The trip to Pokhara was filled with awesome sights. Pokhara is 5 hours north west of Kathmandu by local bus. All along the road, little towns are dotted everywhere with people just going about their everyday lives. Each town has several water taps along the road and these are busy with people collecting water for their homes (no running water in the houses) and people washing – hair, body and clothes washing, all soaped up. Beautiful rice fields are dotted everywhere and cattle and chickens wander at their leisure.
Pokhara is a sleepy town that is set around a large very beautiful lake. It is going into the wet summer season so many of the tourists have left. They mostly come in winter and trek into the snow covered mountains that surround us on all sides.
We will spend 5 nights here before heading back to Kathmandu. Every day starts out with the mountains covered in clouds and then the clouds lift as the day goes on but before long it is 3.30 pm and the sky opens up and we have about 1 hour of intense rain, lightening and thunder before the sun comes out again and there is pleasant weather for the evening.
Pokhara is a sleepy town that is set around a large very beautiful lake. It is going into the wet summer season so many of the tourists have left. They mostly come in winter and trek into the snow covered mountains that surround us on all sides.
We will spend 5 nights here before heading back to Kathmandu. Every day starts out with the mountains covered in clouds and then the clouds lift as the day goes on but before long it is 3.30 pm and the sky opens up and we have about 1 hour of intense rain, lightening and thunder before the sun comes out again and there is pleasant weather for the evening.
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