Final Day in Pokhara

We were up very early (3.30am) and on the bus to Sarangot. This is a hill overlooking Pokhara and offers excellent views of the Annapurna ranges. The reason for getting up so early was so that we could catch the sun rising over the himalayas. Luckily for us because of the heavy rain we had very clear skies and had an excellent view of both the sunrise and the mountains.

After breakfast back at the motel it was again free time as another Banda had been organised, this time by the transportation companies. This included restricting travel on roads by parking lines of buses on them and then later a mass line of taxis, probably 150+ streaming through lakeside all tooting their horns. Luckily the bhanda finished at 12pm and everything went back to normal again.

After lunch we boarded the bus and headed to the devils falls and mahendra cave. This where a river falls through limestone caves and then disappears underground. The final stop before the airport was the Tibetan refugee camp where we saw woman making carpets.

From here it was a short drive to the airport where we said our goodbye to Rajev and Lalit our driver. While we had a 25 min flight back to Kathmandu, they had a 5 hour drive back.