It has come everyone. The moment of absolute satisfaction has come at last, after 11 hard days of trekking up and down a steep, hard mountain that has drained me of 94% of my energy(although it was an interesting experience). Yes, I am talking about finally leaving the entire mountain and going back to the comforts of modern civilization😅🙏💖👍✊👏👏! So basically today was waiting for a flight down Lukla and going back to the Dalai la hotel for the rest of today(*SPOILER*today was several hours longer than it needed to be because of the weather and slow service). It sounds like it was cake, but it was far from the case(until the very end, obviously) as I will tell you about how a simple walk in the park turned into rolling down a rocky hill being chased by mad dogs and angry civilians(like it? I just invited that phrase!). Today started off by me miserably waking up at 5:30 IN THE MORNING!!!! Bit dramatic, but emphasises my point on how it was so uncomfortable to wake up and then get dressed. So then we walked to the airport for only a short distance and then waited to get on the plane and leave! And waited. And waited. And waited😐… umm what is going on? We looked outside the airport and discovered that clouds had surrounded the airport and this prevented planes from navigating their way here!!!! Oh no!!! We couldn’t escape but we did not lose hope so we waited some more, to no avail. We called Ganesh and asked him what was going on when we discovered that the planes couldn’t get here due to the clouds blocking the view. They didn’t have GPS, so the only source of navigation was sight. Also, the clouds weren’t moving any time soon so we were stuck in Pull a for the day. WAIT!!!!! There’s a happy ending to this story! We EITHER had to stay in Lukla or pay a large amount for a helicopter down the mountain. It was tough and we even got a room, but we chose the helicopter route down and went to the station. Once we got there, we were there for some hours waiting for a flight and three things happened in this order: A helicopter came, it landed and sprayed gravel everywhere, and then it left and sprayed gravel everywhere. This occurred for hours and I was about to give up when our helicopter finally arrived!!! We got on it with one other passenger and took off to Kathmandu!!! We got there and then we drove to the Dalai La where we had a refreshing shower and dinner. I just can’t believe it’s all over for the last time… for now.
Inside the helicopter!
In the words of Frodo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, “It’s over. It’s done” .