We left Kathmandu by bus and went to Pokhara where we spent almost a week. Had some nice time there, cycling, walking, relaxing … enjoying the view of the Anapurna mountains, great view from the lake when the weather is clear. We had a big storm one night, which messed up our plans for the next day as we had planned on getting up early and reaching Sarangkot before the sun rise .. but the rain over the night decided otherwise.
However, after almost a week there, we decided to leave for a few (3) days rafting on the Kali Gandaki river, which has class 3 and 4 rapids, pretty fun. So in the evening we were sleeping out in tents on the river side, fire camps, nice food, beautiful clear nights, could see loads of stars up in the sky, we had quite a nice time. When the rafting was over, instead of returning to Pokhara with the rest of the rafting group, we went down to Tansen, or up i should say, its a nice small town on top of a hill, where we just wanted to spend a day to get over the rafting, in peace, the streets are too narrow for cars and trucks to go through :) Unfortunately the area is under military survey, with all the terrorist going around, so the city shuts down at 9pm, quite wierd. Not even mentionning all the military controls we are getting on the roads.
We are now in the Terai, in Sauraha exactly, going to visit some of the national park tomorrow, and hopefully see some of the wildlife there :)
We should be heading back towards Kathmandu valley in a couple days, so we can get a few more nice walks done in that area.
More news and some photos then, the internet is pretty slow over the country.
Tony.
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