People says ..................

Pokhara looked like a town of villas at home, the site being chosen for the beauty of its natural scenery. Bamboo-covered ravines, flower-roofed heights, rich in green foliage, picturesque because of rushing and winding streams, itself set in the midst of high mountains. Such were the characteristic features of Pokhara … In all my travels in the Himalayas I saw no scenery so enchanting as the which enraptured me at Pokhara.

Ekai Kawaguchi
Three years in Tibet
1909, pp. 42, 43

There is too almost underlying, this great centre of mountain, a town and a mart which always attracted my curiosity almost beyond any other town in Nepal. No one has been there, no one has seen it, but we know that its climates almost tropical, that it can not be more than 2500 feet in altitude, that it is on the bank of great lake, and that it is an open an open valley and lies immediately at the foot of these magnificent giants Annapurna Himal. Phewa Tal is the name of the lake and Pokhara that of the town. Some day and from somewhere someone will arise who will do adequate justice to what must be one of the most impressive and beautiful sights to be found in any mountain country.

Brig Gen. Charles G. Bruce,
The Land of Gurkhas by W. Brook Northey
Cambridge, 1937, p.4