Nepal is a beautiful country and unlike India you can eat steak, which I did, a lot. India will do that to you, not eating red meat for 6 weeks really sets you up for a steak binge. And burgers, lots of burgers. The people were friendly and I purchased so many steaks at this one restaurant that I was being treated like a member of the family, hugs all around. We stayed at a great hotel, made hilarious by the fact that the hotel manager had a crush on my traveling buddy Sam, which made him considerably awkward as the manager was a 50 year old man with wife and kids. Reaching Pokhara was no easy task and by easy I mean enjoyable and comfortable. It is probably the second worst bus journey I have ever experienced. I was recovering from quite a bad case of food poisoning when I had to catch a 10 hour government bus to the border, I left my arm hanging out of the window which got quite badly sunburned. We turned up at the border near nightfall and spent the next couple of hours moving from building to building trying to get our visas sorted out. The next day we had to take a 10 hour overnight bus to Pokhara and that journey clinches the number 1 spot for worst bus journey ever. I didn't fit in the seat and had to sit sideways, the floor was lined with people sitting down or standing up. Got no sleep, which wasn't so bad because at one point the bus hit a pair of potholes so big, everyone that was asleep assumed we had driven off a cliff and were about to die. It shouldn't have but this made me smile, teach them for falling asleep on an uncomfortable bus. It was worth it though as Pokhara was a great city. We did some trekking which was fun but I had no clue as to how hard it was going to be. Staying in tea houses suspended over cliffs at cloud level was an experience I won't forget anytime soon. At one point I jumped into the restaurant area, a tad overzealous due to my growling stomach, and the whole room swayed to the left and right.
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