DAY 74 (Sunday 02 October 2011)

Well today I got up to go for a swim to find that the pool wasn’t going to be opened until 0800hrs, so we decided to get up go for breakfast and then set off to see where we were going to head for, Charlie by this time had already looked at the map as he saw temple on the hill over to the left of FEWA LAKE a temple so we decided we would give it a go to get there.

We headed out of POKHARA around the lake but taking the road as we were following the little map in our trekking book that we bought before we came out here, whilst we were headed to what we found out was called WORLD PEACE PAGODA we stopped off and took a look at DEVI’s FALLS

Write up about Devi’s Fall

Devi’s Fall

We finally made it to the WORLD PEACE PAGODA about 2½ hours from setting off from our hotel; the views from the top were absolutely amazing as you can see below.

View on the right of the FEWA LAKE

 

View on the left of FEWA LAKE

Charlie on the steps of the temple

 

Me on the steps of the temple

View over Charlie’s shoulder at the top level of the temple

View over my shoulder at the top level of the temple

The World Peace Pagoda

We stayed to have something to eat and drink at the little cafe that is near the PAGODA and to top it of she was British, Juliette (that was her name) has been living out here for the past couple of years with her Nepali partner and she was very welcoming.  Not only is it a cafe, she also has rooms, so if you wanted you could stay for the night for a small price if you couldn’t be bothered trekking back down the massive hill come mountain.

Juliette had also recommended a place for us to go and book our Paragliding session; it was called FRONTIERS PARAGLIDING

Frontiers Paragliding

and is run by a British bloke, so yep you guessed it we are booked in for a session of Paragliding tomorrow.  I know what you must be thinking, ‘Are you nuts?’, well to be honest I am asking myself that same question, but at the end of the day it is an experience that I may either never do again or never want to do again.  The good thing that will come out of the paragliding tomorrow is that there will be photographic proof that I have done it so as soon as I can I shall get a couple of pictures put on here.

Well true to form for a Sunday, we got absolutely wet through so before going out for our evening meal, we came back to the hotel for a shower and some dry clothes before waiting for the rain to stop or even ease off so that we could go out for our evening meal.

 

La Pizzeria

Back to the hotel, for an earlyish night as we have to be back to FRONTIER tomorrow for 0900hrs to take the 25 minute drive to the launch point ready for take off.  So if I make it back in one piece I shall tell you of mine and Charlie’s adventures of the day.