A small attempt to make like a bit more colourful.
Pokhara is THE starting and/or finishing point for all treks into the Annapurna mountains. Hence the whole strip close to Phewa lake is dominated with Hotels, restaurants, German bakeries (not that you would be able to buy a bread there, they mainly serve a variety of cakes), travel agencies, souvenir and trekking shops. Anyway, this place has some kind of hippiesk feeling to it, especially when you come close to the northern end of the lake. You see many people with dreadlocks, colorful line outfits surrounded by a specific scent. You can have quite some fun here doing Paragliding, flying with light weight planes, rafting, motor biking or just as I did strolling around the city, drinking coffee and relaxing the aching muscles.
Phewa lake in the fog of the early morning hours.
Towering over Pokhara with some amazing views on the high mountains is the stupa of peace. But don’t forget to take of your shoes while walking around it.
While strolling just a few meters from the tourist ghetto you will find yourself an the Nepalese daily life of field work, river laundry hole digging including the rather ineffective removement of poisonous snakes, child and animal care and tons of modern society garbage. If I ever hear somebody again saying the tourist have destroyed everything I will send them out of their Cafe Latte comfort zone to have a look around the actual city, people and poverty. Their is absolutely nothing lovely about how the people live, there is just a lot that needs to be changed.
Where to ut the hay, if you only have a backyard?
Streets of Pokhara. There isn’t much you would find beautiful or amazing.