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Published: April 9th 2007
If you're in Nepal, you really want to feel that you've been to the top of a mountain. We never got to see the Himalayan Mountains the way they look in postcards -- snowcapped mountains with clear, blue skies -- because we were visiting at the wrong time of year and it was too cloudy. Still we did get to see the sun rise over the Annapurna range and the Pokhara valley from a hillside town above Pokhara called Sarangot. Sarangkot has a viewing station which looks over the Pokhara. Sarangkot has a viewing station which looks over the Pokhara valley on one side, and the entire Annapurna range on the other.
To get to Sarangot, we left our hotel at 5:30 a.m. and drove for quite a while. After parking, we made a steep climb up some stairs to the viewing platform. En route, we passed about a dozen or so vendors who had set up stalls selling jewelry, postcards, T-shirts, shawls, blankets, etc. Not having had any coffee, I was very happy to find that one vendor was making hot chai tea. (Getting good coffee in India and Nepal has really been a challenge.)
When we
reached the viewing platform, we encountered dozens of Japanese, European, and American peering through binoculars and posing for pictures. In about 20 minutes, we all got to see the sun rise high in the sky. I think this must have been about the fourth sunrise I've seen on this trip!
As we walked back down, I bought a red and yellow, woven shawl/blanket from a Nepali woman who told me she herself had made it, thinking it would make a nice gift for my sister. When we got to the place out bus had parked, wouldn't you know -- the bus wouldn't start. So we all got out and PUSHED! Fortunately, the brakes on the bus were in good condition, so we made it safely back down the mountain!
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sangavi
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It is so beautiful......................................................I like it very much........................................................and Iam surprise