The stupa towers high above the lake and the city, an ideal place to send a message of peace to the world. My bucket list for Pokhara is slowly coming to an end, so I set off early in the morning to climb the hill with the World Peace Stupa. But is a…
Actually, an old, rickety women's bike would have been enough for me to complete the planned tour through the city, but of course the rental companies prefer the much more expensive mountain bikes. So you finally set off for 500 rupees, a bright green, fairly new-looking bike under your ass, with an estimated 100 gears and a carbon-hardened frame (that's what...
Then the big day. The birthday present to myself. The sky is clear and completely blue, as it should be, a slight shimmer of clouds around the Machapuchare, nothing exciting. The view of the Sarankot hill shows green and brown and yellow, forest and more forest and above that the peak. The starting point. Perfect prospects for…
A lot has changed in the last almost 45 years. Nothing remains of the quiet, remote town, the smelly streets littered with rubbish, but where you could buy wonderful cakes. The only foreigners who were still viewed with suspicion were hippies like us. Somehow out of place. I remember our campsite,...
So today we're heading west to Pokhara. I said goodbye to Sitaram, it was difficult for us to say goodbye. He was an excellent guide, not only in terms of his knowledge of the local fauna and flora. Above all, he lightened me by a few kilograms when the old man was on the verge of collapse. I wish …