{"id":7642,"date":"2018-11-11T03:53:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T08:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:33:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:33:26","slug":"november-10-pokhara-to-kumarwarti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=7642","title":{"rendered":"November 10 – Pokhara to Kumarwarti"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 10 – Pokhara to Kumarwarti<\/p>\n

Today our group had a slow start. Everyone had the morning to themselves in Pokhara, with the option of going paragliding for a few hours as an additional cost activity. Catherine & I chose to take a pass on that one. We have had enough of high altitude thrills for a while but more than half of our colleagues were up for it! I look forward to hearing all about their experience.<\/p>\n

Last night Catherine had the beginning of a sore throat so she decided to enjoy our comfortable hotel room this morning & rest a bit longer.<\/p>\n

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Kalpana walked downtown with me to find a local pharmacy to buy some non-prescription medicine for Catherine & then to find another shop for me to buy some new sunglasses to replace the ones that had broken the day before.<\/p>\n

Our tour group reassembled at 1:00pm & we boarded the bus for a 6 hour drive to Kumarwarti where we will spend the next two days at the Barauli Homestay enjoying the local village & nearby Chitwan National Park.<\/p>\n

Everyone in the group is having a great time but our energy levels are dropping off a bit as the past several days have been very busy. The bus ride today provided a bit of “recharge” time for all of us – despite the many bumps & swerves on the road.<\/p>\n

Google maps predicted that the journey would take about 4 1\/2 hours to travel about 170 kilometers but it took us 6 1\/2 hours.<\/p>\n

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The first half of our journey followed the same road we took a few days ago to get to Pokahara from Kathmandu then we turned off the road to Kathmandu & headed further south.<\/p>\n

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The good news was that this new road was recently rebuilt (after the 2015 earthquake) so it was in much better shape, giving us a smoother ride. But the bad news was that all the vehicles started travelling much faster & nobody changed their desire to pass everything in front of them – so we witnessed numerous close calls with oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately our driver was not at all aggressive in his driving. He was focused first on getting us to our destination safely & if that meant that it took a bit longer to get there then that was OK with all of us.<\/p>\n

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The last hour of our journey was in the dark & that was a whole new experience in itself. Everyone was still passing aggressively & visibility was way down. Fortunately it was not long before we turned off the main highway & started traveling down a local village road that had no other vehicles on it.<\/p>\n

When we arrived at our destination there was a group of villagers there to greet us with garlands & tikas.<\/p>\n

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We went to the main dining hall & had a brief orientation followed by a delicious traditional supper on a large stainless steel plate.<\/p>\n

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After a long journey & a meal we were more than ready for bed in our little cottage. There will be lots of time to explore the village tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 10 – Pokhara to Kumarwarti Today our group had a slow start. Everyone had the morning to themselves in Pokhara, with the option of going paragliding for a few hours as an additional cost activity. Catherine & I chose to take a pass on that one. We have had enough of high altitude thrills […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-nepal-india"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-1Zg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8072,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions\/8072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}