23/3/11
Lumbini, the supposed birthplace of Buddha. This is a day trip away from Bhairawa and is well worth the visit, it is one of four sites connected with buddha, unfortunately we were too tired to go to either of the other two that were within a day trip of our journey. Next time, when I do the north east!
We set off early catching a public bus...and get us paying the public price of 40rs...we know this because we watched other members of the public paying and just handed our exact amount over...I also saw the conductor trying to get 60rs out of the other tourists. Its a lot easier to haggle when you know what the price is meant to be.
This was probably my favorite bus journey as we were not in a rush and could enjoy the hilarity of the bus moving no more than 1km before stopping and sitting for about 30mins honking the horn continuously until it filled up. We also met a polish film crew who were following a guy who set up and orphanage in Kathmandu...one of them offered us some indian 'white snuff'. We declined as are happy enough with life as it is at the moment.
Lumbini was lovely, temples are dotted around...it is quite spread out. We went to the Maya Devi temple which is where buddha's mother Maya is said to have had a swim in the pool, then grabbed a tree and given birth, althought they are working on the site and gardens it was still very peacful. We spoke to a random monk in an adjacent temple who seemed very excited that we might be scottish. After this we went for a long walk...alicia was hot and therefore grumpy...she is able to make this known quite easily! We only visited a couple more temples before deciding to take a rickshaw. We went out to the peace pagoda.
On the way we saw to my great excitement, two Cranes!!! not the machines but the massive birds!!!! They were awesome. We also noted that alll cows in Lumbini have pet birds.
Peace pagodas are my favorite, they are massive and just really calm and breezy, look spectacular in the sunshine and feel good under your toes. I prefer them to Temples.
This was our last wonderful day in Nepal. I loved it and will come back and climb everest one day. Alicia says 'I'm going to be the first person to climb Mt' Everest AND go to the moon' also 'once you've climbed mount everest everything else looks like a pea'.
My least favorite thing abut Nepal is the rubbish and pollution.
My most favorite are the mountains and the animals and the peace pagodas and the people.
Goodbye Nepal xxxxxx
Lumbini, the supposed birthplace of Buddha. This is a day trip away from Bhairawa and is well worth the visit, it is one of four sites connected with buddha, unfortunately we were too tired to go to either of the other two that were within a day trip of our journey. Next time, when I do the north east!
We set off early catching a public bus...and get us paying the public price of 40rs...we know this because we watched other members of the public paying and just handed our exact amount over...I also saw the conductor trying to get 60rs out of the other tourists. Its a lot easier to haggle when you know what the price is meant to be.
This was probably my favorite bus journey as we were not in a rush and could enjoy the hilarity of the bus moving no more than 1km before stopping and sitting for about 30mins honking the horn continuously until it filled up. We also met a polish film crew who were following a guy who set up and orphanage in Kathmandu...one of them offered us some indian 'white snuff'. We declined as are happy enough with life as it is at the moment.
Lumbini was lovely, temples are dotted around...it is quite spread out. We went to the Maya Devi temple which is where buddha's mother Maya is said to have had a swim in the pool, then grabbed a tree and given birth, althought they are working on the site and gardens it was still very peacful. We spoke to a random monk in an adjacent temple who seemed very excited that we might be scottish. After this we went for a long walk...alicia was hot and therefore grumpy...she is able to make this known quite easily! We only visited a couple more temples before deciding to take a rickshaw. We went out to the peace pagoda.
On the way we saw to my great excitement, two Cranes!!! not the machines but the massive birds!!!! They were awesome. We also noted that alll cows in Lumbini have pet birds.
Peace pagodas are my favorite, they are massive and just really calm and breezy, look spectacular in the sunshine and feel good under your toes. I prefer them to Temples.
This was our last wonderful day in Nepal. I loved it and will come back and climb everest one day. Alicia says 'I'm going to be the first person to climb Mt' Everest AND go to the moon' also 'once you've climbed mount everest everything else looks like a pea'.
My least favorite thing abut Nepal is the rubbish and pollution.
My most favorite are the mountains and the animals and the peace pagodas and the people.
Goodbye Nepal xxxxxx
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