K’MANDU-POKHARA At 7:30 AM we caught one of the “tourist buses” [these so-called luxury buses were, in fact, the same rattletrap jalopies that the locals travelled on!] bound for Pokhara, a 10-hour journey away. A veritable convoy of buses made the journey which was through a pretty landscape of steep hills, river gorges and pastoral valleys.
We reached Pokhara at 4:30 and were whisked off to a hotel by an energetic tout who offered to pay our taxi fare of RS30 if we stayed at his hotel, which turned out to be quite nice.
CurseOfTheTraveller 