The Quinn Family Excellent Adventure: Goodbye Kathmandu

The Hostel we stayed at was also host to Top of the World Adventure PVT. LTD. http://topoftheworldadv.com/

Janardan Nepal, the managing director was kind enough to sit us down to make a Tour and Trekking plan. We insisted the Trek should include Sarala :-). Luckily she was available

Here's the plan

Dec 28 - Kathmandu to Pokhara by Tour Bus
Dec 29 - Relax for a few days at Lakeside
Dec 30 - Pokhara to Nayapul by Taxi.Nayapul 1070M to Ulleri 1960M Trek
Dec 31 - Ulleri 1960M to Ghorepani 2860M Trek Sunset view from Poolhill 3210M
Jan 1 - Sunrise view from Poonhill 3210M Ghorepani 2860M to Tadepani 2660M Trek
Jan 2 - Tadepani 2660M to Jhinudanda 1990 Trek Natural Hot Springs
Jan 3 - Jhinudanda 1990 to Nayapul 1070M Trek Nayapul to Pokhara by bus
Jan 4 - Relax and explore Pokhara
Jan 5 - Paragliding with Advance Paragliding
Jan 6 - Relax and explore Pokhara
Jan 7 - Pokhara to Chitwan by bus Chitwan Package, Village Walk, Sunset View, Cultural Show
Jan 8 - Jungle Walk, Elephant Breeding Centre, Jeep Safari
Jan 9 - Bird watching

We said goodbye to our new friends at the hostel and we out for an early departure to our tour bus. We wound up on a different bus I think but at least we landed in the same place. I still need to look into that later. The roads here are pretty rough. Much of them are under construction. The bumps and dust are immense. Hours of bumpy roads lined with hard manual labor. Their work is beautiful. Artistic almost. Pokhara is home to a lakeside community beside the beautiful Phewa lake. We were fortunate to land here within their 5 days of New Years celebration. It was also their 20th Street Festival. Many locals and tourists were here. Many were from close neighboring countries. The hotels, restaurants and streets were packed with happy smiling people. It was really nice to see. The lake is populated by beautiful watercraft and it's shore lined with all kinds of beautiful celebrations. We spend some time finding and renting mid sized nap sacs for our Trek and repacked for the Trek. We also could not stop going to a local Mediterranean Restaurant called the Med 5 http://www.med5restaurant.com/ They were awesome. Plus they had a fire lol. We were ready to hit the Mountains, yay

These guys are so awesome

They work so hard to take care of us