Flight to Lukla

Left for airport at 5:00 am, on the small aging airplane the nicely uniformed flight attendant brought bottled water for the pilot and offered ginger honey candy and cotton for the ears of passengers. The plane flew very low through mountains and landed, blam into the very short runway which angled up about 30 degrees, in Lukla, about 9000 feet. We waited around the airport for a few hours, getting the porters set up, then started walking. There are no cars here.