Took a tourist bus from Kathmandu to Pokhara, comfortable and air con with nice lunch stop, Dahl Bhat of course!! But still long and scary, narrow, badly made roads packed with crazy overloaded trucks & buses, took 7 hrs for 200 km, lots of touts at bus stop all wanting us to come 2 their place to stay, all yelling at the same time but we successfully managed to get a free taxi (free if you decide 2 stay) to a pretty good place, only nz$10 and clean with own bathroom, a bonus. free WiFi & electricity half the day! We were here 26 years ago, apart from the lake we cannot recognize anything! Quite upmarket for Nepal, touristy but quiet at mo. Food good. Have had water melon, lychees, mango and cucumber. Leave at 6am on another bus to start of the Annapurna circuit trek. Hopefully back b4 monsoon arrives. Just had to take this pic of my dinner, best in 6 weeks and only $2.50. In case your wondering I don't like the porridge...
You guys must be fading away and oh so fit (not that you weren't before you left!)
ReplyDeletePublic transport sounds roughed - nice to relax in luxury for a night though.xx Christine
Trev is that your meal, mind you could put away a whole container of ice cream yourself so I suppose / looks good though/hard to believe that they could get all that stuff up there/ all ok here / cheers / take care
ReplyDeletegreat reading!(i am embarrassed to say i need help getting in to read it) and yours too Luke am going to send Caven over-is there life with out a TV? raining and wintery here we are hoping for snow about 30cm at Turoa!so its bring your own at the mo. did the winter prune and a good book , its all happening here! lots of love.xxx and one x from fat psychotic Oliver we specialize in odd, non longevity cats.
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