NEPAL PROS and CONS
As i mentioned in my previous blog i just came back to Europe after 4 months of living in the chaotic city Katmandu for a for a month.
The rest of the time me and my brothers spent in a small city or more like a village.
A place called Pokhara. This is a hotspot for nature lovers, photographers,hippies and adrenaline junkies.
This small city is located in the most beautiful place! Snowcapped mountains that will wow you every time you look at them no matter how many times you see them, in never got sick of that view. Below the mountains is a small green lake surrounded by thick jungle full of wildlife. In the sky above eagles are flying together with paragliders.
At night people get together play guitar around a campfire or meet for the local beer "Everest" at the bar, talking about their trekking adventures or paragliding experience.
The thing i love about this place is that it got that 1970s vibe, people talk to each other, smartphones are left at home (because of very slow wifi) people are smiling more and everything is dirt cheap!
So take a ride on the wild side, rent a cool bike and go up the mountains, it won't burn a hole in your wallet.
We where lucky and arrived to Pokhara just in time for the annual color festival (Holy festival)
On this day people buy bags with powder in different colors, dance and get silly! in the end of the day you look like a clown got sick all over you!
It was a bitch to get out of our hair! but well worth it! People need to bring out their inner child more.
In our work as music software designers (JST) we are pretty depended on good WIFI to send big files.
Pokhara is probably one of the worst places to rely on the net to work the way it suppose to, many frustrated days infront of the computer to say at least!
If you ever visit this Pokhara and need to get OK wifi there is one place i can recommend, Perky beens cafe + they got the best organic coffee from the mountains in Nepal.
The native food is delicious and designed for the tuff mountain people aka sherpas. These people have super strengths, don't need any oxygen masks wile climbing the mountains their harts actually grow much larger than yours and mine, this is beacuse of the high altitude of about 827 metres (2,713 feet) above sea level.
Anyway the food the locals eat two to three times a day is called dal bhat.
Dal is a soup made of lentils and spices. This is served over boiled grain, bhat is usually rice but sometimes another vegetable curry, tarkari. Condiments are usually small amounts of extremely spicy pickle which can be fresh or fermented.
We ate dal bhat every day for 4 months morning and evening. the portions are huge and they insist on a refill every time!
Funny thing is, we lost 7 KG during our time in Nepal.
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PROS
+A perfect place to relax! rent a boat and let your mind drift.
+There is allot of stuff to do like mountain trek, rafting or just shopping some pashmina or cool silver.
+Nothing is expensive! If you cant afford Nepal you should get a real job haha.
+You will meet a different type of tourist here (Not the Thailand crowd)
CONS
-During the hot season you can expect to get a horrible stomach bug.
-The food is pretty limited and everything taste the same.
-Stay away from the wet season, if you don't love thunderstorms and humidity and constant rain.
KATMANDU
Katmandu is the capital city of Nepal and is part of the old hippy trail, back in the day when people where in touch with the nature hugging trees, experimenting with psychedelics. Hopping on a buss all the way to Nepal trough Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan just to get high...Different times back then hahaha!!
Katmandu is a messy dusty labyrinth packed with hostels, silver and gem shops, majestic temples and a whole lot of history.
The living situation is about 3-4 times more expensive than Pokhara but as i said before everything is dirt cheap, we payed around 4 dollars a night for our room in Pokhara and around 15 dollar a night in Katmandu, so who can complain right :D
A Few days in KMD is more than most people can handle. Its one of those places where every shop, street kid, and trek guide want a cut of your money.
Many of the historic temples are just piles of rock today because of the 8.9 earthquake back in 2015.
Me and my two brothers where actually there when the quake hit, it was the most terrifying thing we ever experienced, it made you feel so small and helpless. We where lucky to survive thousands of people died that day, The ground where constantly vibrating with after-quakes, peoples homes where completely destroyed, blood everywhere.
I will make a blog about this incident if you like.
This is whats left of our hotel where we spent 4 weeks!!! 117 people died in our hotel.
PROS
+Katmandu is the place to buy silver/gems, cool yack wool blankets, mandala art or antiques.
Before the earthquake a big + was to see all the temples on the historic durbar square. :(
CONS
-Easy to get tricked by hotels and guides.
-Everything is more expensive
-You will get asked to buy drugs 100 times a day :D
vacation score 4 out of 5
Living score 2.5 out of 5
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