Lumbini will be a wonderful place in 30 years. Now it's only a bunch of temples being constructed in a huge green area, where you can also find a small, desperately no-men's-land-like village. That's the truth. We went there after a very long trip from Pokhara (as always, all the so-called "tourist buses, which are horrible, leave at around 6am. Getting up early is becoming a habit around here ;)
Anyway we had a long, hard trip (again), and then arrived in a place close to Sunauli (Indian border), from which we took a bus... and traveled in the rooftop... which requires some special skills, but ends up being more pleasant than going inside, since the heat and the many stops don't come along very well together.
Lumbini Bazar is a village made of only one street. There you can find a couple of hotels (all same, but all with extremely different prices) and only one restaurant, where you can't complain about the mixed-up orders or the slow service, since there's no concurrence.
But well, in Lumbini you have the "exact birthplace of Buddha", so they say, so there's a reason to stop by for one day, but not more...
Anyway we had a long, hard trip (again), and then arrived in a place close to Sunauli (Indian border), from which we took a bus... and traveled in the rooftop... which requires some special skills, but ends up being more pleasant than going inside, since the heat and the many stops don't come along very well together.
Lumbini Bazar is a village made of only one street. There you can find a couple of hotels (all same, but all with extremely different prices) and only one restaurant, where you can't complain about the mixed-up orders or the slow service, since there's no concurrence.
But well, in Lumbini you have the "exact birthplace of Buddha", so they say, so there's a reason to stop by for one day, but not more...
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