Green Park Hotel Pokhara

... takes 7,5 hours with several stops on the road. Sharp turnings and broken roads make our journey an not-so-easy one. Pokhara is just like a nice green county, less people live here and the houses are usually quite big and nice-looking. I think it is more ...

... had that paraded up and down the aisle sqwacking in celebration of a safe crossing. Bonkers. Arrived 8hrs later in Pokhara to the usual madness of taxi and hotel touts. Got in one taxi and was joinded by 2 hotel touts. Got out. Got in another ...

... he’d rather go straight to Chitwan National Park to keep the adventure going.  But, once we got to Pokhara and arrived at our very nice hotel with very clean rooms with views of the lake, his mood changed.  He admitted that some rest ...

... 1:30pm, and we were stocked up on oranges, noodles and even a little Toblerone chocolate bar. After leaving Pokhara we drove through the lush green valleys past little villages, following a river. Simon sat at the window and got really good at ...

... would not be delayed at all, and would meet our new guide first thing in the morning. To the manager at Green Tara Hotel in Pokhara, thank you very much. To Blue Mountain Travels in Kathmandu, you were a disappointment and we will not be recommending you ...

... in the morning extremely hungry, without any money. We ran to the cashpoint and then into the cafe next door for breakfast. Pokhara appeared to be similar to Magaluf, only there were no sunkissed 18 year olds drinking Malibu and Pineapple, just North Face ...

... had to move on from Chitwan, but it was only to other beautiful places. We headed for Pokhara, a small hippy town set on a beautiful lake amidst deep green mountains with snow-capped huge Himalayan mountains as a backdrop. Cant get past how beautiful the ...

... - this is what we came for! The pictures just don't do it justice. When we arrived at the hotel, we were in heaven. A beautiful setting; so green and so colourful with perfectly manicured flower-beds. We freshened up and then met for lunch and beers ...

... a beautiful sight to finally be out of the city and in the fresh air; the river meandered through a landscape of rolling green hills and tropical foliage.  We spotted several orange & green lizards sunning themselves on the rocks of the trail, ...

... get a flight from there, we were ready to go when we discovered there were buses leaving from another town,  Mugling to Pokhara but Mugling was two hours away and there were no seats left on the bus heading in that direction.  Next thing i ...

... tiger, it also has 4 deer & 2 monkey species, gaurs, marsh-mugger & gharial crocs, striped hyenas, kingfishers, green parakeets & blue-tailed bee-eaters.  During my time there I went to the government-funded elephant centre (used for ...

... other side. No small feat for one small girl. So...twelve hours later I arrived in Pokhara. The rest of the ride was absoluletly breathtaking. The green mountains, overflowing rivers, local village life. It was amazing. Now I'm in Pokhara. ...

... that we had had the most rewarding and thrilling day, seeing rare and wonderful sights. The next morning we set off to Pokhara, and another surprisingly short bus journey later, we arrived. Pokhara is situated by a river in a steep valley surrounded ...

We arrived at the bus park to be greeted by a number of hotel touts all wanting us to go with them to their hotel. I was pleasantly surprised though to find that one polite refusal to go with them and they walked off. Not at all like Indian hotel touts ...

... questions. That afternoon Penny and I hired an Indian made Bajaj brand motorbike. We decided to do a little exploring outside of Pokhara, and visit the Tibeten Refugee settlement where we’d heard you could watch the daily chanting of the monks in ...

... came into being when a Japanese man who had witnessed Hiroshima wanted to spread the word of peace by building a hundred peace pagodas. Pokhara's is the 71st and almost failed to get built as a year after the foundation stone was laid all that had been ...

... to Poon Hill to enjoy the sunrise on the Annapurna range before going back to Pokhara . We went to Pokhara but after 20 minutes someone from our last hotel chased us to tell us that another guide (it is getting complicated I know...) had Dale's camera ...

... available in Nepal and I called home to get some kind of clearance and instructions from a trusted pharmacist... sorted! I strolled around Pokhara a little bit in the evening and I really started to like the place.  Pokhara actually has footpaths and ...

... and they had a great game going. While the children were at school we would often have some free time to explore our surroundings. Pokhara is a beautiful and relaxed town, nestled around a large lake at the base of the Annapurna Mountains. It is a site ...

... along the way we would see several herdsmen trek from miles and days with their huge herds of mountain goats only to bring them to Pokhara to sell and sacrifice them.     The trek today was one of the easier ones and it took us approx. 4 ...