Three days ago there was a great storm at dusk. It had rained hard all day, but as the light drew in a great sheet of lightening illuminated the whole city and then plunged it into power-cut blackness. Pokhara is surrounded by hills so the rolls of thunder echoed round the valley. The storm continued to rage for over an hour before it gradually took it's wrath elsewhere
The next morning....
Mountains!!!!! :-) We woke to see towering, icy summits where there was only cloud before. The 6000 m Machapuchare rises in an impossibly steep cone whose summit is only 30 m as the crow flies behind the city. The still greater peaks of Annapurna make up the backdrop behind.
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