Cheryl and Mike’s Adventure

Well, alot has happened since our last post, so let’s get everyone up to speed:

When we last left you, we were heading out of Pokhara, heading to the Royal Chitwan National Park! The trip there went well, it was kind of a mixed bag. We stayed at a place called the Gorkha Hamlet Resort, for 3 days/2nights (got there via bus)which was just outside the actual Park. We discovered that there are sort of two Park experiences, staying ‘inside’ and staying ‘outside’. The main difference, cost, plays a big part of how much you are going to do actually inside the park. We went, naturally, the less expensive route, and not that it wasn’t entirely bad, but we did alot of things kind of on the “outskirts” of the park, so to speak (For you Jackson-savvy people out there, compare it too doing activities in the Bridger-Teton National Forest vs. the GTNP). We did have some great experiences, we had a nice AM canoe ride along the border of the park, where we saw several alligators up close, and also had a nice visit to the Elephant training center (where, a loose baby elephant ran amok in the crowd, causing quite a scene and was actually very funny. [read on]

Couple of quick thoughts for this evening (this morning for you all back in the States) as Cheryl and I are about to head out to dinner on our last night in Pokhara…

-Well, today was much slower and kind of nice, we basically spent the entire day shopping up and down the main ‘strip’ here in Lakeside (which is the section of Pokhara we’re staying in), and just overall lounging around (we’re both feel better, our respective colds seem to be dying down a bit, thank God). It was very nice, and we both banged out alot of shopping for ourselves and for others (*Note to family members: Christmas this year will have a decidedly, uh, Nepali-feel to it). We have to shop light, which can be unfortunate at times, because we have to travel light, obviously. There’s some really cool stuff over hear, as you might think, but the thing is we have to haul it around for another month. [read on]

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