Saturday 19 December We spend a quiet day on our room before check out. We use the wifi in the lobby a short while. Malcolm gets an return email about a volunteer place. They can offer us a position. But at £1000 per person for 1 week. We don't have $4000 to spend like that. It's seems they are really after money. They should have just said. We walk to our new accommodation and there is a nice vibe about the place. But for some reason they cannot take us, so ...

Friday 18 December It was a good sleep and I'm glad we have time before we have to be up to attend breakfast with the group. We go to hot breads. The food is pretty good! We order mint tea. Which turns out to be tea with a few fresh mint leaves. If it's not plain tea or coffee or chai it's often not right. It's kinda funny. We arrange a time to meet for our momo dumpling lunch and then part ways. We go researching hiking trips and get a few different quotes and ...

Thursday 17 December When we leave to meet the others for breakfast we are pretty much ready to leave. We have breakfast at a little organic vegetarian cafe. It's good food. We discuss morning options and decide to take the boat across the lake to the path up the mountain to the peace pagoda. Is a lovely morning. The walk is nice. I'm terrible at hills, but eventually we get there within time! It's lovely and peaceful at the top with potential good views. Appa...

Wednesday 16 December We are up and packed and ready for breakfast before 7:30. We leave about 8:30. A bit later than planned. The van isn't a great experience due to a petrol/diesel smell plus the roads. We have to stop a while in road works. There is much less horns here, but the driving can still be scary. As ppl pass dangerously and ppl can drive faster as there are not as many cars. It's very pretty coming in. Lakes and mountains. Just out of pokhara we s...

Tuesday 15 December I wake to what sounds like a call to prayer. Not long after, the elephants behind the hotel trumpet loudly. An interesting alarm clock to say the least. There is no rush to breakfast this morning thankfully. Scrambled eggs and potatoes. Yum. We get ready to leave by 10am. We walk the short distance to the river and board a dugout canoe. We take the canoe just over 2 hours down the river. We heaps of different types of birds and even a rhino ...