Waterfall outside Lukla

Waterfall outside Phakding, originally uploaded by matthewharrup.

We started off from Lukla, a small unimportant village except its got the 2nd busiest airport in the country (the flight here saves a 12hour bus journey, and a 8 day walk. We took the flight).

The airport is very ingeneous. There's no flat land in the entire area, so they made the runway on a slope. It drops 60m - a 20 storey building- over about 150m in length, which makes sense as landing planes have that huge brake and taking off, well, think how fast a coin would hit the ground if dropped from 20 floors up.