Trekking in Nepal is a must-do! Taking the local's advice about the condition of the track we decided against the Everest Base Camp route and headed to Pokhara instead towards the Annapurna range. Nine days, 4500m and a bucketload of sweat later we'd completed the climb to Annapurna Base Camp 28-seater Dakota, NAC‘s very first aircraft, has become an icon of Nepal‘s aviation history. In many parts of the Kingdom, the people‘s initial encounter with the modern world was the DC-3, long before the cars got here. The last of these planes flew into the sunset in 1973..