Today was our day. We were awakened at 6 am by a knock on the hotel room door. Dawa told us that Yeti Air would try to fly us out of Kathmandu after the first set of regular flights returned from Lukla. After a short wait, we were up in the air at about 10 am and we were in Lukla before 11 am. The landing was unforgettable! A 3000 foot descent in 5 minutes onto a short sloping runway that can be described best as a plunge! Many of the Twin Otter passengers hid their heads in their hands and made a variety of sounds. The landing is hard, as you can expect, but all in all more like an amusement park ride for those of us who love flying. We had to wait several hours for one more of our group to arrive on a later flight, and by 2 pm we were crossing Lukla by foot to start our trek. The views of mountains were already spectacular, and we were only in the foothills!
We took a break in a teahouse in Thado Koshi, the halfway point for our day, and around 4 pm we arrived at our destination Phadking. After a leisurely dinner we turned in for the night in a nice little room in a small teahouse.
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