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Flying Dragon is a private company (Chinese) that operates out of Nepagunj to the mountain airports in Western Nepal. They are using 2nd hand Chinese aircraft that the previous government authorities in Nepal have been banning from Nepal. Under the current government of lax rules and high bribes the airline now uses these dragonflies...
Do note that their safety standards are not up to pair with other aircrafts, even if they look nice from the outside. Use Dornier, Saab or Twin Otter aircrafts if you have a choice here in the cowboyland far west...
Updated Jan 17, 2007
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On the trail between Dharapuri and Kermi is a place called Chya Chhahara - 3 waterfalls. When you have climbed the section cut into the mountain and laid with stone steps (looks precarious), you turn a corner and arrive to a land slide section where the trail is constantly in repair. It is fairly dangerous to cross under adverse conditions. There is an alternative trail going around this whole section. Follow local advice, but do not expect this place to be entirely safe. However, cows, donkeys, horses, school children and everybody else passes it, so chance is that you will be fine, too!
Updated Jan 11, 2007
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You need to pay a fee to go trekking in Humla. Normally this is done by the trekking agency and calculated into the price you pay them. These days the control on who moves where is even more restricted because of the insurgency.
Limi Valley is like Mustang and is subject to a several-hundered dollar fee per trekker.
These days maoists "collect" their revolutionary tax at gunpoint at either upper Humla stronghold or by a roving band of them on the trail, and so you are paying double...
Written May 20, 2006
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SMK, yes, even this airport has a code - just like LAX or JFK or FRA. But slightly less fashionable...
It is scary to land and take off from here, so faint-hearted people should perhaps abstain from this exercise of the nervous system. You may wish to walk in for 10-12 days instead?
The runway is the cricket cum parade field in town, cattle and goats graze the runway edges. It's dirt field, with some drainages cuting across, giving some extra jolts. The runway is very short, so you sort of hang in your seat belt as the plane lands. As you depart you will notice the runway seems a bit short, but as the ground naturally falls away down to Karnali River a 1000 meters below, you will be airborne faster than for comfort. All this said, there hasn't been so many accidents. Pilots simply do not fly here when cloud/precipitation/ wind conditions are anywhere near troublesome for a safe passage over the high southren pass into upper Humla and landing in Simkot. You do what you got to do, no?
Written Feb 4, 2006
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The reason is that passengers are by and large considered a nuisance by airlines going to Simkot, as there is more money to be made on cargo flights with paid price per kg and not per head. Flights may be cancelled because there may not be sufficient passengers but plenty of cargo. They plane may go, but without you. You need to bite onto the respective airlines' station managers at Nepalganj or Surkhet and hold on until you know there will be a flight with you on it. The helicopter flights are incidental, but you may catch a ride for the going rate for fixed-wing aircraft. The cargo charters may also take you on board if space. The most efficient - or least inefficient - way is to book a through ticket on Yeti Airlines from Kathmandu via Nepalgunj to Simikot (SMK). Tyen they cannot tell you they don't have tickets for sale in Nepalgunj.
Updated Feb 4, 2006
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Funny tip title?The reason is that passengers are by and large considered a nuisance by airlines going to Simkot, as there is more money to be made on cargo...
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Q: Can you suggest a good map on the Simikot / Limi area ? we would like to trek there in oct/ nov Thank you -Dieter
A: The best place to buy your maps is in Thamel once you arrive there as, there is a Good selection but don’t expect them to be completely accurate !! However all the...
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