Pokhara day 1

Pokhara lies on an important old trading route between China and India. In the 17th century it was part of the Kingdom of Kaski which was one of the Chaubise Rajya (24 Kingdoms of Nepal, चौबिसे राज्य) ruled by a branch of the Shah Dynasty

Some of the info shared below is from Google

Pix are all mine.

Tucked cozily above India, Nepal has earned the sobriquet, “The Roof of the World”, because of the highest mountain it houses—the daunting, yet beautiful, Mt. Everest.

The Pokhara is best known for the stunning view of the Annapurna range. It is perhaps one of the few places on earth from where mountains above 6,000 m can be seen unobstructed from an altitude of 800 m within the distance of 28 km.

We Started our day early by going in a shared vehicle a (Tata Winger) to do local sight seeing

NR 1000 pp ...and 8 places we visited

65 kms covered today.

With my apprehensions about my motion sickness I held very well...

It was a day well spent ...

The pix below is my pic story of the day...

We were picked up from our hotel at 10am and dropped back at 5.30pm

First halt... Info fm.Google

On 31 July 1961, a Swiss couple went swimming but the woman drowned in a pit because of the overflow. Her body was recovered three days later in river Phusre with great effort. Her father wished to name it "David's falls" after her daughter's name but changed to Devi's Fall.

With the height of 48 meters and length of 1479 meters, Devi's Fall is the deepest cave in the Asia.

A sit out for locals to chill

A wishing well if yr.coin falls at the feet of the Godess statue consider your wish granted.

2 and halt was at Gopeshwar cave

A climb down into earth...

Info from Google

Gupteshwor Mahadev Cave (Nepali गुप्तेश्वर महादेव गुफा) is a cave located in Pokhara-17,Chhorepatan, Kaski district, opposite to Davis Fall, the water from Davis fall passes through this cave. Gupteshwor Mahadev cave is one of the major attractions of Pokhara.[2][3]

https://www.thelongestwayhome.com/travel-guides/nepal/pokhara/gupteshwor-mahadev-cave.html

Do go through the link 👆🏾 for an interesting read up.

that is Pokhra city

3rd stop...

Pumdikot Shiva temple

Info from Wikipedia

Pumdikot is a hill station near Pokhara in Kaski District of Gandaki Province in Nepal. The place has a viewpoint at an altitude of 1,500 meters above sea level, and has the second tallest statue of Shiva in Nepal, after Kailashnath Mahadev Statue.

Height: 108 Feet

4th point...

Peace Pagoda ...

Nepal has two of the eighty peace pagodas in the world: Shanti Stupa in Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha and Shanti Stupa in Pokhara.

1100 meters

The Shanti Stupa Pokhara, also known as World Peace Pagoda Pokhara, is situated on top of Ananda hill. Located at a height of 1100 meters, the Pokhara Shanti Stupa is the first World Peace Pagoda of Nepal.

Lunch at a garden restaurant

Neppali Tattali

5th stop at Seti river which gets its water from Annapoorna glacier...water is actually white and in olden days Gorkhas used to sprinkle the water on themselves and drink the water and then consider their sins washed...

The Seti Gandaki

The Seti Gandaki is the main river flowing through the city. The Seti Gandaki (White Gandaki) and its tributaries have created several gorges and canyons in and around Pokhara that give intriguingly long sections of terrace features to the city and surrounding areas.

The river is also famous because it is close to some Holy places and is the central point of many stories of Hindu mythology, such as the Mahabharata, one of longest books of Hinduism, written by Vyasa, who was born near the confluence of the Gandaki and Madi rivers near Damauli, Tanahun, Nepal.

6th stop

Mahendra caves houses a natural rock formation of Lord Ganesha deep into the bosom if Mother Earth.

the lord Ganesha a natural rock formation

inside the caves

Info fm.Google

This cave was discovered in the 1950’s by shepherds of Pokhara. The old name of the cave was ‘Adhero Bhawan’ which literally means Dark Habitat. The cave got its name from Late King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, the then ruler of the country, who immediately visited the place after he read about it in the Newari language newspaper.^[4] The cave was named Mahendra after it was officially inaugurated by the then King Mahendra.^[5] The cave got rapid attraction after the royal visit and since then it has remained one of the most visited places in Pokhara.^[6] It was first properly surveyed in 1976 by a small team of speleologists from the UK including Jane Wilson-Howarth who documented the animals that lived in the dark zone of the cave.^[7] Copies of the expedition report are lodged with the UK copyright libraries and at the Royal Geographical Society.

Final stop of the day...

Bindyabasini temple

Bindhyabasini is considered as one of the main and foremost Shaktipiths of western Nepal. Situated at a small hill-lock in between the main old market and Bagar it is at a height of 3000 ft. above from the sea level.

Bindhyabasini, one of the oldest temples in the Pokhara valley, has an immense cultural value. The temple is dedicated to Goddess Bhagawati. Bhagavati is a popular deity - also in the Indian states of Kerala, Goa and Konkan. It can be used to refer any of the Hindu goddesses like Durga, Kannaki, Parvati, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Kali. In Goa, Bhagavati generally refers to the Mahishasurmardini form of Shakti.