Lumbini-Buddha's Birthplace
Trip Start
Apr 22, 2011
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Trip End
Jul 08, 2011
Lumbini, Nepal
Friday, June 17, 2011
Day 58
I had a good night sleep, got up and started to walk around the first city in Nepal, but after a few minutes I reached the end of it and couldn't walk anymore, so I packed my bags and took them on the bus to Lumbini. Lumbini is about an hour drive by bus. It cost less than $1. I ate lunch there and struck a deal to rent a bike and stored my bags for about $3 and went to see the place where Buddha was born. There is a whole complex of temples nearby it with several different countries like Korea, Laos, Thailand and Myammar. Buddha's birthplace was really nothing special. It is just a pillar and monument. That's it. I saw it, then went back to Bharawa, which is the second city in Nepal that I passed on the way to Lumbini. I caught the bus there and someone bought a bus ticket and tried to bring his two goats on the bus, but they said no, so he tried to put them on top of the bus, which was where my bags were, but they had no way of tying the goats down with. I actually think my bags can't get much dirtier after India, even if goats pee or poop on them. I took a bus from there to Bharatapur, which is a four hour bus ride and from there to some gate to the entrance to 'Chitwan National Park.
