Pokhara Lakeside is a strip along Fewa Lake, with mostly 2 and 3 storey hotels and an occasional newer 6 storey cement block. Balconies look across the lake or at the beginning of the Annapurna Range. Here it is green but the sparkling white mountains of out in the distance. We stayed at the Crown Hotel which is set back from the street a little, with a garden,k a fountain and a blue Buddha or Hindu man with a trident. Next door is a row of hotels (one with a massage spa) and the other side has a open hectare of field. Yesterday it was weeded by three women, so today it is brown earth. The hotel in front has 6 water storage tanks on the roof, two black plastic and three metal, half hidden behind a bamboo fence. Solar panels line the edge of the wall along the storage area. Then just below that, thee is the usual a collection of broken chairs,pots, old gas cylinders, cement in plastic bags, old restaurant signs and pot plants in various stages of growth. Pretty typical of roof tops everywhere.
From our balcony I can see the para gliders that leave most mornings from the top of the next green mountain. Today there are only 60. Yesterday at 11 am there looked to be 100 wafting around on the thermals, circling and dipping. I am going to try this. It is a tandem flight, and this morning I spoke to a UK man who said he was not so good with heights, but that the pilots ask how brave you are and adapt. So 30 minutes might be my lot.
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