At the moment we are spending 5 days in Pokhara, the centre of the lake district of Nepal. We have come here to chill after the first 2 weeks of travel. Pokhara is a trekking mecca. People come here from around the world to go trekking in the mountain. I say from around the world but it feels like they are all from Israel. I have not seen so many Israeli in one place since last I was on Dizzengofe Street in Tel Aviv.
We have been staying in the Banana Garden Lodge, chosen both for its name and the description of a well run and basic facility. But what a find. You can see from the photos what a great view and surrounding to this lodge. You possibly can still see some Banana trees. It reminded me of my time spent on a Kibbutz at the end of the 80s. All for 1.50€/night the room.
Rather than laze around – most people thought we came to Trek. We had to explain to everybody that we just came to chill – we decided to go for a long walk (Trekking to some people) to the Stupa on a hill overlooking the lake. The stupa is the peace pagoda. We headed off from our Lodge and 2 hrs later via breakfast we arrived at the top of the hill and then 2 hrs to get back. I had to say that I am not as fit as I wish to be. As usual we decided to make our own way up. Kia’s internal compass was working superbly and mine was not.
I think I need to recap our travels from Delhi to Kathmandu. The longer I leave it the less I will have time to type….
2 comments:
Hey Dan!!! Monica called me on sunday and told me you've chatted and that you were well...I was happy to hear it, because beg of last week I had checked your blog and there was no entry, and was hoping everything was going well. Kia is beautiful on the pictures, you look great too. take care and enjoy your travel. the blig is great. bisous. Anaï
Sounds FABULOUS... you could make TV ads for revitalising shower-gel in a location like that... look out for the Zohan!
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