pokhara-Nepal

隔天离开Kathmandu搭上前往pokhara巴士，7个小时的山路，车上满座，一个坐在我前座的男人还带上一条狗。坐在我隔壁的是一个小卷发外国女生，说的不知道是哪一国的语言，她和身后3个男女是一伙的。一路上我们都没交谈，她不时的往后转，和她几个朋友聊天。其他的时间，只见她一直把手提电脑搬出来收进去，我不知道她在看什么。有段时间她在听歌，大半时间她在整理她的裤子和玩弄头发，像个缺乏安全感的过动儿。中途停放午餐时间我偷瞄了隔壁桌的小卷发和她的朋友，他们一共4人，里面有两个超高的男生，其中一个至少有190公分，手臂两旁都是刺青，除了我隔壁小卷发的女生以外，还有一位中年女人。中年女人上车之前还一直跟同车的小狗玩。
车开了一会儿，前面座的小狗钻到我脚下来了。7个小时的车程，有只这么可爱的小东西陪伴，幸福啊～我又偷瞄隔壁的小卷发，她长得还蛮漂亮的，中份长刘海札了彩色辫子，衣着很有个人特色，而且好像都不怕冷，我已经外套加围巾，她也只是一件单衣。
巴士开进了市区，心想应该也快到了，果然不久巴士就停下了，小卷发和她的朋友下车，可大部分人还待在车上，我正纠结着要不要也下车这时巴士却开走了，还好最后停在总巴士站。

I left Kathmandu the next day and headed to pokhara. It was a 7 hours bus ride. The bus was packed with passengers. A guy was sitting in front of me with his dog and beside me was a foreign young lady with short perm hair speaking in her own language. We did not communicate throughout the whole journey but she turned around occasionally to chat with her 3 friends who were seated behind her. For the rest of the time, she was taking out and putting in her laptop and I had no idea what she was watching on it. There is a period of time she was listening to music and spent most of the time tidying her pants and playing with her hair. During lunch break, I stole glimpses of the short perm hair foreign young lady and her 3 friends, of which 2 were tall guys and one was at least 190cm tall. He has tattoos on both arms. The other person in her group is a middle aged lady. She was playing with the dog before boarding the bus.

The little doggy came up to my feet when the bus set off a while ago…I felt happy to have a little thing as my companion during the 7hours bus ride. I peeped at the young lady again..She has bangs, look pleasant and dress fashionably. I can tell that she is not afraid of cold, wearing just a top whereas I have a jacket and a scarf on. The bus reached the city area and I guess we should be reaching our destination anytime and true enough, the bus stopped, the young lady and her friends alighted but most of the passengers remain seated. I was hesitating if I should alight but the bus moved at this moment but lucky it stopped at the bus interchange.

聘了计程车去湖边，当车子渐渐驶近湖边，看见很多靠湖的商店外挂满彩色的物品，点缀了美丽寂静的湖。到酒店的时候已经是下午两点了，check in了房间，丢下背包马上就跑下楼去牵我租的脚踏车，拿着柜台给的pokhara地图骑去湖边，喜欢这里的房子，不管多简陋总会给漆上鲜艳的色彩，一间间看起来就像糖果屋一样诱人。
我骑到湖的东边，这里的店铺没湖中区的繁密，稀疏的建在湖的各一角，更显得脱俗。我选了一家向湖的cafe，坐下来点了一壶咖啡看书，再抬起头的时候，两个小时已经过去了。打量四周发现只有我一人，我把脚收起来抱着腿，望向湖，有人三三两两在散步，狗在追，有个貌似苦行僧的人在草原中打坐，悠哉游哉的。。我打算今天就逛逛书店，地摊，看看画，到处拍照打发一天。。

I hired a taxi to bring me to the lake and as the taxi drove closer to the lake, I saw many colourful display stuffs hanging outside the shops and all these embellish the beautiful quiet lake. When I reached the hotel, it was about 2pm. I check in, threw my backpack and ran downstairs to the counter to fetch a copy of pokhara map, hopped onto the cab to go to the lake. I like the houses here, no matter how crude it looks, all the colours make it look like a candy house and it is very attractive!

I rode to the east side of the lake, the shops here were much lesser those in the central. I chose a café facing the lake, sat down, ordered a pot of coffee and started reading my book. When I looked up, 2 hours had passed. I looked around and realized I’m the only one in the café. I put up my legs and hugged them, faced the lake and saw a few people were jogging, dog was running around, a man mediating on the green pasture. I decided to spend my day at the bookshop, looked at drawings and taking photographs…

待续……

To be continued….