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<\/a><\/p>\nG-Adventures kindly agreed to let us opt out of the drive & instead we will fly from Kathmandu to Pokhara (at our own expense) & then meet up with our group again at the hotel in Pokhara. The 7 hour drive will be reduced to a 25 minute flight – well worth the added cost.<\/p>\n
In the morning we walked into the Thamel shopping district to find a women\u2019s craft co-operative store that Catherine had read about in her copy of The Lonely Planet Travel Guide for Nepal.<\/p>\n
It was a really nice store & Catherine found numerous items handmade by Nepalese women to bring home.<\/p>\n After lunch we walked through the city to the travel agency to pick up our airline tickets and book a local tour for tomorrow. The travel agency could not have been more accommodating and pleasant to deal with.<\/p>\n Photo below: a Ganesh statue inside the entrance to the travel agency office<\/p>\n By coincidence the Canadian Consulate was on the same street so we dropped in to say hello & to sign their guest book.<\/p>\n The sidewalks on the way to the travel agency office were separated from the vehicle traffic & much wider than in the older section of town. As a result we only had to navigate through the crowd of pedestrians going about their daily business.<\/p>\n Photo below: a statue in the middle of a busy roundabout in the upscale shopping district.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n