Arriving back in Pokhara I was kean to get back to the Jellyfish hostel where I hoped I would meet up with a newly medicated Sam.

Walking down the main street by the riverside I heard “Hey Kelly, man” and there was Anand sat drinking coffee still dressed as we saw him last in the Andamans in his orange robe and staff which he found from there. It was such a delight!! I smoked a few cigs with him and had a coffee and then head off to find Sam after aranging for Anand to come to our hostel, keeping it as a surprise for Sam. I stoked up on beer and goodies on the way and went back to find a much better looking Sam, then sat and waited on the balcony over looking the river in the afternoon sunshine for the reunion.

We had a great night, drank many beers and tungba, then went and had a meal with Val and Blair where the merriment continued.

We spent the next 8 days in Pokhara mainly just chilling out and sight seeing. We took a local bus riding on the top to another riverside called Begnas Tal, there wasn’t much there but we enjoyed the relaxation and had a traditional Nepalese song sung to us, it did go on a bit though…

We also hired motorbikes for 2 days and got to see more of the area and visted the Gorkha museum and bat caves. On the second day we had gone quiet far out of Pokhara when Sam and my bike chain kept coming off, next thing Val and Blair had a flat so the decision was made for the guys to head back on our bike while Val and myself stayed by a little shop at the roadside. Luckily for us we found that they had cheap beer and so we happily passed our time chatting and drinking and weren’t ready to leave when the guys came back to collect us. The bikes were good fun but the roads are quite dangerous there, not only for dodging the occasional cow but most of the bends are blind corners and the buses go hell for leather around them with people hanging onto the top. Whilst we were there a bus accident had happened when the bus broke suddenly to avoid hitting someone and a few people sitting on the roof were flung off and died, brings things back to a harsh reality of the dangers. 

On the last day in Pokhara Val had decided to go paragliding and so Blair, Sam and myself all sat eagerly awaiting to see her come down. Val loved it and wants to go again, next time sam and myself are back in Nepal we will definately be bringing more money for a few ourselves.

We left Pokhara back on the local bus heading back to Kathmandu, Val and Blairs time sadly was nearly up but we had one last big adventure before we left which was a flight around Everest!