SGTrekker 10D9N Everest Panorama Trek (17-26 March 2011)
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limwhow
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Hahaha.. Stevewhy, you have observed close and well- no one can beat a Macro shooter like yourself- yes, Cnleong was saying his prayers and Goose Goi was really gone with his drink!!! Hahaha...Stevewhy said:
Yupe... Yupe. Stevewhy's video is the most tok gong one!campoes said:Good observation Stevewhy
Please post the landing video in "nearby Lukla airport" can't wait too see it heheheheh
Yah, Dinosour! Why didn't I think of that??!! That WAS our forth welcome drink in Vaishali! Hahaha... Like that we drink Vaishali will go Pok-gai from welcome drink too!!! Hahaha...Dinosour said:
Wind 450D said:
Hahaha... I never thought of it this way- haha... So funny the way you say it, Ah Wind!!!
wkcheah
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T R A V E L O G U E
Our troubles continued...
...
At this point in time, all kinds of thoughts were in every one's mind.
And every body was thinking of very different things.
But Adrian and Melvin still had one last fighting chance to pull the whole trick together...
...
...
Tough job, man, these two brave men.
I never realised that everyone looked so moody that day... hahaha..
Adrian & Melvin, as I have always said - no matter what happens on an sgtrekker trip, in the end, everyone goes home HAPPY!!
limwhow
Senior Member
Yaha.... that was really an unforgettable experience too.30. Another funny incident in airport.
After Jack wear the pants once, washed and ironed it, now only he realized that the sensormatic RF security tag still attached.
Johnny tried to remove the tag by using his foldable cutting fliers....this scene attracted everyone attention including the aiport police....oops ;p
31. After Johnny managed to remove the tag, the police asked him to checked in the cutting plier.
In between he told me "No still photography in airport premises"
32. Johnny trying to tell that we already checked in our baggage and it's just a survival kit, he didn't mean to use it for other purpose.
Again this attracts everyone attention, luckily our local guide Mahesh come to rescue and problem solved.
"No people are harmed or arrested during this incident and we became close friend of the airport police hehehe
But I think I just woke up when it happened, so I was a little blur blur to fully comprehend the whole incidence.... hahaha...
I never realised that everyone looked so moody that day... hahaha..
Adrian & Melvin, as I have always said - no matter what happens on an sgtrekker trip, in the end, everyone goes home HAPPY!!
Haha... yah, wkcheah, VERY VERY moody, from what I saw in the photo!
limwhow
Senior Member
T R A V E L O G U E
Day 5 - Kathmandu to Lukla
After so many days of suspension, even the most excited traveller also will become sian-one-half liao already, that is if we really still fail to fly on Day 5.
Thus, on this day we all Fell-in, dumped our luggage, dropped ourselves onto the bus seats, waited at the Kathmandu domestic airport, and just hoped for the best.
Kathmandu domestic airport's security isn't the most fantastic.
Acpical and I were able to sneaked past the security guards to reach the grounds of the outside.
... and to snap a sunrise shot of Kathmandu - my very first Kathmandu sunrise shot.
Adrian seemed to have discovered a better way of making heaps of money rather than doing this high risk job that he is currently doing...
Just before 8am, we got news that Mahesh, our main Nepali guide, had banged some tables and switched us from our original airline to SITA Air.
This was done for the greater interest of the whole group as SITA Air was able to fly us off really quickly instead of being pushed ALL the way to a much later flight.
Of course, he seemed to have conveniently forgotten that the very last mishap in October 2010 that occured at Lukla Airport involved a plane from SITA Air...
Whatever it was, the choice was not ours.
If there was a chance to land at Lukla, we would just grab it.
And here, was a record shot of us doing just that...
Day 5 - Kathmandu to Lukla
After so many days of suspension, even the most excited traveller also will become sian-one-half liao already, that is if we really still fail to fly on Day 5.
Thus, on this day we all Fell-in, dumped our luggage, dropped ourselves onto the bus seats, waited at the Kathmandu domestic airport, and just hoped for the best.
Kathmandu domestic airport's security isn't the most fantastic.
Acpical and I were able to sneaked past the security guards to reach the grounds of the outside.
... and to snap a sunrise shot of Kathmandu - my very first Kathmandu sunrise shot.
Adrian seemed to have discovered a better way of making heaps of money rather than doing this high risk job that he is currently doing...
Just before 8am, we got news that Mahesh, our main Nepali guide, had banged some tables and switched us from our original airline to SITA Air.
This was done for the greater interest of the whole group as SITA Air was able to fly us off really quickly instead of being pushed ALL the way to a much later flight.
