Christmas Day! Well what can I say, we had the most eventful day filled with its highs and lows haha. The morning started off great; we all enjoyed our first sleep in, went to a lovely cafe for a big breakfast, and then headed off to find a place to hire bikes and scooters. After finding a place that hired out both, us S.W.A.P. girls jumped on a scooter each and Brandon a motorbike and we set off for Sarangkot, a mountain which is 
well-known in Pokhara for its spectacular views of the Himalaya’s. After 15-20 minutes into our trip, we looked back to find Steph missing. After pulling over Brandon offered to turn around and go find her whilst Monique and I waited on the side of the road. About 20 minutes after Brandon turned around to track Steph down, he returned saying her bike had broken down. Ke garne? (What to do?) So the three of us went back to where Steph was stranded to see if we could get her bike started. At first we thought she’d had run out of petrol as even though we had paid for petrol at the place we hired the scooters from, we didn’t see the man actually put it in, and let’s face it, this IS Nepal and these things definitely do happen! So after we all decided it must be the fuel, Brandon and Monique rode off to the nearest petrol station to buy petrol. Once they’d gotten there the guy refused to sell them petrol in a bottle, even after they’d explained we had broken down and that’s why we needed it! So after that failed attempt to get fuel, a taxi driver pulled over and asked us if we needed help. YAY! After screaming YES he pulled over and showed us how to drain fuel from Brandon’s bike and put it into Steph’s. Once he’d driven off we gave it ago, and after opening Steph’s fuel tank realised her tank was already full of petrol! We obviously should’ve checked that in the first place haha but when you’re stuck on the side of the road with a broken down scooter on Christmas day, your mind can forget about simple things like that! So after the failed fuel efforts, two Nepali gentlemen were walking past and offered to help (we were coming across very friendly Nepalese people out in Pokhara!). After they had checked over the scooter they called the local mechanic to come and have a look for us. Once he’d arrived and tampered around with it for another 20 minutes and finally he got it started! YAY! We were back on the road, 2 hours later haha. After all the drama we thought it’d be best to take the bikes back, talk to the guy, and try and get our money back. We reached the hire place and after explaining to the guy what had happened, he simply said it wasn’t his problem the scooter had broken down as he’d actually gotten the scooter off another hire place. And since it wasn’t his problem, he wasn’t willing to give us any of our money back! Ah only in Nepal...haha. So we left the hire place and decided to put the day’s events behind us, it’s Christmas after all and we still had all evening to celebrate! We went back to the guest house, freshened up, and then headed out for another night of good food and great live music. So all in all we had an eventful day and a great night, what an awesome way to spend Christmas!
well-known in Pokhara for its spectacular views of the Himalaya’s. After 15-20 minutes into our trip, we looked back to find Steph missing. After pulling over Brandon offered to turn around and go find her whilst Monique and I waited on the side of the road. About 20 minutes after Brandon turned around to track Steph down, he returned saying her bike had broken down. Ke garne? (What to do?) So the three of us went back to where Steph was stranded to see if we could get her bike started. At first we thought she’d had run out of petrol as even though we had paid for petrol at the place we hired the scooters from, we didn’t see the man actually put it in, and let’s face it, this IS Nepal and these things definitely do happen! So after we all decided it must be the fuel, Brandon and Monique rode off to the nearest petrol station to buy petrol. Once they’d gotten there the guy refused to sell them petrol in a bottle, even after they’d explained we had broken down and that’s why we needed it! So after that failed attempt to get fuel, a taxi driver pulled over and asked us if we needed help. YAY! After screaming YES he pulled over and showed us how to drain fuel from Brandon’s bike and put it into Steph’s. Once he’d driven off we gave it ago, and after opening Steph’s fuel tank realised her tank was already full of petrol! We obviously should’ve checked that in the first place haha but when you’re stuck on the side of the road with a broken down scooter on Christmas day, your mind can forget about simple things like that! So after the failed fuel efforts, two Nepali gentlemen were walking past and offered to help (we were coming across very friendly Nepalese people out in Pokhara!). After they had checked over the scooter they called the local mechanic to come and have a look for us. Once he’d arrived and tampered around with it for another 20 minutes and finally he got it started! YAY! We were back on the road, 2 hours later haha. After all the drama we thought it’d be best to take the bikes back, talk to the guy, and try and get our money back. We reached the hire place and after explaining to the guy what had happened, he simply said it wasn’t his problem the scooter had broken down as he’d actually gotten the scooter off another hire place. And since it wasn’t his problem, he wasn’t willing to give us any of our money back! Ah only in Nepal...haha. So we left the hire place and decided to put the day’s events behind us, it’s Christmas after all and we still had all evening to celebrate! We went back to the guest house, freshened up, and then headed out for another night of good food and great live music. So all in all we had an eventful day and a great night, what an awesome way to spend Christmas!
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