Friday, January 23, 2015

Nepal Post 1 (Travel)

I figured I would try to go through a bit of what we did and saw in Nepal. It will probably be a pretty lengthy few posts but I'll try to get through it all pretty quickly

Travel

We began our Journey on October 7th 2014 at DIA. The part of the group that was traveling together all met up before we went through security. Not the best picture but here is our wonderful group!
Our first leg of the flight was from Denver, CO to Newark, NJ. It was a fairly short flight in between lunch and dinner, and being the first leg we were all very excited to be off on our Journey together.

This is a view from the plane as we were flying into Newark. You can't see it unless you zoom the picture but the statue of liberty is right in front of the wing!

We had dinner in Newark as we waited for the long flight to begin. 14 Hours from Newark, NJ to New Dehli, India. Boarding the plane was a little scary because I had no Idea what I was in for with a 14 hour flight! It wasn't too bad, Honestly. Sleeping was fairly easy on the way there, There was enough room to get up and walk around the plane, and the kids sitting around was were all fairly quiet. Much different than our flight back from Germany!

This is a view on descent into New Dehli, India. I was in awe as I saw the nighttime views. Knowing we were in another country and wondering how things would be. We landed at 9pm-ish and had to spend the rest of the night in the airport until our flight to Kathmandu the next morning. The first two-ish hours were spent in customs making sure everything was in order with our passports and our bags. After that we went through security checkpoint to make it into the main terminal. Thankfully the airport was very posh. We were able to get food and do some shopping (they even had a Haggen Daas Ice cream place!) and all seemed well. After a couple more hours we went to the terminal to try to sleep and/or wait for the flight. Kevin and I crashed on the floor behind a row of chairs for about an hour or so....couldn't handle any more than that as the floor was not very comfy! FINALLY the next morning we took our flight to Kathmandu, eager for our adventures to start. After a bumpy landing we made it to the foreign terminal and were able to go through customs, get our visas, exchange money, and get the heck out of airports (at least for a day!).
I'll stop there for this entry and talk about our day in Kathmandu in the next.
TTFN

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