Okay, let's begin with discussing the trip out of Kathmandu. It was amazing to finally get out of the city, it can get on top of you pretty quickly and it's nice to get out of the valley to get a better perspective. While we were discussing which type of music best went with the Kathmandu vibe Nick offered up classic rock and it definitely fits. I mean, that is if you are not into Hindi or Nepali music. I can take both in limited doses, but I think I'll be sticking to Hendrix and some Rolling Stones for a while. I had been on a Joss Stone kick, but it really doesn't fit in with what's happening over here. Anyway, we woke up at around 6am to catch a cab to the bus park and I managed to secure us some tea while we waited for them to load the bus. Soon enough we were on the way out of one valley and into another. The bus ride was mainly uneventful, save for one bus in a ditch on the side of the road that cause a number of delays. It looked like the bus hit pretty hard judging by the broken out windows and damaged tires. For a moment it made me question the decision to keep going everywhere by bus, but I really have no choice. We arrived in Pokhara around 3 o'clock and made our way to the garden hotel, deposited our dirty laundry, unpacked our bags and set out to lakeside where we ate some snacks and had a couple of beers while watching the sun go down over Lake Phewa.
We have done a bunch of riding scooters all over this valley, from Sarangkot to Fulbari, and have yet to meet with any real trouble, although Nick's scooter sucks going up hills, which is an issue when we are doing some off-road scootering. We're pretty much professional scooter riders at this point after dodging cows, buses, people, and tractors while on the "highway". I'll get into more detail about the contracts and tournaments I'm working on in another post, but things are progressing. No for the easy way out, picture time......
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| Becks getting a clean shave, within minutes there were a bunch of Japanese tourists taking pictures. Our barber told them it'd be $20 per picture. |
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| View from halfway up to Sarangkot |
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| Feeling good |
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| Looking pretty awesome |
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| Put a good swing on this one at a new hole on The Himalayan Course. Too much club though, and it ended up over the green |
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| Smoked this drive down the right side of the fairway with a little draw. |
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| Pretty sweet. |
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| Ditto |
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| One of the off road paths that we managed to navigate successfully |
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| Check out the barbed wire around the green |
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| View from the 16th at The Himalayan. If you get a strong gust of wind and are off balance, it may be your last golf shot. |
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| Fulbari Hotel garden area |
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| On our way to the World Peace Stupa |
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| Before the Nazis ruined swastikas, they were a peaceful symbol. |
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| Devils Fall, Pokhara. I tried to take some pictures of the cave, but being a cave, the pictures were too dark. |
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| World Peace Stupa. |
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