After too many days spent in the Kathmandu valley visiting Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Patan I finally decided to leave and go West. Actually South West.
Almost at the border with India. It took me almost 14 hours to get there. But I guess it was worthwhile. I got to Lumpini, Nepal. This is where 2600 years ago lord Buddha was born. When he was born his name was Siddhārtha Gautama, but because of his teachings he became Lord Buddha. The founder of Buddhism, a religion who doesn't even have a G-D. According to the Western standard, I think it is in fact more like a philosophy rather than a religion. Anyways, Lord Buddha was born here. It is an interesting place.
Nothing to do with other holy places like Lourdes, Vatican or Mecca. This is a sleepy Nepali village surrounded by rice fields and where it is really difficult to find a restaurant open and where I counted less than 10 tourists in 1 day. A record! Really a nice feeling.
If you are curious to see how Lumpini looks like here are some pictures. This is the holy site, where Buddha was born and all around you can find people praying and small and big Buddhist temples. There are temple in all the styles. Every country with an interest in Buddhist has been invited to build here a temple, and the styles, of course, are very different. And the nice thing is that this place is not crowded at all ...
And these temples there are all these rice fields and people working them. Very very nice and very relaxing ...
If you have the chance stop here for one day, but be ready ... Lumpini is a religious holy site like you have never seen before ...
After too many days spent in the Kathmandu valley visiting Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Patan I finally decided to leave and go West. Actually South West. Almost at the border with India. It took me almost 14 hours to get there. But I guess it was worthwhile. I got to Lumpini, Nepal. This is where 2600 years ago lord Buddha was born. When he was born his name was Siddhārtha Gautama, but because of his teachings he became Lord Buddha. The founder of Buddhism, a religion who doesn't even have a G-D. According to the Western standard, I think it is in fact more like a philosophy rather than a religion. Anyways, Lord Buddha was born here. It is an interesting place. Nothing to do with other holy places like Lourdes, Vatican or Mecca. This is a sleepy Nepali village surrounded by rice fields and where it is really difficult to find a restaurant open and where I counted less than 10 tourists in 1 day. A record! Really a nice feeling.
If you are curious to see how Lumpini looks like here are some pictures. This is the holy site, where Buddha was born and all around you can find people praying and small and big Buddhist temples. There are temple in all the styles. Every country with an interest in Buddhist has been invited to build here a temple, and the styles, of course, are very different. And the nice thing is that this place is not crowded at all ...
And these temples there are all these rice fields and people working them. Very very nice and very relaxing ...
If you have the chance stop here for one day, but be ready ... Lumpini is a religious holy site like you have never seen before ...
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Hi sounds and looks wonderful! I am going to Nepal soon and I would like to visit Lumpini, could you please give me some information about how to get there from Kathmandu, thank you!
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