Pokhara Resort

Hello Everybody, Welcome to our journey! This idea was conceived from a love of the world crossed with a passion for the environment (and our commitment 2 reduce our carbon emissions). All in all a very good excuse to travel. The premise of this ...

... 's an in between, mix of rustic charm and some assemblage of professionalism.  The town's empty, and everyone's home.   Pokhara, I hear has 200,000 people, which is very hard to believe.  It must be quite spread out.  We ...

... the next morning).  We fled the next morning, feeling nauseous.  Now we're at the Castle Resort, a funky but endearing little place shaped like a castle.  Pokhara has been socked in for days, very unusual for November.  No Himalayan views yet.  But ...

... very much - up there.  Standing in the tower at the tippy top felt like being in an airplane. Rebecca's back in Pokhara with us.  She reports a good week in Kathmandu.  There's a new acupuncturist working alongside her at the clinic now, ...

... people dressed up as birds and even a yetti - needless to say they found Neil and danced with him! So now we're in Pokhara, in the western Himalaya, just getting ready for our 9 day trek up to the Annapurna base camp or as the trekkers round these parts ...

... fantastic room became the week-long base camp for our mission to relax after being incarcerated in Thamel. In Pokhara we discovered a 2km stretch of tourist restaurants, tourist guesthouses and tourist shops almost completely devoid of that essential- ...

Pokhara and onwards   After my trek I felt that I needed a bit of time to chill so I headed to Pokhara which is like a lake resort to the west of Kathmandu. When I arrived the sun was shining and I was thinking to my self- at last finally a holiday ...

... grinned. 5pm rolled around and we pulled over to a truck-stop for some dinner. Our" 3-4 hour" bus trip was still a little while from over it seemed. At about 7:30pm we rolled into Pokhara; seven and a half hours after we had boarded in Kathmandu. ...

... was flying with me.. and other people pay for parahawking, I got mine for free. I totally recommend paragliding when coming to Pokhara (Frontiers Paragliding, they are real fun those guys). The view over the lake was just so beautiful I didn’t even ...

... lodge gardens only leaving for a day's white water rafting and the odd meal. We only based ourselves in Pokhara (avoiding the highly polluted Kathmandu and other "Indian style" towns) so my views may be obscured by those rose ...

... fronts so you get the smell and sound of the rain.  It's lovely.  Diary Entry: Last day in Pokhara.  Currently sitting in front counches at Maya Pub overlooking street with Fleetwood Mac playing in background.  Pokhara seems to ...

And now we rest. Pokhara has a resort town feel to it, emphasized by our time in the mountains and the obvious population of tourists (casual, perky and hippy alike).  We stayed in the Lakeside area along with our foreign brethren running into two ...

... our trek on the 13th May, tired and aching, the original plan was to head straight to Kathmandu, but we decided as Pokhara was such a tranquil and scenic place we stick around to see in Mela's Birthday on the 15th. The advantage to Pokhara being ...

The 13th Pokhara Street Festival begins today. Already countless banners for bars, Coke and Carlsberg stretch across the street, obscuring views of the mountains. Restaurants spread out onto the road. Stalls are erected on every spare patch of ground. ...

This is my 3rd day after the trek, in Pokhara. I've found that I can't make my flight to Bangkok earlier, so I'm "stuck" here until the 25th (a week and half). What can you do here? Basically this is a resort city: * Good restaurants (excellent ...

I have arrived at the capital of Nepal with a couple of things in my mind for what i still wanted to do- one of those was to do the a bungee jump and the other was to have a go at rafting- these activities are not in Kathmandu but close - so i relaxed ...

... stay in 'Mums Garden Resort' it is about the price of one of us getting a bed in a dingy Dublin Hostel. Brilliant. So, Pokhara genuinely is a bit of heaven on eath. Granted, this place is over run with Trekking tourism and hippies who want to relax in ...