After a fairly good night sleep (well I couldn’t get my legs comfortable) OK Charlie said I had no bother getting to sleep with the odd cough (something I picked up in DINGBOCHE thanks to some American) during the night, I was woken up by the helicopter starting its engine at about 0600 hours and not long after the helicopter had taken off the first flight into LUKLA had arrived.
Flights into LUKLA have to start really early due
to the clouds as LUKLA is know as one of the most dangerous airports in the
world, not because of where the airstrip is, but because of the hills that the
plane has to navigate through to get to the airstrip.
Coming into
Lukla
We actually lazed around in our sleeping bags until
0730 hours before getting up for some breakfast (of which I had to give Charlie
my sausages because they were hot dogs that had been fried.....yuk). Once breakfast was done it was time to go for
a slow mooch down the one road LUKLA had that lead out with some little shops
and a few bars, cafes, restaurants on, would you believe that there is actually
a STARBUCKS here in LUKLA!!!!!
We did happen
to go into one place that had the most amazing chocolate cake......sorry it had
to be done. By the time that we got to
the lodge after buy a few bits and pieces the clouds had come in so all planes had
stopped flying into LUKLA (I just hope that we still get our flight on time
tomorrow at 0830 hours as I am not sure if the backlog of people that didn’t
get to fly today wil take priority or if they have to wait for a space to
become available on a flight out. We’ll
just have to wait and see.
Until then.....NAMASTE.
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