Planes, trains and automobiles and tuk-tuks, rickshaws, boats and our own two feet...
November 14th 2006 Leaving Nepal
After completing the trek and relaxing in Pokhara for a day or two we decided we had better leave Nepal before our visas ran out. We boarded a bus to Sunauli (on the border with India). We bid farewell to the Himalayas and we were treated to one last glimpse of the snow capped mountains from the bus station.
The 7-hour coach journey could have been worse. Though Pet
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