So after a fun 17hour train ride, Jo and I are back again in the lovely, clean, beautiful smelling, friendly city of Delhi. Oh what fun times are to be had! Where shall we start?
Oh no! What was I thinking?! We fly out tomorrow morning at 6am! Bugger!
Oh how sad)o; We will have to leave Delhi until next time after all.
On a brighter note though, we're off to Germany!
Yay for meat
Yay for cleanliness
Yay for set prices
Yay for beer
Yay for Jo's relatives
Yay for Germans
Yay for not being India!
Dec 1, 2007
Nov 30, 2007
Lumbini
We planned on a day in Lumbini before heading for India to do Varanassi.
So we made it to Lumbini from Pohara as planned and all was well. We were going to stay for an afternoon and then push on. But in the end we decided there was no point in rushing from place to place and not really seeing anything and so we would stay in Lumbini overnight and leave the next morning for Delhi; skipping Varanassi. Or leaving it till next time anyway.
During the day we visited all the sites and discovered a day was plenty. Monastaries and a rock (marker of buddha's birth place) can only hold so much appeal. The best thing we saw was a big tree and to top things off, there were literally two choices of food on the menu; dal baht and chow mein. Yay. There was also a stone chimney and some awesome signage...
Really!
(pic of stupa)
So next morning we set off with a french and an Irish guy we'd met, only to discover there was a 'strike' going on for all vehicles in Nepal. Huh? we were then told the roads were broken. what? all of them? Turns out the maoists had blocked all the roads for some stupid reason (we are not fans of them after the trek) and so we couldn't leave! arrrrgggghhhh! they're nothing but trouble that lot!
So we had to stay another day. Not too bad as we just relaxed and played cards in the end. There was also a prayer festival in town starting that day with Lama Rinpoche in town so we went and saw him (he's 3rd 'in charge' after the Dalai lama and Penchan Lama for Tibet) and enjoyed some tibetan foods for a change. Tibetan dough balls were great. Filling and great in fact.
So we made it to Lumbini from Pohara as planned and all was well. We were going to stay for an afternoon and then push on. But in the end we decided there was no point in rushing from place to place and not really seeing anything and so we would stay in Lumbini overnight and leave the next morning for Delhi; skipping Varanassi. Or leaving it till next time anyway.
During the day we visited all the sites and discovered a day was plenty. Monastaries and a rock (marker of buddha's birth place) can only hold so much appeal. The best thing we saw was a big tree and to top things off, there were literally two choices of food on the menu; dal baht and chow mein. Yay. There was also a stone chimney and some awesome signage...
Really!
(pic of stupa)
So next morning we set off with a french and an Irish guy we'd met, only to discover there was a 'strike' going on for all vehicles in Nepal. Huh? we were then told the roads were broken. what? all of them? Turns out the maoists had blocked all the roads for some stupid reason (we are not fans of them after the trek) and so we couldn't leave! arrrrgggghhhh! they're nothing but trouble that lot!
So we had to stay another day. Not too bad as we just relaxed and played cards in the end. There was also a prayer festival in town starting that day with Lama Rinpoche in town so we went and saw him (he's 3rd 'in charge' after the Dalai lama and Penchan Lama for Tibet) and enjoyed some tibetan foods for a change. Tibetan dough balls were great. Filling and great in fact.
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