Three bearded boys from FueledByRice made it to the center of Nepal two days ago, to a town called Pokhara.\u00a0 This is the gateway to trekking in the Himalayas, and so it is the most tourist-visited area in Nepal (according to one guide book a-skimmed). \u00a0 The beauty is certainly an attraction.\u00a0 The town is situated on a mountain lake, hemmed with pines and the green slopes of foothills.\u00a0 When clouds aren’t cloaking them, the white peaks of Anapurna and M…. rise from the Himalaya heights for a stunning backdrop.\u00a0 (I’ve seen pictures — the clouds haven’t yet lifted but enough to see just a glimpse of white rocky slopes one afternoon after a rain).<\/p>\n
The town’s feel is laid-back, a nice contrast to Kathmandu’s Thamel area bustling with hustling and hawking and honking.\u00a0 So, we run into other tourists and have English conversations and go to eat together at times.\u00a0 Last night we met a nice Dutch cyclist for dinner who’s doing basically the same route as FBR, only backwards in time for the Olympics (anyone inform CCTV?).\u00a0 We also met a German cyclist who gave us tips about Europe and a warm invite to his place if we go by.\u00a0 A group of three Israelis are motorcycling, but are interested in trying out the Bi-Cycle, motored by legs and rice.\u00a0 They’re staying at our same hotel.<\/p>\n
So, we poke around Pokhara, not trekking–to the chagrin of many-a-would-be-trek-organizer–but rather resting and eating and reading and frizbeeing and meeting others, with a little time here or there on the vast network we like to call cyberspace, and resting the puzzling soreness of our posteriors (as Jim might say).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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