Of course, he seemed to have conveniently forgotten that the very last mishap in October 2010 that occured at Lukla Airport involved a plane from SITA Air...
Whatever it was, the choice was not ours.
If there was a chance to land at Lukla, we would just grab it.
And here, was a record shot of us doing just that...
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limwhow
Senior Member
One of Our Most Exciting Flights... ever.
As if being squeezed into a single-row-each-side teeny-weeny one-propeller-on-each-side plane was not nerve-wrecking enough...
The fact that we could actually see what the Pilot and the Co-pilot was doing was no barrier (door) between the passengers and the cockpit was an eye-opening experience (if not more nerve-wrecking as we approached the mountain valleys and the runway) in its very self!
By now, we all have acquired some Nepali terms already.
And most of us know that Dharei Ramro means 'Very Good'!
And it's only natural that the instinct to preserve the moment for posterity kicked in, and Adrian and wkcheah, and every one else started snapping away almost non-stop while on this 30 minutes flight.
We saw the Himalayan ranges and the Middle Mountains. I am sure all my fellow team mates have plenty of photos of these beautiful moments. So I am eagerly awaiting their shots... Comes guys, post post!!
On this day, we were in team one and we took off first. It was sheer exhilaration to behold the mountains coming closer and closer to our plane as we edge towards Lukla. But honestly, the runway of Lukla Airport came up quicker than we expected. I just managed to lift up my camera and the runway was already in sight!
Hearts thumping, hands cold and clammy, lips dried and cracking - we all sat with breaths abated...
And on this day too, the landing was perfect.
No jolts, no bumps, no turbulence, almost nothing.
Before we knew it, the Pilot and Co-Pilot have done a most wonderful job of landing us in Tenzing-Hilary Airport (for ease of remembering, we'd just call it Lukla Airport lah...).
EVERYONE was cheering, as though they have gone through a most life-changing experience.
Even Baboo, the guide, was cheering with us... Hahaha...
Jokes all aside, the Pilot and Co-Pilot were most professional in carrying out their duties. And I must say, it is with flight crew like this that the incidence rate continues to be low.
My salute to ALL the flight crew on the flights to Lukla!!
As if being squeezed into a single-row-each-side teeny-weeny one-propeller-on-each-side plane was not nerve-wrecking enough...
The fact that we could actually see what the Pilot and the Co-pilot was doing was no barrier (door) between the passengers and the cockpit was an eye-opening experience (if not more nerve-wrecking as we approached the mountain valleys and the runway) in its very self!
By now, we all have acquired some Nepali terms already.
And most of us know that Dharei Ramro means 'Very Good'!
And it's only natural that the instinct to preserve the moment for posterity kicked in, and Adrian and wkcheah, and every one else started snapping away almost non-stop while on this 30 minutes flight.
We saw the Himalayan ranges and the Middle Mountains. I am sure all my fellow team mates have plenty of photos of these beautiful moments. So I am eagerly awaiting their shots... Comes guys, post post!!
On this day, we were in team one and we took off first. It was sheer exhilaration to behold the mountains coming closer and closer to our plane as we edge towards Lukla. But honestly, the runway of Lukla Airport came up quicker than we expected. I just managed to lift up my camera and the runway was already in sight!
Hearts thumping, hands cold and clammy, lips dried and cracking - we all sat with breaths abated...
And on this day too, the landing was perfect.
No jolts, no bumps, no turbulence, almost nothing.
Before we knew it, the Pilot and Co-Pilot have done a most wonderful job of landing us in Tenzing-Hilary Airport (for ease of remembering, we'd just call it Lukla Airport lah...).
EVERYONE was cheering, as though they have gone through a most life-changing experience.
Even Baboo, the guide, was cheering with us... Hahaha...
Jokes all aside, the Pilot and Co-Pilot were most professional in carrying out their duties. And I must say, it is with flight crew like this that the incidence rate continues to be low.
My salute to ALL the flight crew on the flights to Lukla!!
limwhow
Senior Member
HAha... thanks brother!
Thanks, brother! Yupe, it was Adrian and Melvin who really pushed the wrong thing through.
Otherwise we would have ended up drinking welcome drink in Hotel Vaishali for 10 days... HAhahaha...!
limwhow
Senior Member
We all know Stevewhy has a High Definition Video of the landing of the plane at Lukla Airport.
And we are all awaiting eagerly his video.
Of course, Stevewhy and half of our team was on flight two.
Here is a small humble video shot from just behind the cockpit of the landing of flight one...
Landing of Flight 01 at Lukla Airport with all those crazy fellow screaming their lungs out...
