Clouds at dawn- fat chance of catching the sunrise, I thought
I am at the sunrise point at Sarangkot, just outside Pokhara in Nepal. Sadly, despite my early start, the viewing platforms and gallery were jam packed with Chinese and Korean tourists, and I had to literally claw my way past a Chinese couple to get a place by the railing. I would have got only the back of several human heads otherwise. I lost some time as it is thinking my guide would join me after parking the car, which he didn't. I lost further time when I rushed expectantlytowards the totally empty viewing gallery on the terrace of the building you see at the right. Sadly, it was a residence (or so it seemed) or a hotel where that terrace was for the hotel guests only). I lost more time there, and was lucky to get a tiny bit of space to hold on. I was beginning to get alarmed by the dense blanket of heavy gog you see at the right. Fat chance of catching the sunrise- my usual luck with mountains, I thought sadly to myself. Happily, these clouds rolled in later- not much later, but a little later, soon after the sunrise shots anyway. Thank goodness for that! (Pokhara, Nepal, Oct/ Nov. 2019)
Clouds at dawn- fat chance of catching the sunrise, I thought
I am at the sunrise point at Sarangkot, just outside Pokhara in Nepal. Sadly, despite my early start, the viewing platforms and gallery were jam packed with Chinese and Korean tourists, and I had to literally claw my way past a Chinese couple to get a place by the railing. I would have got only the back of several human heads otherwise. I lost some time as it is thinking my guide would join me after parking the car, which he didn't. I lost further time when I rushed expectantlytowards the totally empty viewing gallery on the terrace of the building you see at the right. Sadly, it was a residence (or so it seemed) or a hotel where that terrace was for the hotel guests only). I lost more time there, and was lucky to get a tiny bit of space to hold on. I was beginning to get alarmed by the dense blanket of heavy gog you see at the right. Fat chance of catching the sunrise- my usual luck with mountains, I thought sadly to myself. Happily, these clouds rolled in later- not much later, but a little later, soon after the sunrise shots anyway. Thank goodness for that! (Pokhara, Nepal, Oct/ Nov. 2019)