Pohkara

It is Tuesday evening here and we arrived in Pokhara yesterday after 7 hour-ish bus ride from Kathmandu.  We had tried to leave on Sunday but we couldn't get a reservation so stayed in Kathmandu from Friday night to Monday morning once we got back from Lukla (didn't think we would make it on a plane that day but had someone work their magic).  My stomach hasn't been doing great things so the hike from Namche to Lukla, the plane ride, and the taxi ride made for a miserable of couple of days.  We stayed at the guesthouse above the Sherpa store knowing that it would be super nice for us, and not knowing the price, so unfortunately we ended up paying pretty expensive US prices, but it was worth being spoiled for a few nights. 

Today we took a row boat across the lake here today then walked up to the World Peace Pagoda and walked a longer "scenic" route back down and were greated by woods full of monkeys at dinner time.  Lol...I took my knife out and put it in my pocket just in case but they paid no attention to us. 

Tomorrow we will leave for a 6 day trek in the Annapurna region. It is muggy here, lower elevation than even Kathmandu, we aren't hiring a porter on the trek so will be carrying all of our own stuff, it is quite a bit of elevation gain, AND the weather is cloudy/foggy so it may not be quite as enjoyable as previously but I'm still looking forward to it....(Jay is afraid of the leeches:)).

Once we are back we only have a couple of days left between here and Kathmandu before I leave to head home!