Flight to Lukla

Hi readers....I have some connection today so will try to blog as much as possible. I don't know whether we will have connection further up the mountain, but I'll do by best to keep you posted. 

As we fly on our tiny plane through the Himalaya’s from Kathmandu to Lukla in Nepal, we can’t help but feel excited!! I'm trekking to Everest Base Camp.  The place where all the great high altitude mountaineers of the world make their camp while they acclimatize for weeks on end before their final push to the top of the world’s highest mountain.

About 10 minutes into the flight the white peaks of the Himalayas come into view. Wow, its majestic!!!  It is a thrill made even more thrilling by the fact that we are flying in a 14 seat twin otter plane between these majestic peaks.

The Tenzing-Hillary airport stands at an altitude of 2800 metres in the middle of the Himalayas.  It is a short landing strip built at a steep grade to slow the planes down quickly.

No time to stop and think about what we are about to do though.  Once we land, we have to trek for 8hrs hours to our sleep over tea house ...so we are off....