Day 4: Everyone tells us we are lucky to catch the Pokhara Street Festival
Nepal Day 4 – Chitwan to Pokhara
Our last Chitwan breakfast.Enjoyment!A group photo with our favorite driverThe faithful car that brought us aroundLike painting, only real.Imagine facing such beautiful scenery everyday…The Annapurna RangeThe Annapurna RangeThe Annapurna RangeThe Annapurna RangeThe Goat’s so clam!Hotel BarahiBalconyLUNCH!Guess that I’m stealing? 😛Our Hotel Restuarant 🙂A European-style Nepali restuarantColorful toys!Girls in Traditional CostumePumpkin carvings!Another look at the street festivalThe Fun Fair – You’ve got to pay to enter…Beautiful Nepali designs 🙂I asked him if its a Fish and he gave me this look…The start of the Pokhara Street FestivalNice smelling tasty looking sweet corn!A look to the other sideCruising down Fewa Lake, the second largest lake in Nepal.Our all so cool guide – KumarWater front house? 😛A lady ringing the bells at Tal Barahi TempleTal Barahi TempleOne of the few local stores at Tal Barahi TempleThe famous Tal Barahi Temple sitting on a giant stone in Fewa LakeLittle Japanese boy trying out a traditional musical instrumentColorful boats on the famous Fewa lakeThese birds were flying really near us!Kumar’s first shot at Jump Shot.Cranes!We went around spreading jump shots! Not sure what these kids were attempting though!Little children – hope of the nation 🙂A Lakhey chasing after a kidLakhey – One of the highlights of the Pokhara Street FestivalOne of the most beautiful hotels we stayed in. Too bad we were just ‘passing by’Oh Romeo Romeo…A beautiful performance with Nepal’s favorite songDinner!Chinese & English translationA fair trade poster. It’s not watermarked so feel free to spread this around
We spent the first half of the day in the car, a 4.5 hour ride from Chitwan to Pokhara. We slept soundly all the way, waking up just in time to catch the first glimpse of the Annapurna mountains. The driver, Ram, was ranting off his brain’s records of the heights of Annapurna one to nine (not sure) :
He was like ‘Annapurna 1 : 6 thousand xx hundred and xxxxxxxx… Annapurna 2: 6 thousand xxxx hundred and xxxxx…. Annapurna …….’
Halfway through we were like OK OK stop stop!
Its great to have a driver who has so many helpful information to share. He would often tell us if we want to buy things from a certain location, how much should we slash. When passing by a landmark, he would name the place and tell us the story. A probe into his lifestyle, he seems to be a person who loves to exercise… things like jog around the city outskirts, cycling for 2 hours etc… and his forte? He drives freak well. Many times we smoothly navigate through vehicles and other road users, sometimes with a distance difference of only 15cm apart. At the beginning we weren’t used to it and often squeeze each other hands in fear. But now, we just sleep. He’s too good at driving.
