http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Nepal , Pokhara en-us Mon, 07 Dec 09 07:25:51 +0000 Mon, 07 Dec 09 07:25:51 +0000 Our trip to Pokhara Nepal's second city began bright and early at the domestic flight terminal of Kathmandu Airport. It was the domain of smaller turboprop aircraft owned by private airlines with names such as Sita Air Agni Airlines Buddha Air and the gloriouslynamed Yeti Airlines. Our flight was with Buddha Air and as we sat in the tiny departure lounge we came across The Family. The Fami http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-458349.html Ceremonies on the ghats in a very hot afternoon. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-457302.html Leaving Kathmandu to reach Pokhora and the Annapurnas. Got an uggly deception about the travel agency that booked my Hotel and treks. I Damn that Gurkha Encounters operating at the Kathmandu Guest House. I had to change Hotel and everything. Problem could not budget same activities because I had to wait to go back to Kathmandu to get a refund. They blowed up my time in Pokhora for good withou http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-457130.html Arriving in Nepal from India was a turning point of my trip. Despite crossing the border on foot in the dark and spending the night in a mosquitoplagued dorm next to a snoring Spaniard who was an entertaining guitar player mind the bus ride from Belahiya to Pokhara was filled with amazing views pretty villages and smiling locals. The sun was shining the mountains were in sight and I was fina http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-455771.html PokharaOur trip to this city west of Kathmandu started when we surprisingly met the American couple we had befriended previously on the rafting trip in the street outside our hotel the night before we were going to leave. They were also considering visiting the place so we agreed to meet up the next morning at 8am to get a tourist bus no trains in Nepal nicer to travel with friends. However 8a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-455509.html I arrived in Nepal with a feeling of numb detachment. The sights smells and salesmen of Kathmandu didn't move me as I had expected they would and the rush of excitement that makes you sharply inhale that tingling feeling of energy that I remembered from previous traveling experiences was missing. Embarking on a year long journey has proved very different to setting off for a few months. Leaving http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-452162.html It started like most good ideas over a beer. We'd met a couple of ragtag randomers in Agra who were also on their way to Nepal. Bike touring came up in conversation one of us had done it before it was perfect Rock n roll rev it up let's ride.We trekked with these oddballs see previous entry and then our collective focus turned to the upcoming petrolfest. The first and most obvious problem http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-447979.html Itrsquos pretty strange because in Nepal they do book swapping. You hand in a book and you get some credit to buy another book at the shop. You still have to pay a bit of money for a book but itrsquos not too much. Itrsquos hard to hand over a book that Irsquove just read and really liked but I get to read more books We just did a really big trek up in the Himalayas. Annapurna Base Camp http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-447772.html Iba kratky prispevok pred zajtrajsim odletom do Manangu na dalsi trek.Sme v Pokhare a dnesny relax day v tomto meste kde NIC nie je okrem turistov najkrajsie vykresli fotka Nahananie Misa. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-444417.html Seems odd that this is only my 3rd blog and will be one of the last... time in Nepal is already nearing it's end with one week to go I'm swinging from feeling like 'time has flown by' and the feeling like I have been here 3 months rather than 3 weeks and that having Anna by my side was the way I was born But what a couple of weeks it has been.... ups and downs galore I left you at the Chitwan http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-444010.html Ok lets talk about Pokhara... Pokhara is the second biggest town of Nepal but it actually looks like a very big village. Most of the tourists staying in area neighborhood named Lake Side which is as the name suggests located on the Fewas lake side. The lake is quite and beautiful but surprisingly there is no promenade and the buildings of main street blocking the view to the lake. For tourist http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-443746.html Sohellip I am Pokhara now and there are a lot to be said about it but first i have to pay my Langtang debt Day 1 12 hours trip on a local bus to Syabrubesi the starting point of the trek.Day 2 Endless climbing to a small village named Changtang mostly known as Lama Hotel. The scenery is mostly green tropical forest and a river we a following up. Day 3 Not so long but steeply climb to http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-442609.html We left Bandipur for Pokhara by a local bus. The driver was totally crazy he drove far too fast around the bends and there were many and we were getting concerned for our safety when the bus stopped and nearly everybody got off and went onto other buses. The only people left were us we were unsure whether the bus terminated there though it was supposed to go to Pokhara or whether everybody http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-442293.html Sarah Erin Candy and I had rented a car to drive us the 160km to Pokhara and so at 6.30am in order to avoid the worst of peak hour traffic we piled in and took off. At about 10kph. The main westbound road out of Kathmandu is about the same as the eastern one that we had taken in two days before. Within the city limits it is a dirt road pocked with more crater sized holes than I have seen any http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-440141.html Next chapter in the ongoing saga of Vinny Dog's Epic TrekI was going paragliding.......so here goes........The guy told me the rules and how to get off the groud.....he said it was easy just run off the side of the cliff we were on. Sounds ok to me what you think No issues taking off or during the amazing 1 hour flight. As we were flying there were too many people around also paragliding. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-440080.html Arvon lukijammepahoittelemme venahtanytta taukoa blogikirjoittelussa. Olemme tehneet ahkeraa jalkatyota jotta teilla olisi kiinnostavampaa luettavaa. Alla lyhyt tiivistelma reppureissailun kilpakentilla sitten viime kuuleman tapahtuneesta.Mies vastaan apinaRishikesh IntiaPolttavan Intian auringon alla kaydyn vapaaottelun ennakkoasetelmat olivat kolossaaliset ja kutkuttavat. Miten ihminen itse http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-437078.html Tashi Deleng Ja die letzten zwei Tage verliefen etwas nass ich hab selten erlebt dass es so eine riesige Menge Wasser auf einmal runterhaun kann.Achja erstmal zum Setting Ich wohne im Exil Tibeterdorf Tashiling das etwa 700 Einwohner hat und dazu wahrscheinlich noch 50 Kuehe und anderes Getier. Meine Gasteltern haben fuenf Kinder und ausserdem wohnt noch drei Schweizerinnen hier die auch un http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-429162.html Pokhara beautiful lake some swimming hiking etc.Lumbini birthplace of buddha. Buddhist temples from around the world. Hot hot hot http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-426856.html Friday 7th AugustI had originally thought I would probably travel back to Kathmandu on the Sunday but with the school holidays giving me an extra day I booked a bus ticket for Saturday and allowed myself the Friday for a final full day in Pokhara. I wanted to go into the main town centre again to browse atround the Old Bazar area and also post a couple of English books to those kids I met in Kasti http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-426746.html This will be my last entry from Pokhara On Friday I am intending to have a last visit to Pokhara town centre and to do some shopping for stuff to take home. I have booked my bus ticket back to Kathmandu for 700am Saturday so that will hopefully give me 2 full days to have a better look around Kathmandu before flying home on Tuesday. I say hopefully because there has been so much rain recently http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Nepal/Pokhara/blog-426092.html