After a delicious breakfast of buckwheat pancakes with banana and chocolate, we got back in the bus to go to Lumbini. It is about an hour drive from where we stayed last night.
Nepal has 1,200 temples and some even date back 2,000 years. Lumbini claim to fame is that it is the birthplace of Buddha. Our first stop today is the temple of the mother of the lord Buddha.
Nepal is significantly quieter, nicer, and more calm than India. The constant honking in India blew my eardrums and I bet I lost hearing there. Literally every car, motorcycle and rickshaw is constantly honking to let you know they want by you or are passing you or are just honking to honk. Nepal has a lot less cars on the road, the people are nicer thus far and much prettier. They are darker and look more Asian than Indians. There's been tons of open spaces and grass to look at instead of buildings and dirt of India. Albeit, most of the roads in Nepal are single lane for two directions of traffic. How it works is a mystery.
In Lumbini, we visited the birth site of the lord Buddha. It is located in a UNESCO world heritage location. It smells like fresh flowers and is super tranquil. There is over 300 monasteries in this area alone. The story goes, as butchered by me, that Buddhas mother was visiting her parents when she decided to head home. Half way home she started to give birth. She came upon this place, had a holy shower theN gave birth standing while holding a tree. Apparently she had a 10 month pregnancy as well. Lord Buddha did not found Buddhism until he was 35. He was born into a superbly wealthy Indian family. He founded it upon researching all different religions. As such, Buddhism has five tenants. There is a beautiful stone carving of it outside of the temple.
Fun fact: the Nepal prayer flags have five colours for the five elements of a human - wind, fire, water, soil and ether. Blue is not sky, it is water if anyone is playing trivia. Green is sky.
From this temple we drove about 5 hours to Royal Chitwan National Park for our Homestay.
AFN
Nepal has 1,200 temples and some even date back 2,000 years. Lumbini claim to fame is that it is the birthplace of Buddha. Our first stop today is the temple of the mother of the lord Buddha.
Nepal is significantly quieter, nicer, and more calm than India. The constant honking in India blew my eardrums and I bet I lost hearing there. Literally every car, motorcycle and rickshaw is constantly honking to let you know they want by you or are passing you or are just honking to honk. Nepal has a lot less cars on the road, the people are nicer thus far and much prettier. They are darker and look more Asian than Indians. There's been tons of open spaces and grass to look at instead of buildings and dirt of India. Albeit, most of the roads in Nepal are single lane for two directions of traffic. How it works is a mystery.
In Lumbini, we visited the birth site of the lord Buddha. It is located in a UNESCO world heritage location. It smells like fresh flowers and is super tranquil. There is over 300 monasteries in this area alone. The story goes, as butchered by me, that Buddhas mother was visiting her parents when she decided to head home. Half way home she started to give birth. She came upon this place, had a holy shower theN gave birth standing while holding a tree. Apparently she had a 10 month pregnancy as well. Lord Buddha did not found Buddhism until he was 35. He was born into a superbly wealthy Indian family. He founded it upon researching all different religions. As such, Buddhism has five tenants. There is a beautiful stone carving of it outside of the temple.
Fun fact: the Nepal prayer flags have five colours for the five elements of a human - wind, fire, water, soil and ether. Blue is not sky, it is water if anyone is playing trivia. Green is sky.
From this temple we drove about 5 hours to Royal Chitwan National Park for our Homestay.
AFN
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