The bus from Pokhara to Kathmandu at the moment is not for the faint hearted with almost the entire two hundred kilometers of road in really bad condition due to disrepair as well as it being under reconstruction. The journey used to take six hours, it now takes closer to twelve.
Added to the bumpy slow pace there's landslides, traffic jams with many large vehicles on narrow stretches causing congestion and the trip might test your patience. I was pretty glad it was over.
There were three or four stops along the way with lunch of curry and rice being really good value at one of them. It's all part of the travel experience of course, but some days you'd rather not have to go through Himalayan bus marathons like these.
Fortunately many of the tourists busses now have very comfortable lounge chairs which makes travel more bearable, but when you're crawling along for almost twelve hours being thrown about with someone on the same bus with stomach problems...
8 сен 2024