It’s been a couple of weeks since I got back from my trek and I’m still here.
Not really done much except playing chess and drinking.
But why go anywhere when you can get an all you can eat meal like this for less than £1.50
And have a balcony like this to enjoy on my £3.50 per night room
There has been a thunder storm almost every afternoon, but it has made for some amazing sunsets.
Went sailing on the lake one day and got caught out in a sudden storm. We managed to beach the boat and get the sails down just in time. Two other boats on the lake capsized. Was quite exciting.
I also have been to Davi’s falls. A very odd water falls where the river goes from ground level straight down through successive holes it has dug. Its done is such a small space you can’t even see the bottom. Although there is also a cave with a temple in that comes out bottom of the hole the falls have dug deep under ground. All pretty cool.
Two days ago 3 of us hired bikes and went on a mission to get to Panchase which is only about 10km from here as the crow flies.
We’d heard rumors that there was now a road that was passable on bikes. The problem was no one seemed to know where it was. We headed off on one guys advice and after an hour got to a dead end in a village. There we met a chap who was the English teacher at the local school. He told us that we could hike for about 5 hours from there or come all the way back through pokhara and out the other side to get there by bike. We stopped for a chai with him and his mother, tea grown them selves with there own buffalo milk two. twas really nice.
So off we headed back to Pokhara, out the other side the road got progressively worse, we forded a few rivers and then started going up on a loose stone and sand track. It was tricky to say the least. Luis, who has ridden dirt bikes his whole life, was amazed I managed to get up some bits. I was a bit slower than the other two guys so I kept going when they stopped for a smoke. I was in the village before panchase and within sight of it when I got a call from the other guys saying Luis bike had sprung a fuel leak. So I turned around and started heading down again. At this point it started to rain. Now this is where my biking inexperience showed, I was on a steep down, tight, gravely bend doing only about 5km/h and I used the front not rear brake and found my self on the ground a little bit broken, as was the bike. Luckily it was just a few scrapes so I carried on and caught the others up. (Luis had fixed his leak with a stone).
By now we were in a real thunder storm, it even hailed for a bit so the rest of the ride back wasn’t so nice, we barely dared go above 20km/h even when we found some tarmac.
To add a final piece of drama to the day Robbie’s brakes failed on a bend above a cliff. His only option was to bin it and luckily managed not to go over the edge, He’s hired his bike for 6 months and it really is a bit ropey.
In two days time I finally leave here and go to chitwan national park. Seeing as I am now even more scared of Nepal
Catch you on the flip side
-Dan
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