Nepal: Pokhara - World Peace Pagoda

The most obvious route up to the pagoda begins on the south bank of Fewa Lake, behind the Fewa Resort.

Boatmen will drop you in the lakeside and the path leads straight up the hillside on cut stone steps. 

easy path.

reminder.

a little bit tough after you walk into jungle.

1st stop point aka the Fewa Resort that i mentioned earlier. 

We had whole day for the pagoda so we take our american time to enjoy the scenery.

We stopped by for more than an hour, had our late morning tea and snack with the following wonderful scenery. 

I feel like never want to leave this place. 

oversea the Annapurna 

great weather indeed.

and you can see the old town of Pokhara from here. 

on the roof top of Fewa Resort. 

another leisure hiking from the stop point to the Pagoda.

Be respect

opening and closing time.

and ta-da, the beautiful white pagoda.

in memory of one of the founder. 

fats and i.

 We took another route to got back from pagoda and that is our biggest regret to did so!

We refer to Lonely Planet, The Scenic Route (2h) and that route is actually having road construction, we were walking on the edge of the mountain when huge truck passing by.

this is how our feet look like after the "scenic route".  

Alright this is the quick one, and this mark the end of my Nepal trip.

Yea yea yea i know i mentioned to write some restaurant review in Pokhara but i got no nice picture to show (its either too dark because of current cut off or blur), so i will just skip that.

Next will be hmmm.... Koh Samui & Koh Tao, Thailand, which we paid the visit in March 2013.

And yea again i know has been delay for more than a year, i will pick it up ok!

Do come back and visit me often.

By the way if you have any question on Nepal or other trips, please do not hesitate to ask me!








Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
140503, 1115am
Rach in rushing out mood.

Nepal: Pokhara - Noble Inn Review + Fewa Lake Boat Trip.

This will be a combine post for Pokhara accommodation review and Few Lake, the main attraction of Pokhara.

As Pokhara is one of the main travel destination of Nepal (because of its lake, a few leisure to medium level trek and extreme activity such as paragliding and etc), just don't worry bout accommodation, there are countless of inn, guesthouse, hotel even luxury resort available.

We did some research and found out some famous place such as Hotel Blue Heaven, Hotel Peace Plaza are overprice, probably because they're located in the nicest point where guest could see Himalayan from room. 

But well, we don't stay in the room all the time so doesn't really matter if we could see the mountains from room.

Again, my priority to choose a room were: 

1. Great sun light.

2. Clean and airy. 

3. Quiet environment yet handy to go everywhere. 

So our final decision is Noble Inn, which located in an alley off the main street. 

where noble inn located.

you can see the signboard on the entrance of alley from main street. Noble inn is not the only guesthouse in that alley so nothing to worry bout when walk back during night time. 

lovely and sunny building.

We waved a taxi in the bus station and its only cost us less than RM10 to the place, but yea the bus station isn't far from main street.

We love the place in our first sign, lovely big garden and stand alone building with not more than 15 rooms, big window in every room and guess what...

We only book a standard double room (USD 14/night) and got upgrade to suite room (USD 24/night). Ok because we told the manager that we were on honeymoon hahahahahhahahahahahahaah.

Suite room come with a small living room and big balcony, where you will see the following view right there. 

right from our balcony. 

A short clip that shown the mountain view and surrounding of the guesthouse. 

Of course not super full view of Himalaya but it was good enough for us!

Shame that i didn't take down any room picture (i never thought i will have to starting hotel review post that time). But Noble Inn do have an website, you can get all kind of information from there. 

Noble Inn, Pokhara. 

Add: Mansawar Rd, Pokhara, 33700, Nepal.
Tel: +977 61-464926
Website: http://nobleinn.com/

You will love Noble Inn if...

1. You're looking for fair deal more than great hotel facilities enjoyment.

2. Simple yet clean, bright and airy room. 

3. Love quiet environment yet not too far from the center. 

And something that you might should have to know before contact Noble Inn... 

1. No power supply 24h, just like most of the hotels in Pokhara / Nepal. 

2. No internet connection when current cut off. But when power is on the connection was fair and smooth. 

3. Simple breakfast (breads and egg) serves slow (but hey what are you rushing for?)

4. Furniture is wore and old, but functioning well though. 

5. Hate to walk back though dark and quite alley during night time (we brought torch light and feel safe)   

6. Hot shower but hot water come slow. 

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Pokhara got its name from Fewa Lake. 

Norbu told us, Pokhara in Nepal language mean "The Lake's City".

Fewa lake is the biggest lake in Nepal (or in the regional?), i love this place first saw from internet, because its very similar with Motueka, New Zealand, the small little town where i spent almost 4 months.

