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Day trips around the Pokhara Valley make excellent training for a trek, and serve as an effective antidote to lakeside idleness. Excursions generally entail a healthy amount of cycling or hiking, often both. Start early to make the most of the views before the clouds move in and the heat builds - it can get really sticky here in all but the winter months - and bring lunch and a full water bottle. If you're feeling adventurous (or running behind schedule), you can stay overnight at Sarangkot, Tashi Palkhel or Begnas Tal. Many of the ethnic groups that make treks north of Pokhara so popular - Gurungs, Magars, and Baahun and Chhetri Hindu castes - are equally well represented around the valley, and less touched by tourism here. In addition, the Tibetan settlements in the area are less commercial, and in their own way more instructive about Tibetan culture, than those in the Kathmandu Valley. There are worthwhile things to see in just about every direction from Pokhara
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