Thursday 26 July 2018

Off to Pokhara

This morning began abruptly at 6am as we needed to wake up to get the bus to Pokhara where we would begin our trek. We had breakfast, collected our bags and then met at reception. We'd been told that the hostel owner would take us to the bus station, and stupidly assumed that this meant that we would be driven. It came as a bit of a shock when we then started a 15 minute walk before 7am, though forunately it wasn't too hot.

We then had a 7 hour bus drive to Pokhara, complete with 3 stops, for the toilet, breakfast and lunch. The ride was okay though the roads out of Kathmandu are really awful; I seriously thought we were going to tip over onto one side, and this was even scarier as we began to drive around and up the mountains. Fortunately we made it in one piece, and got off the bus. We went outside the bus station to find a cheap taxi and one agreed, then as we neared the hostel said he wanted more money. We gave him what we'd agreed and got out there, not realising this meant we had a 10 minute uphill walk for the sake of saving about 50p.

After checking into our hostel and a quick shower we ventured out for some food. We found a very cute little family run place and had a late lunch, then walked down to the large lake. As it was the weekend a lot of locals were out with their families and I expect we featured in many of their photos. It was very pretty but soon began to rain and so we headed back to the main street after a while. Here we went to lots of shops to get snacks and breakfast for the trek, as we'd been told that they would cost a lot more in the mountains. We walked down the road further, there were lots of cool places including several vegan and raw food places, but we returned with our bargain snacks in tow.




We spent an hour or so doing some final washing and packing for the trek, and then headed out for some dinner. We ended up back at the lunch place (so keen)- but when a full meal and drink was about £2 who can resist?! We then headed back to the hostel ready for another early night.

Laura x

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