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Pokhara Slideshow
Pokhara
Travel Blogs from Pokhara, Nepal
Day 7: Cho La Pass......
Up at 5. Pack, breakfast at 6. Go look for my climber/free guide friend. He's fooked off already the..... Head off on my own at 7. I'll show em. It's an easy walk following the trail up 200m. At 5000m it gets a lil harder. Snow appears and it's ...
Noch keine Berge
Arughat selber ist nicht unbedingt dass was man sich unter einem schoenen nepalesischen Bergdorf vorstellt, sondern ist eher eine kleines staubiges Dorf das in etwas den Charme von Castrop-Rauxel versprueht. Die erste Etappe des Manaslu-Circuit ist ...
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Just a quick post to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! We are currently in Pokhara, Nepal, about 8 hours west of Kathmandu, and thankfully far enough away from the craziness! We are treating ourselves to some accommodation by the water (lake), and we ...
Pokhara
... 500 more on the way up. We don't know how the Nepalese locals do it as often as they do. Our final days spent in Pokhara were spent chilling out and Shaun nearly dyeing going for a couple of mountain bike rides with the locals. Needless to say it was ...
Gokyo Ri (made a mess out of me...)
... . that's the tale of our gokyo trek. i'd do it again, if only to conquer gokyo ri. and i would recommend trekking in nepal to virtually anyone. i saw children walking with their parents, geriatrics and all manner of trekker. i'm not sure i'd want to go in ...
Day 8: At Chame
Got up 6:30am today and not feeling so well. We planned to remain at Chame the whole day to take rest and as well to see how the weather turns out. Morning was not so good for me - had quite a few runs to the loo and my diarrehea got worse. Luckily there ...
Nepal Trek - the prose and the photos!
... a book, "A Spell in Nepal" by Dervla Murphy, the Irish travel writer, about the seven months she spent in Nepal, in Pokhara, working in a Tibetan refugee camp. Pokhara is where we started and stopped our trek. She tried to described ...
Pokhara ... and Tranquility
... the beauty of the moment and surroundings when the sun lifted and shimmered across the lake after the rain..... Awesome. Pokhara is quite a large sprawling place , the main tourist areas restaurants and hotels are around the Lake, known as ...
Nepal vibration : )
... campamento de refugiados tibetanos, mucha gente muy amable. Aqui fabrican alfombras y demas artesanias. Hay cuatro campos de refugiados en Pokhara, que se sustentan mayormente con estos proyectos tipo cooperativa. La mayoria llego a Nepal en el '59 con la ...
Day 10
Starting Altitude: 2874m Finishing Altitude: 2595 Max Altitude reached: 3200m Hours trekked: 10 4.30 start today (that's 4.30 AM - WTF??), for a trek up to Poon Hill (or Pain Hill as I like to call it) to watch the sunrise. So another 90 mins vertical ...
Day 11
Starting Altitude: 2595m Finishing Altitude: 2170m Hours trekked: 5.5 Today was the 'easy' day - a mere 5 and a half hours trekking. I'm starting to get my head around this trekking lark - let me introduce you to a few concepts. "Quite steep downhill" = ...
Time Travel is Possible
Damian: Day 3 Started the day with a strenous climb which wasn't to be our last. Donkeys have right of way on the trail - which is covered in manure and which in turn is covered in flies. We spent most of the day walking through an immense ...
Annapurna Trek
The next day our trekking started. Again we hopped into a little bus and were all transported to Pokhara, the second biggest city of Nepal. On board, the trekking crew of 6 people including Tilman and me, Tika, Kuber the co-guide and 3 carriers that were ...
First day of trekking
... . So a climb from around 820mtr in Pokara to 1540mtr in Tikhedunga.. This was an awesome walk, the first time in the Nepal country side. Our guide Sabin already arranged our trekking permits, so we could easily start the trekking.. Off we went, with the ...
Discovering The Real Nepal
... a rather quick 5-day journey, I knew it would be epic in experience and cultural discovery. Getting there (Jan 17th, 2007) Leaving Pokhara by 5:30am in a mini-van on the main HWY to Kathmandu, we reached the small town of Galchi by mid-morning. ...
Ups and Downs in Annapurna
... local bus could take us back down the mountain instead of walking, just as well because the heavens opened as we returned to Pokhara. Full of bravado, we decided to go and buy trekking permits and a map for the Annapurna Sanctuary, surrounded by some of ...
Poonhill trek - Poonhill = hemmetin paljo portaita
... kanssa. ;) Mitaan jarisyttavaa ei kuitenkaan tapahtunu ja pian kello oliki taas yheksan ja saatto hyvilla mielin siirtya nukkuun. Nepal on tosiaan early to bed - country! :D Vipa vaelluspaiva valkeni ihan yhta harmaana kuin muutkin. Lahdettiin puoli ...
Nepal 2004
... 15, 2004 The Laligurans Women Skill Development Centre (LWSDC) is a non-profit, non-government organization located in Pokhara, Nepal. LWSDC strives to create opportunities for women who do not have income and are struggling to survive. ...
Volunteering in Nangi Village
... to feel like you're developing relationships with the citizens. We chose Himanchal because it sounded like an awesome location. From Pokhara take a 5hr bus ride (or 3hr taxi) then it's a 6 hour hike up into the Himalayan hills. A place ...
conquering Mount Everest (base camp!)
Hello everyone. Sorry it's been so long since our last entry! We're now in Pokhara, Nepal, staying with a South Korean friend - Wonbeen (who we met in the reggae bar in Kathmandu!) and his family. Pokhara is the most beautiful place I've been ...
Pokhara
... understood bit of what he was saying. We gave him some money for food. In the evening we met this local who explained what Pokhara used to look like before all the tourists started to come. It was interesting. I think we would defiantly go back to Pokhara ...
Pokhara
Pokhara is Nepal's second city but its a lot more chilled out than Kathmandu. We've come here on the way to the Annapurnna circuit trek. Our time in Pokhara has been mostly spent chilling out and buying last minute supplies for the trek, but we also ...
Day 3 of trekking
... I'm a tourist! I asked him if he knew the name of the band I'd seen in Thamel since I'd seen the singer again in Pokhara and thought they may be famous. He thought they were called Axe band and are pretty big. Everyone was interested to ...
White Water Rafting & Inexcusable Gluttony ;)
... gliding across the still water, the many types of birds flying above them. Lonely fisherman casting their hand made bamboo rods. I absolutely love Pokhara. At night I met the rafting team, Anka, Kevin, Ian and John at the bar to see Anka and Kevin off to ...
Treking day 1
... more than content to sit and stare. Feel like a celebrity. All be it a tired one. Was up early today. Rode the bus to Pokhara central for supplies and then jumped on another to get lunch and a connection. One dahl baht later and we are sat on top of ...
Eternal Ramblings ofa Spot Filled mind
Why is it illigal to kill a cow in Nepal, yet I can still get steak on the menu? Dal Bhat (lentil and veg curry) is yummie, especially when it's all you can eat for 80p I have a beard, it itches, I should buy a ...
Day 10: Pisang to Manang
... . Last one hour of walk to reach Humde from this high point is pretty flat. There is an airport at Humde with flights to pokhara during tourist season - it was closed for now. Around 10:45 we arrived at Humde. We had our lunch (cabbage/potato curry and ...
Holi - Festival of Colours
Having been in the mountains for all of the ABC trek and the Mera Peak expedition (coming), I'm so far behind on the blog that I've decided to start writing up my existing travels (I'm in India at the moment) and catch up on the Mera Peak expedition when ...