is built into the ...
flight to Lukla the start of my trek
... low as Kathmandu ( first time in 62 years for snow in Kathmandu). ( Is this Global Warming here as well.) Finally we approach Lukla airport, this is a tiny airport for helicopters as well as twin engine 15 seater small planes. only 5 planes can be on the ...