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Pokhara Slideshow
Pokhara
Travel Blogs from Pokhara, Nepal
Over the top
So here we are in Thorung Phedi waiting for the big push tomorrow. Its a cold night and we spend it huddled round inadequate electric bar heaters and sipping hot lemon drinks. We are to get up at five in the morning, to make sure we make it down the ...
Night(mare) bus
... place, it reminds me a lot of Wanaka, only with a Nepali favour. I`m going to end my trip here in Nepal. I`m just waiting here in Pokhara till I can find a trekking buddy to walk the Annupurna circuit before I head back to sunny England. That is ...
Pokhara
Today we travelled to Pokhara town which is fantastic. It is more peaceful and less frantic than Kathmandu. There are rows upon rows of market stalls with the most beautiful colours of saris. We visited the Tibetan Refugee Camp. The Tibetan ...
Down and Out
... is raining, but I`m sure by tomorrow it will be super superb and nice. Didn`t see one Maoist. Shame. Day 18 Ghorepani(2750) to Pokhara(820) Got up today at 4.15 am. even before the early birds. This is because I wanted to watch the sun rise from ...
I travel. I hate my life disrupted by routine.
... line east to west through the middle and another north to south, and where they cross, bang in the middle of Nepal, is Pokhara. A place on every backpackers list. Suddenly we are in touristland, heavily populated by young and not so young westerners with ...
Back into the cool mountains
Well, as unplanned, our plans changed again. We were meant to come to Pokhara really just to kill time waiting for our Tibet visa. We felt safer getting back to Kathmandu with a day to spare before collecting the visas, but we love Pokhara so much we ...
Back from Trekking
... entry from blog 2002). This time it was the correct trail and we got to Beni at around sunset. The good food and accommodation of Pokhara beckoned over Beni and we took a taxi the two hours (it took nearly three) rather than stay there and get the next ...
Beautiful, peaceful place
... it’s going to be possible to join them. I’ve been back and forth to Pokhara around six times since I’ve been in Nepal, a couple of those times was to start off trekking with both the Annapurna treks starting from here. ...
Longest journey yet...
... , Janine and Lynne (3 kids from Canada who I hung out with for a week or so), and two blow outs later... I arrive in Pokhara, Nepal's second largest city thankfully in one piece. We got jeep from Darjeeling to Silguri which had a blow out coming down the ...
