After leving Bhaktapur during the first two days of our arriving to Nepal, we loaded all our baggage again to transport it to Phokara. Phokara is the second city with more population of the country. In fact, the best road of the country comunicates the two bigger important cities. This one comented, and Khatmandu.
But, what a road!. A rocky, narrow and dangerous way to drive by a begginer car driver or a person who try to cross the country with a rented car.
Sitting besides the window of the bus that conducted us to Phokara, I might see several images and pictures of the ordinary nepali's life, rice fields, forests and foggy silluates of hills and deep valleys. Tired, waiting my throat illness stoped for once. Uffff!
We did a brief rest time for lunch. My apetite was still slept, but I tried to eat something to keep me stand up and strong. Meanwhile, near the cantine where our bus stopped, there were a group of tradional dressed women hunting frogs in the water rice fields. A beautiful picture that we captured and I want to show you now.
This day was a transition day. Perhaps the worst of all of them; cause in every journey you did, there's always a day without not a lot to do or think about. 10 km before getting Phokara the sky had got dark with a lotta grey clouds and had begun to rain. Oh, no!. Would it be a pressage of rainy days during the trek?. Almost. But next day in Phokara would raise a sunny and lovely day to start our mountain adventure trek.
Besides the road, we saw the Trisuli river, where under this long and swingined bridge we would finish the rafting few days later.
And now we are in Phokara. Our O'trek hostel stayed in the backpackers' meighborhood, very closed to one side of Phewa lake.
Phokara is a lovely place to stay at least two days. You've got a long street for shopping, plenty of fancy restaurants, libreries and music shops for westerners and foreigners. Several clubs with no proefessional music bands playing at live at night. And all of it wrapped by the Hindi-Bhuddish culture and its habitants.
From The Peace pagoda placed onto the top of a hill near the lake, you have the first fascinated image of the Annapurnas Himal, with its collosal and emerged Macchapuchhare or Fish tale peak, who protects this mountain system.
...., the plot continues in chapter III, with the Annapurna adventure trek. :-)