Post Annapurna

I finished trekking, flew to Pokhara, and finally said so long to my guide. It was nice not having someone always there waiting on me.

After a couple of days in town, seeing a few friends I had made along the trail, and eating some good food, I headed out to Sadhana Yoga - a retreat located just 2km from Pokhara city. My next 6 days consisted of morning meditation at 6.15am. Followed by a morning walk, yoga, delicious breakfast, steam or mud bath, afternoon meditation, daal baht lunch (traditional Nepalese food, eaten for lunch and dinner), evening yoga at 4.30pm, yummy bean soup and chapati bread dinner, and an early night at 8.30pm. It was so nice getting up early and going to bed early. I had become quite accustomed to it after trekking. It was even better not having to move around - just staying in the same place for a while chilling. I felt so great after the 6 days, better then I have ever felt. I highly recommend it to anyone going to Nepal. If you are interested checkout www.sadhana-asanga-yoga.com. Most people stay for only couple of days, but if you can you should stay longer, you definitely benefit more.

Arriving back in Kathmandu was a bit of a shock. I remember saying previously that I thought Kathmandu was OK. But this time it seemed really dusty and polluted. Maybe it was because I had just spent the last three weeks in the fresh air. I didn't remember the roads being so bad either. The only reasons why you could call them roads is because cars drive, or should I say bounce along them. I can't even start to describe how bad the surfaces are. You may have well been driving through a paddock, minus the grass, and with more bumps.

Thankfully after two nights I was heading to Delhi. Three weeks in India begins. Then home for Christmas!