We love Pokhara! Although it is quite touristy (not usually our vibe) we find it very tranquil. Must be all the water? This required us to take an all day bus on a road that has been markedly improved in the two years since we have travelled this way.
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| Some one even lent us their baby .... until James gave up his seat for the mum. |
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| View of the river along the way |
We booked into our favourite hotel just one road back from the lake.
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| View from our balcony by day ...... |
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| And by night |
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| View from a lakeside restaurant |
The pollution level was 15.3 times greater than the acceptable global level! It was even too hazy to see Fishtail Mountain on the bus up to town.
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| Hazy lake |
This did not deter the fun of the season. Not long after we arrived we celebrated Holi (colour) festival. Everyone was out on lakeside having so much fun. The idea is to throw coloured powder at each other. Lots of people wear white t-shirts, indicating that they don't mint getting sparyed. It was such a lovely day. Everyone got involved, old and young, local and tourists ....
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| James got tika'd by these girls |
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| Selling the colours |
We made friends with this gorgeous wee kitten at what became our favourite samosa and chia shop.
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| Sometimes she was captured in the display cabinet. We think to keep her safe as we were right on the main road. |
We made a couple of trips to the Pokhara Fishing Park, the owner of which we made friends with last time we were here.
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| James trading fishing stories with the guy at the fishing shop |
The fishing was fairly mediocre but we didn't mind at all as the setting is wonderfully peaceful. By far more riveting was watching the paragliders coming down just up the road.
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| At one point we counted no less than 12 of them in the sky at once |
We also enjoyed watching nature's Kites.
We were delighted to be surprised one day by one branch of our family calling in on their way back from the mountains. We took the opportunity to take a trip on the lake with the children.
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| In the taxi on the way to the lake |
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| Hmmm, huge hotel being built |
Another thing we noticed that has sprung up in the past two years is the proliferation of people hiring these blow up paddle boards which are use almost exclusively as kayaks. Quite a good business plan as the layout will be quite negligible. We declined to have a go.
Our favourite food experience was doing a Panipuri crawl along the lakeside. They're not very filling so we can usually manage a shared plate at three or four different stalls.
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| Stalls as far as the eye can see |
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| You also get a squirt bottle of spicy juice to pour into the little pods |
We stayed for a week and enjoyed every single moment of it.
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