Pokhara Travel Blogs

"Ooooouff!" Boy oh boy it's good to be resting m'weary limbs after all that trekking!  Time to let the muscles and blisters ease maybe... or maybe not!  Yep, foolhardily on my first full day back in chills-ville Pokhara the travel dynamo inside of me is still whirring at full pelt …

After a very tough time in my life, I decided to go to Nepal for a few weeks. The most amazing time I spend there was doing the Annapurna Sunctuary Trekking. Being apart from many luxuary, that I was used to, didn't feel like taking a step back. It felt like the start of a whole new beginning for m…

Trekking in the Annapurna region and teaching English in a mountain village near Pokhara were my main goals while travelling through Nepal in March/April of this year - I heart Nepal!! :)

So, I've finished the Annapurna Circuit today and am relazing in Pokhara.  It was an amazing experience and there are loads of stories and photos to share in due time.  But for now I've survived and am still mostly in one piece in health-wise.  Back to Kathmandu tomorrow (its a 200 k…

The guide book says the trek to Annapurna Base Camp can be done in 10 days, best enjoyed in 14, but I did it in 8.  It was at once one of the most rewarding and painful things I have ever done.  Apparently, when you go trekking in the Himalayas, there are not just some mountains to c…

Me. My backpack. A 1 way ticket. 3.5 months. No real plan. Malaysia, Nepal, India, Tibet, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Burma. Amazing. (Dates are all messed up, I'll sort this out later - and some actual blogging will eventually appear!)

Today I try to explore the other 2 lakes at Pokhara.  To reach these I need to take a local bus to Begnas Bazaar which turns out to be easier that I had expected, though the 15Km trip takes 45 minutes.  Begnas is a small town, a popular spot for Nepalese, there are hire boats on th…

  After trekking we went back to Kathmandu. The first thing was to eat some good food! Haha because in the moutain, we had only egg and bread. So need some more protein :D But nothing to do in Kathmandu so we moved again to Pokara, don't know either what to do there but we should leave…

Nepal. March 14th 1990. Lake Fewa, Pokara. We had to be up early again, by 6.30am, as we were to be having a great tour up into the mountains to meet Sherpa people and Tibetan refugees plus other great adventures, but more importantly to me we were going to see Yaks, those great big smelly beast…

Today, we encountered some rapids that were small enough to swim through. There was one rapid that everyone seemed to fall out of their rafts at. For a moment, the Kali Gandaki was littered with UWC students bobbing up and down in the water. Our guides, Brent and Gary, who were in kayaks, had a run…

Truly a step back in time. Amazed and inspired, Kathmandu is just alive with culture and history. Every cobblestone stepped on, conjures images of life long ago.And then the realization that it really hasnt changed that much.

Walking down the streets in Pokhara, my watch, which is quite big, attrackts the attention of people often. Nothing special when a local, working in a gem stone shop, asked if he could see it. He invited me in the shop, where we had a cup of tea. After a while, some other men came in, and somewhere…

Mixed emotions. T will get better after today. Not only is her back still bad, but she’s a little ill in the stomach as well. She even threw-up last night a few times. Super. The downside? Leaving the Annapurna… and I can’t deny the fact that leaving the Annapurna means we’ll be leavi…

We got up at 5:30 to drive to Sarankot to watch the sunrise come up over Fish Tail and the Anapurna mountains of the Himalaya range. I got lucky…usually this time of year it is hard to see the mountains in the morning due to mist, but it was a very clear day. At the point where the sun made its a…

I decided to stick around a little longer in Nepal and do the right thing, i.e. to hike up the Himalayas! The Anapurna range had looked so amazing I decided to get myself a guide and head back to Pokhara to do a hike up to ABC: the Anapurna Base Camp at roughly 4.5 km height.I checked out a few gui…