Nepal Day 16 (Journey to Pokhara)

Din get a chance to blog till now.. I took 2 days off to go to Pokhara, a lake city 200km to the west of Kathmandu.. Promised to have clearer air, cleaner environment and if we're lucky, might getto see the mountains!!...

Took the bus instead of flight, bcos its damn cheap la.. 350 rupees, about 3pds.. plus get to see 'view' erm..

The bus was supposed to take us 7 hours, departing at 7am... but...

The view along the way wasn't great also la.. whole Kathmandu so hazy.. out of Kathmandu still hazy..

Just 3o mins out of Kathmandu, we were goin down hill, down n down when we spotted this:

p/s: picture was not great cos of the haze..

Ou ou.. not sure if its a good decision to take the bus.. After that, the traffic jam started...for dont know what reason..for very very very long.. ppl start to climb out of the bus, walk around, get into other ppl's buses, etc..

We ofcourse join the crowd.. took some pictures too..

After 10 hours, we finally reached Pokhara.. n 1 hour b4 that, we finally gave up hope that the air is suddenly gona turn to clean air...

As soon as we arrived, we were surrounded by ppl trying to offer us taxi, accom, etc.. hmm, nearly forget that pokhara is a touristic town.. we met a couple on the way n they took us to the place they were staying..

Which is again, cheap.. 250 rupees a night...
It was about sunset when we arrived, but I could not take pics of itttt.. bcos i fell on the streets, n i think must have hit my camera.. sob sob.. if u noe me, my camera is my life!!! argh..

After much fiddling, its the lens thats abit faulty, everytime i turn on it made some old engine sound... n i couldn't use AF.. but other than that, still usable.. so i switch to manual focus n continued using..haha..This is the Phewa Tal... the main lake here.. where the whole tourist town surrounds it..

Time for Dhal Bhaat...

to be continued...