After leaving Kuching we took our first internal flight into Miri – after buses and trains throughout the rest of our trip, flying is a real luxury. Lucky for us flights are super cheap within SE Asia … though I have to wonder what has happened to cheap flights within America … how come we can’t manage this? We even got a drink and snack onboard the 40 minute flight. In any case we arrived in Miri and after quite…
After our rather taxing Himalayan mountain trek, we needed some time for R&R. We chose to stay a week in Pokhara, a fairly quiet tourist town in central Nepal where people leave to start their trek on the Annapurna circuit. Nothing that ambitious for us, though. We had some vague notions of day hikes or other activities, but soon after arriving, my leg got quite sore and it was all I could manage to limp out of the hotel room…