So the 2nd day in Pokhara, we took a walk in the lake side, like what the tourist usually did.

his collection, local door frame and his back. 

the lake is huge and hazy during early morning.

colourful boat everywhere. 

we decided to take boat to another side and hike up to Peace Pagoda. So we rent the boat with driver. 

our boat driver. 

very peaceful lake, but it is deep.

fats in the front.

and me.

the island in the middle is a temple, the Goddess of the lake.

lake and himalaya.

great weather

we come close to the lake and decided to stopped by and have a look.

small island and this is the only building 

the temple for the lake. 

people rushing in for praying.

this show you how big is the lake. 

bird on a bird.

the white peak is peace pagoda.

we love this small little town with calm lake. 

If you're confusing and wondering on the maps, let me do a little explanation. 

We took the boat from the boat place (refer maps below), and if you just want to visit temple, you can actually take boat from temple boat place, which is cheaper and nearer. 

So we took boat from boat place, stop by in temple and go to the starting point of world peace pagoda, and did 2 hours leisure hiking to the pagoda. 

Peach Pagoda post will be the next, and i'll continue with the surrounding of lake. 

So the day after we did hiking to pagoda, we went to temple boat place for walk after lunch. 

and we found lotsa colourful boats in the place and that was amazing. 

the best pix that i took in Pokhara

wider view of the lake from this point.

sharp color. 

sunken boat.

the lake bank. 

last but not least, us. =)

Alright will come back as soon as i can.

Next is Peace Pagoda.






20140501, 0420pm
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Rach in keep praying mood.

Nepal: Pokhara - How to go Pokhara from Kathmandu?

Pokhara mean city of lake in Nepal languange, which is one of the popular tourist destination in Nepal.

Most of the tourist went to Pokhara for trekking, but as John and I, we went for the lake and Peace Pagoda, we just want to find a place to rest ourselves after 5 days trek in EBC.

Before i start Pokhara, let me answer some questions before you ask. 

1. Where is Pokhara?

Western region of Nepal, a city by lake and surrounding by mountain, one of the most popular destination for tourist.

2. What can you do in Pokhara?

a. Trekking - more than 10 treks of different level of difficulties available in Pokhara, from 2d1n to more than 10 days for you to choose.

b. Extreme activiti - say like sky diving or paragliding.

c. Relax - One of our favorite activity in our 4d3n in Pokhara was sitting in the cafe and look out the lake.

3. How to go Pokhara from Kathmandu. 

a. Airplane - a few local airlines operates flight to Pokhara from Kathmandu everyday, if not mistaken, its cost USD100 to 200 for return ticket. Each way cost you an hour +.

b. Local bus - which was our choice to Pokhara because the fares is lots cheaper than tourist bus. 500rs / person / way. One way is 7 hours.

c. Tourist bus - which was our choice from Pokhara to Kathmandu, because we wanted to see what is the different between local one and what caused the fares so huge different. USD20 / person / way. Buffet lunch in resort is included (but nothing impress though hahahah).

4. Accommodation choice?      

Hotel, resort, inn, guesthouse, backpacker, B&B, you name it, Pokhara have it all.  

5. What are the must-visit?

a. Peace Pagoda - well the pagoda itself is nothing special but i love the scenery view on the top of the mountain.

b. Temple in the middle of the lake - small island in the middle of the lake.

c. Lake tour - rent a boat and take all the time you want to enjoy, or rent a boatman so you can free your hand for some great photograph.

d. Extreme activity - sky diving or paragliding were something i wanted to do but we skip it coz John was fallen sick.

Alright, if you want to take bus but you don't know which you should go for (either local or tourist), i list out some pro and con for both. 

Local (we choose the most popular, Blue Sky): 

Pro: cheaper fare (rs 500 = RM 15) for 7 hours ride.

Con: lunch is not including, bus condition is bit scary too.

              

              

Tourist (We choose the best name, Greenline):

Pro: lunch is included, bus conditions is great.

Con: expensive fare (USD20 = RM 70) for 7 hours ride.

                   

              

If you thought tourist bus driver has better driving skill, you are wrong. 

Its ain't bout driving skill from Kathmandu to Pokhara, its all about destiny.

The road condition from Kathmandu to Pokhara is SCARY, almost the worst condition road that i had ever come across.

I didn't take down any video clip, because from the minutes that the bus entered to "highway" (which is only 2 lanes), i decided put my life to God, i closed my eye and sleep.

BECAUSE IT WAS FREAKING SCARY!

I found a video from youtube, its not exactly like this, but similar, i should feel lucky because the road is just enough for 2 cars passing by. But hell, on that 7 hours ride, the bus driver was speeding on the cliff almost all the time. 

                                           

Photos below are from John, he took it when our bus driver is flying on the road, and i fallen asleep. 

He show me afterward and he said this is not the only 2 accidents he saw along the bus ride... 

Ok, perhaps you think its better to take flight. 

But that was an unforgettable experience though. hahahahha. 

and yea, of course, despite the scary road condition, you will see amazing glacier and river along the ride, which you could never seen from the plane. 

Alright next post will be Pokhara city (i rather called it a small town).

Hope i will get back soon la kbyethanks!

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
20140405, 0323pm
Rach in hungry mood.