Boudhanath Kathmandu

The wake up was early, to get to the domestic airport in time for our Mountain Flight, a 1 hour ride over the Himalayas where we would fly by Everest and a few other big name peaks. The cab taken from the hotel was much better than the junk we rode from the airport the previous day.

The domestic airport was even smaller and reminded one …

*The motto of Kathmandu city

Day 1 (Kathmandu)

The first day of my RTW trip was quite adventerous. I was going to take connecting flights via Sharjah, UEA and the transit time was 1 hour. Somehow, the first flight delayed for 50 minutes and I got quite nervous, worrying about whether I would be able to catch the next flight or not …

Days in Pohkara seemed to be going fast so I decided to leave a day earlier with my Indian friend Sean and head back to Kathmandu to explore somemore. It was a great decision as we got to see alot, did more shopping, ahhh I really can't stop so many beautiful things to buy. I will have to post home some old clothes when I am in Europe. My bag is …

Today the weather didn't promise anything good so I used the whole morning for private purposes only; photography and sightseeing are nice and all, but sometimes you just need to take a seat and have a slice of chocolate cake with a caffe macchiato. I usually refuse to have Italian food outside Italy (try local food you donkey) but I was feeling a …

When I was visiting that Sakya monastery in Pokhara, I was informed that it had just been consecrated just two weeks before by His Holiness Sakya Trizin Rinpoche, the head of that lineage. Shucks, can't win em all. Besides, there were 10,000 people there for the event. I probably couldn't have gotten in on such late notice.

I'm certainly …

We had originally wanted to visit Nepal but decided we wouldn't have enough time only to eventually alter our plans at the last minute in order to do so. We are extremely happy we did and as we only had 5 nights, we would love to come back to Nepal one day and see more of it. Given the limited time we made a rough plan to view as much as we could …

This is now my 3rd time here but first chance to explore. I'm staying in Thamel which is the main tourist area and is filled with shops selling woolly hats, scarves, jumpers etc for the hills. Millions of felt items, prayer flags, maps, postcards, book shops, tea shops and lots of western restaurants and cafes... What a choice after a month of …

Imagine the heaviest monsoony rain you have ever seen in your life. Add in whirling dust storms, non-stop thunder and utterly mental lightning, streetlights with no electricity, trucks on the wrong side of the road with 1 or no lights. drunk people stumbling in the middle of a main road, a jeep with no seatbelt and, for those of you who've been …

This morning I woke at 3:00 a.m., completely convinced it was 5:00 a.m., and couldn't get back to sleep. I discovered soon after that there was a thermos full of clean, safe drinking water next to my bed--my favorite discovery in recent history! I gulped it down with absolute relish, then watched Nepali/Hindi television until feeling inspired at 4: …

... squat toilets... not a fan. It was a sort of backfired, uneventful day otherwise. Ranu & I were set to visit the Boudhanath Stupa after she was done with the day's language training class, one of Tibetan Buddhism's holiest sights.  For anyone ...

... felt very uncomfortable being their as families were saying goodbye to there loved ones.  We also visited Boudhanath one of the holiest Buddhist sites in all of Nepal, it contained the largest ancient stupa in the whole of the world, and if you ...

... fully developed entry) Friday: Day off work.  We all walked enmasse to the one main landmark I still hadn't seen, Boudhanath Stupa, the largest such shrine outside of Tibet and home to the world's largest Tibetan refugee community. A severe ...

... and lots of people selling Nepalese artwork and puppets. From there we headed out of the main city to Boudhanath, the biggest Stupa in Nepal - it really is beautiful - a huge stupa rising out of the city with colourful flags hanging all ...

... , and the caste system is one of the grossest mistruths. A short walk in the rain later, I arrived at Boudhanath, an immense stupa, a manifest mandala of Kalachakra, surrounded by another vibrant Tibetan community. Many monasteries and temples are ...

... in Nepal being very lazy. Yesterday we went to the Ghats where the bodies are cremated and we also visited the Tibetan Boudhanath Stupa. All very interesting. We didn't really know what to expect at the cremations, but it was all very dignified and ...

... , but only had one answer. He answered with one word: "Naturally." Thus, naturally, the Dharma Sessions ended at Boudhanath. Naturally, I said "goodbye" to everyone I had met. Naturally, life continued and I left Kathmandu after a night of fireworks ...

... friend of Erin Weston. Ganesh did a superb job as guide, taking me to visit the most important sites surrounding Kathmandu including Boudhanath (home to at least 29 Buddhist Monasteries and Nunneries & one of the largest Buddhist stupas in the ...

... just finished their own tour through tibet and were in the company of many of the people that had shared their van to nepal. we arrived back in kathmandu on the evening of greg's 30th birthday and were happy to be able to join in the festivities. our ...

... Kong, eaten at the airport and then again on the plane. Sarah spent part of her gap year at a school in Nepal and we were staying in Kathmandu with the family of the former head teacher, Mahash.  Mahesh has recently moved to the U.K to study, ...