[video=youtube;rrzRBvBNzj0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrzRBvBNzj0[/video]
And we are all awaiting eagerly his video.
Of course, Stevewhy and half of our team was on flight two.
Here is a small humble video shot from just behind the cockpit of the landing of flight one...
Landing of Flight 01 at Lukla Airport with all those crazy fellow screaming their lungs out...
[video=youtube;rrzRBvBNzj0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrzRBvBNzj0[/video]
SgTrekker
New Member
Mingalabar people. This is Melvin sending my replies for this thread from Myanmar. I am enjoying all the updates from everyone. I am also waiting for stevewhy to post up his video on the infamous "lukla" airport landing!
More photos will be posted till my return from the friendly Land of smiles.
More photos will be posted till my return from the friendly Land of smiles.
And you are laughing too.......
Few more shots from the first 2 days
Snake means water
IMG_2073-154 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
Baktapur
IMG_2082-163 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
Little Girl
IMG_2143-221 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
Sisters
IMG_2094-175 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
Snake means water
IMG_2073-154 by g_wildcat66, on FlickrBaktapur
IMG_2082-163 by g_wildcat66, on FlickrLittle Girl
IMG_2143-221 by g_wildcat66, on FlickrSisters
IMG_2094-175 by g_wildcat66, on FlickrHappy Holi
IMG_2134-212 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
IMG_2119-197 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
IMG_2117-195 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
IMG_2113-191 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
IMG_2130-208 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
IMG_2134-212 by g_wildcat66, on FlickrIMG_2119-197 by g_wildcat66, on FlickrIMG_2117-195 by g_wildcat66, on FlickrIMG_2113-191 by g_wildcat66, on FlickrIMG_2130-208 by g_wildcat66, on FlickrShots taken from the U-turn flight
IMG_2181-259 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
IMG_2173-251 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
IMG_2172-250 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
IMG_2170-248 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
IMG_2174-252 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
IMG_2181-259 by g_wildcat66, on FlickrIMG_2173-251 by g_wildcat66, on FlickrIMG_2172-250 by g_wildcat66, on FlickrIMG_2170-248 by g_wildcat66, on FlickrIMG_2174-252 by g_wildcat66, on Flickr
vngks
New Member
Our 2 hamsum fellow trekkers Johnny and Goose did what they promised to do if we touched down at Lukla Airport - Kiss and lick the tarmac.
Johnny: Wat it taste like huh?
Goose: Think it'll taste like chicken. Wait I try.
Goose: < lick lick >
Goose: OMGWTFBBQ #%*&*^^%#$ Ptooooi! Gah, taste worse than your week old underwear!
Johnny: Wat it taste like huh?
Goose: Think it'll taste like chicken. Wait I try.
Goose: < lick lick >
Goose: OMGWTFBBQ #%*&*^^%#$ Ptooooi! Gah, taste worse than your week old underwear!
limwhow
Senior Member
JohnnyLCP, this is, as I have said before, truly a beautiful piece!
Wonderful portray of the way the trekkers walked!
Yah, waited so many days for you aready.... hahaha..Mingalabar people. This is Melvin sending my replies for this thread from Myanmar. I am enjoying all the updates from everyone. I am also waiting for stevewhy to post up his video on the infamous "lukla" airport landing!
More photos will be posted till my return from the friendly Land of smiles.
But still I don't blame you, for after Yangon, chances are you will be out of touch (no internet access) for the next 5 days until your return...
Yah... laughing like siao!
limwhow
Senior Member
Our 2 hamsum fellow trekkers Johnny and Goose did what they promised to do if we touched down at Lukla Airport - Kiss and lick the tarmac.
Johnny: Wat it taste like huh?
Goose: Think it'll taste like chicken. Wait I try.
Goose: < lick lick >
Goose: OMGWTFBBQ #%*&*^^%#$ Ptooooi! Gah, taste worse than your week old underwear!
HAHAHAHA... That is FUNNY!
Yupe! We were all waiting for this 'Kissing the Grounds of Lukla' shot!
I completely missed it... great shot, vngks!
wkcheah
New Member
I'm also enjoying the beautiful and funny captures from everyone on this thread from KL (and Manila next week). Will try to catch up over the weekend.. for now, here's one of my memorable ones.
Happiest view of All
After so many attempts of trying to get to Lukla, the climax and most happiest moments of all in this trip was seeing the runway at Lukla airport through the cockpit of our plane...
Lukla
Happiest view of All
After so many attempts of trying to get to Lukla, the climax and most happiest moments of all in this trip was seeing the runway at Lukla airport through the cockpit of our plane...
Lukla
wkcheah
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