Welcome back to the riverside...

I couldn’t take the heat of Bhairahawa anymore, so I decided to hit the green hill paradise of Nepal, Pokhara. After a seven hour long journey with one of my friends, Sandy, I was welcomed to their home by Don and Homy. The whole week I spent here was great. If I untie the bag of stories I have from here, it won’t finish till next summer vacation. So let’s cut it short.

Fewa taal.

This is the area where I stayed with Don in his house. It is one of the main tourist attractions of Pokhara and we did boating here a couple of times. After my arrival, I was shortly joined by PP and Dilipo-Filipo. We did boating the whole afternoon, shooting photos and enjoying several snacks throughout.

Power house.

This is not exactly a tourist attraction, but it is a beautiful place to spend some private time. We were showered by the rain half way there, making everything around us as green as ever. We took shelter in a small hut where me and the guys enjoyed a little rain dance.

Davis falls.

I was fortunate to visit this place as I didn’t get a chance to visit this place last time. This time we were accompanied by a crowd of ten and Don was the tour guide. The place was named after the person who fell into the falls…myth or truth, I don’t know. There was a little wishing well at the exit. Although I didn’t believe in that stuff, I flipped a coin just for luck.

Forestry campus.The forestry campus is one place where you can see the “white” river of Pokhara plus, where you find some interesting wildlife. I went there to meet my best friend’s brother, Vivek. It was nice meeting him after a long time and he gave me some post cards.

Manipal Medical College.

The only place where other Maldivians were rumoured to be studying in Nepal was this place. We met our old Biochemistry teacher, who gave us a tour of the place. It was humungus and had better facilities than our own college. What it didn't have was students who respected their teachers and hot girls!

Apart from visiting all these cool places, we played basket ball every evening. We also saw a movie in the theatre, Kites, which I didn’t find that interesting or that boring. I also had diarrhoea for a day and enjoyed a night at the rooftop at my Homy’s place looking at the mountain tops gleaming in silver in the moonlight.

And now, I’m back in Bhairahawa again, and like someone said, time to become a nerd again!

Alone in hell...

After the guys left, I was one of the three seniors staying in the hostel apart from the juniors. I had huge plans for the remaining 14 days. So I started off with cleaning my room. Boy that was hard work. I upturned all the beds and pulled away the cupboards while cursing the worker who cleans the room. It was so dirty! I sprayed all the little bugs and chased a little mouse out of the room that had made his home inside my room partner’s old shoes. I finished cleaning in 3 hours and took a shower. It was almost 3 in the afternoon and the sun was scorching hot.

The temperature was around 45 degrees and I felt drained. I settled on my bed and immediately fell asleep. When I walk up, I was drenched in sweat. It was around 7 in the evening and yet there was no light and no change in the temperature. The heat added to my boiling temper.

The same night, around 12 midnight, a “helicopter” entered my room and I had to search for him for an hour before I could sleep again. (Helicopter is the name I gave to a big beetle that represents a dung beetle but is in golden yellow color. He’s extremely noisy and loves crawling under dark places which are extremely narrow.)The horrible one day alone in the hostel changed my mind and I had a change of plans…I headed towards Pokhara.