HIIIIIIIII!!!! I’m back and happy to report that I am starting my day in a nice hotel and not in a guesthouse. I just can’t describe how happy I am right now although it might sound weird. I mean, you know it was fun to actually get the backpacking experience, but I tragically like nice resorts more and having a break after all of the hard work we did was rewarding beyond comprehension. This week has been divided by our time in Pokhara and our time in Kathmandu, which were both fun but significantly different. Our two days in Pokhara always started off with waking up on a nice, sunny morning in no rush and absolute peace and quiet, unlike the hard days on the trek where we had to wake up on a hard floor and get dressed and stuff in a hard and extraordinarily hard manner. We got dressed in peace and after brushing our teeth in a cool manner, we had a delightful breakfast which changed over the days and embarked on our awesome journey for the day. Our days consisted of us just touring Pokhara in peace and we actually saw a lot of cool stuff and people. Two of the three times we had dinner there, we ate at the Roadhouse Restaurant, which I mentioned in my last post(the first time was the first night in Pokhara). The food there always tasted very good and I would eat it again at any time. Pokhara itself was teaming of people, most of which were people we saw way back up on the Annapurna including an American who said hi to us multiple times and the loud band of hikers I mentioned in one of my earlier posts(we didn’t see Leia or her dad because they were on another excursion). The locals there were also very friendly and we went to multiple shops and cafes that were very full of life and interesting products. Everything we did was fun and I’m personally more into touring and exploring rather than backpacking and hiking up on high mountains with many casualties. It is who I am >:| Anyways, Pokhara was a nice break from all the crazy stuff we as a family did and it was a fun break. In Kathmandu, we also had a fun time touring and we stayed at two different locations. We stayed at our own location from before the trek and then at another location for the rest of our stay, where we watched movies! In fact, we only had a really long walking day during the last day! We had a nice cab driver named Raju who took us to several villages where we walked around and learned more about Buddhism and what life was like in these small villages. There were monuments of Buddha and apparently more Buddhas that followed him! There was also a really cool hologram of a statue that looked so real(It even had the shadow surrounding it!) and the scenery of where we were was amazing. There were baby goats everywhere and people were just simply enjoying life like in the village like up in the mountain. We even visited the town square and did fun stuff like meet new people and visit ruins centuries year old! It is seriously really fun here and I am having the best time!
What and adventure. So proud of you, and your sister too…