Lovely Moutains! Mount Everest at the middle.
That’s beautiful, isn’t it? The photo was taken from a Buddha Air airplane during a 45-minute mountain flight on February 13, Friday [scary date to go on mountain flight!]
Two times before the date, I had returned from airport without flying because of the weather. But this time, despite being on the date that many consider unlucky – one of the earliest computer virus was called Jerusalem infected computer only on Friday the 13th, I was lucky enough to get the flight.
And, I found out how lucky I was and what I missed after a few minutes [a bit quicker than half of the crew who were seated on the other side]. Beautiful mountains as if I was seeing them from my rooftop – so near and so majestic.
Lovely Moutains! Mount Everest at the middle.
I was not carrying a camera because I could not charge the batteries because of load-shedding but I took a few shots from the camera that my friend was carrying with him. When the beautiful lady [the air hostess] asked me if I wanted to go to cockpit to take photos from pilot’s window [yes! they let you do so], I said no and she glanced at me for a second surprised.
I thought, who wants to see such beautiful mountains through lens. It was truly an amazing experience [not as good as trekking to Everest base camp though, but I you have no time to got the EBC, the mountain flight is something not to miss in Kathmandu].
However, you can not take picture of you and mountain together!
Here are three tips for you if you want to go for Mountain flights in Nepal:
- Go to Buddha Air [disclosure: I was on the non-paid ticket that the airlines provides to my association as sponsorship]
- Get into plane as early as possible [I was the last and I got a seat on wings, so some obstructive views]
- Sit on the left side row. [so you are first half to see the mountains plus while returning, you can either sleep or talk]
Thanks to S. for these photos.
