POKHARA - NEPAL

I have to admit the transport in Nepal was far better than what I expected. The roads were far better than Laos or Indonesia and when I was told the journey to Pokhara would take 7 hours that's how look it took. The sight of smashed up cars 100s of meters below did worry me a bit!!!!


Looking out the window and seeing stunning 5000M + snow covered mountain peaks was just a normal thing in Nepal.


It was so foggy on the first day I seen little point in heading to the hills so I went to the Gurkha museum instead.


I hired a bike for the day which was a case of going uphill for as far as I could through loads of small villages until I was too tired then heading back down.



When the weather cleared I went on a full day (8 hour) walk round the lake. Going up the hill to the world peace pogoda looked similar to the woods back home with the exception of the women collecting firewood.


It took hours just to find the top of the hill.


The peace pagoda


It was a long way to the top...................


On the way back down I passed through lots of small farm areas.


As with Kathmandu the power was going off on a regular basis which made things a bit difficult at night. By that point I had got into "Nepal time" going bed at about 9:30pm...............