Nepal Trip 2007: Day 3: Kathmandu-Rumjatar Camp at Aaderi 14 October 2007 12:30 am
Posted by Tracy in : Kathmandu, nepal, travel, pictures , add a commentFirst and foremost, I uploaded a few pictures to my Flickr pages today. Not many, because internet cafes have sporadic connection speeds and also we were about to get on a plane flight, about which I will provide a little more information below. Yes, I probably need a Flickr pro account just for this trip alone.
Fun fact! Please note that my spellings of place names are generally based on the itinerary I was emailed, but that doesn’t mean they’re spelled correctly (not that anything can be transliterated correctly considering I’m not using the right freaking alphabet). What that means is that this trip can be very hard to follow along on Nepal websites or library books like I tried to figure stuff out with all last month. Anyway. Like I said before, today is another air travel day, but within Nepal this time, I believe on the national airline, Yeti Air. Awesome! We’re flying from Kathmandu to Rumjatar, on a tiny little 12- or maybe 16-seat puddle-jumper airplane so small it has very strict baggage weight limits (except if your trekking party is so big that they take over an entire flight, as is our case; we’ll still have to be careful on the way back). The last time I flew on a plane like this it was between Vieques and Culebra, little islands southeast of Puerto Rico (and it may have been from Culebra to Vieques — I’m not entirely sure anymore). On that flight they actually arranged passengers by weight, to make sure the plane was evenly balanced. Whee! (more…)
