Pokhara

I enjoyed being back in civilization by sleeping long and taking a hot shower. After breakfast, I went with some of the group in the town. We window shopped, had good food at the seaside and relaxed.

Hotel Snowland

boats on Phewa Lake

After lunch, we started the real shopping:

• knitted hat, gauntlets, scarf, socks in rainbow colors
• earrings, bracelets, necklaces and key ring pendants
• T-Shirts with embroidery
• bags
• incense sticks
• post cards and
• paintings of the mountains.

 Getting my Mustang Shirt embroidered

In the late afternoon, we decided to have coffee and cake at the Fishtail Lodge - the most spectacular and posh venue around Pokhara. We went on a pontoon and sat in the garden with a great view.

Ferry across to the Fishtail Lodge

view from Fishtail Lodge

We read the brochure and had the idea to come back in the morning for breakfast. We asked our waiter to reserve a table.
At 8 am, we were back for a great breakfast, a wonderful table with the best view on Machhapuchhare (Fishtail mountain).

Machhapuchhre - Fishtail

Fishtail Lodge

Flowers in the garden

 Relaxed after a great breakfast

We did some more shopping on the way back to the city centre and then went each on our own last trip around Pokhara. I strolled along the seaside before having a lunch at beach shack.

My lunch beach shack

 beach fast food

Later in the afternoon, we took a taxi to the airport and had no problems clearing all our luggage without paying excise weight. We boarded our flight on time and I got a window seat on the mountain side. So I made some great panorama pictures.

Himalaya panorama