Pokhara

We decided to leave something to discover in Kathmandu for the next time and took a 7 hours bus ride to Pokhara, the second biggest city in Nepal. We stay in tourist quarters with lots of cozy restaurants all by the lake. We found a very nice hotel where we have spent already a couple of days preparing for our trek - having some bicycle rides around the city, trekking to World Peace Pagoda and recovering from Tomek's third ?! food poisoning. Visiting a private hospital is a scary experience here - I cannot even think what the public must be like. We managed though to find a doctor trained in Lvov in Ukraine so Tomek entertained himself in a mix of Russian, Ukrainian and Polish (he loved Polish TV shown in Lvov).

We both agree that the hotel we found is the nicest so far during our trip - quiet, clean and cozy with 24 hours hot water (it is much colder up here so it is quite important factor). Electricity though is very scarce - we are having here more blackouts than both of us have ever seen in our entire lives...I think it cannot get much worse than this for a local population. Hopefully, the new agreement reached here between the quarreling parties and the government will improve the situation soon.

Today after arriving at 5.30am at the gate of a closed airport and waiting, then already at the airport until 10.30am for our flight to Jomson, to depart we learned that since three days not a single flight to that destination due to weather conditions has taken off. So we have new plans. We canceled the tickets and decided to start tomorrow with a 10-14 days Annapurna Sanctuary Trek to the Annapurna Base Camp. It might therefore take some time before we are back online. We leave you time to digest our pictures more thoroughly :)