66.03 Nepal, Kristi: Anyone for mountain coffee? Perspectives of 'Hotel Le Glamour' and of Sarangkot (peak) from different mountains.

  We think it's useful and enjoyable to view an object from different points. It provides perspectives that give a more complete understanding of the scene. Then again, it might just be one of our quirks. One of us really enjoys the concept. 

  As an aside, the more we explore and wander the greater Pokhara region, the more wonders we discover. At times, we can be like excitable kids ('one of us', particularly, exclaims the other, 'one of us') until the mountain climbs knock us flat. Jen says that's okay as long as we come back fighting. One of us concedes with respect. 

The hotel, in front of Fishtail by many, many miles along the route to Methlang. Sunset is approaching (a bird as well).
Looking at the hotel on the route (way below) from Sarangkot Peak and Tower, a mountain to the west.
Across the lake standing on a different mountain range from that pictured above, at Shanti Stupa, we look across toward Le Glamour, a 3rd perspective.
Jenni walks toward the hotel on the way home to our apartment near Lakeside below.
After a tough climb to a new find, Tower on a 'hill?', the peak of Mattikhan, above Kristi, we view our favorite towering above the tower at bottom left, Sarangkot.
Sarangkot Tower greets the early morning sun (left).
We're standing at Shanti Stupa looking toward Annapurna. We commence the hike to Sarangkot from across Phewa Lake, head past the two high buildings, clear the jungles and thereafter, the villages, arriving at the tower on the peak.
A view of Le Glamour from many miles away: We're standing above the village of Kristi on the peak of Mattikhan.
Another hiking position, another of the hotel and Machapuchhare (Fishtail), returning from Methlang.
Sarangkot from the City at dawn.

Cheers, 

Jenni and Jeffrey

A closer view of Sarangkot Tower as we approach from 20 minutes out. 

We'll get back to you on this local StarYaks' drive-through outlet'...need to do some thinking.

We've got the name, now do we follow through with the concept and business? To brew or not to brew, that is the question, William. It is probably not well known that Starbucks was termed as such because the founders were tickled by the inclusion of 'buck', as in antelope, in the name. While I was never impressed with the concept, often wrong, if nothing else we think we've got the equivalent concept for Asia and specifically, Nepal, plus the appropriate name. We've never held out to be original or smart, goes without saying, but after walking behind yaks as we climbed some mountains in high-altitude-Nepal, we have been inspired by the sights and sites before our eyes (and noses). 

  We are thinking of launching our double expresso which will be sold on the slopes under the name of 'Yak-yak'. A triple expresso will also be available although we have yet to think of a name. 

  We will be able to sell cups of coffee cheaply, providing our customers with an advantage. In the mountains at high altitude, people lack two basics--oxygen and liquid. We will satisfy this need with our product of coffee. Simply expresso...expressed: Partial liquid coffee, plus oxygen pumped into the ingredients which will reduce coffee content (and cost) while filling the product with hot air. What a concept! Yak-yak. 

Our mantra is to provide customers with fresh milk delivered directly to the store. We call it from 'teat to tummy'. No bull...need apply.