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Top Hotels in Lumbini
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Yeti Hotel Lumbini
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Buddha Maya Garden - Lumbini
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Nirvana Lumbini
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Lumbini Hokke Hotel
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Pawan International Hotel Lumbini
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Lumbini Garden Hotel
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Lumbini
Travel Blogs from Lumbini, Nepal
A tiger under the floorboards
This is a top pick! As a contrast to the mountains, and because I fancied being pampered for a few days, I escaped from the dust and noise of Kathmandu to Chitwan, a national park in the flat terai to the south of the country. My accomodation was wonderful; my very own ...
We miss you already, Nepal!
This is a top pick! ... were feeling great when we got back to Kathmandu on the friday. We had momentum, we had purpose, we were finally leaving Nepal and heading to... Tibet! The tension as we approached the travel agent was palpable. We could smell our impending freedom from ...
Travels with Two Buddhas: Birth
This is a top pick! ... for world peace, called a Monlam in Tibetan. As dawn arrived, we walked through the gates of Lumbini. Soon I found a small room at the Nepal Monastery adjacent to Buddha's birth site. As the sun rose, I entered ...
Bhairahawa, Nepal
This is a top pick! ... a welcome sight with its beautiful manicured gardens and clean tidy rooms. This town is the birthplace of Lord Buddha. 19.9.06 Lumbini, Nepal The day started well although the humidity was very high and my camera lens fogged up as soon as I ...
Rhinosourus
This is a top pick! ... the most famous resident of the village. View the video to find out who! We had a great time in this part of Nepal and made some great friends. Beers frequently drunk by the river by late afternoon whilst watching the locals wash down their ...
Elephants! Rhinos! Polo!
This is a top pick! I have just had an amazing time in Sauraha, which is the main entry point to Royal Chitwan National Park. Getting out of Kathmandu has been so good for my spirit and this location was perfect. I stayed at riverside Hotel www.metateam.nl/riverside which ...
Stifeling Sauraha
This is a top pick! Mate, it was pretty damn hot on arrival...sitting on the bus trying to work out if a walk to our ghouse was feasible when one of the touts at the window asks; "Clare and mark?"....thought we were hearing things, but he tried again... "are you clare and ...
Stuck in Siddharthanagar with the Katmandu blues.
This is a top pick! ... at each other every so often and Nepalese civilians get killed. So nobody is really too happy about either "leadership" body. Nepal is desperate for tourism, and these Maoist antics don't attract too man visitors. About three months ago, a strike ...
India - Highlights and Lowlights......
India hasn't sunk in 100% yet but we have put together a list of our standout highs and lows of this intriguing country. Highlights - Diu (special note for O'Coquiero restaurant), Jaisalmer (La Mystica hotel - thank you Ashraf), camel safari (Abraham!), ...
Om Mani Padme Hum
... the Hiroshima bomb, is also on the site. The sheer size of the whole park is pretty incredible and we spent a good few hours walking around it all. Lumbini town is a pretty unremarkable place but it was a nice and easy start to our time in Nepal. ...
Out of India
... next year or so but it was surprising for India)! Once we finally made it to Sonauli leaving the country and entering Nepal was very unceremonious. Everyone crowding around a table at Indian Immigration, no one really knowing who was being dealt ...
Lumbini - The Town of Dust and Baby Buddha
Well, for a World Heritage site, the birthplace of Buddha and an important stop on a major pilgimage route, Lumbini was a little underwhelming. We arrived after a long but uneventful bus trip from Pokhara, and lodged at one of the few guest houses in the ...
The path to enlightenment
... Outside of the temple lies the sacred pond where Queen Maha Maya bathed before giving birth. The whole area resides in the Lumbini Development Zone, development being the key word as the site is still very much a work in progress. As peaceful ...
I'm not convinced...
...Caught another half scale bus to Bhairawa, then an excruciatingly uncomfortable micro-bus to Lumbini. I checked into a hotel, then went for a walk with a pair of cynical German brothers called Nik and Andy. Lumbini is a massive complex of monasteries, ...
Bhairawa
The bus ride from Kathmandu do the border took much longer due to a strike which blocked the highway. A total of 13 hours on the road where about 5 hours was spent waiting for the strike to clear ...
Terrai
Our last stop in Nepal was the terrai, a very low grassland with all the beasts of Nepal from tigers over rhinos to crocodiles. We arrived after the rafting trip at our hotel and were greeted and seated at the balcony of the little cafe. We were told that ...
Bhairawa
A 17 hour trip on the road. Nearly 10 hours driving with a 7 hour stall where villagers in anger blocked the highway. Usually this trip only takes 9 ...
Chitwan National Park & Lumbini
... komisch aus: Sie haben "zu viel Haut", die sehr kuenstlich, wie aus Plastik, wirkt. Danach waren wir in Lumbini, dem Geburtsort Siddharth Gautamas, "Buddha", der dort etwa 563 v. Chr geboren wurde. Dort gibt es Tempelruinen und einen Stein ...
Birthplace of the Buddha
... paper for us so that we could ask for the right stop and you immediately have a different culture. We like Nepal. Arriving in Lumbini we discovered a tiny place with infrequent electricity and limited eating options, but with a lovely atmosphere of ...
Lumbini..Buddha's Birthplace
We travelled through here on the God awful bus journey from Pokhara to Nepal Ganj..... (wait for it... it was horrendous and that episode is yet to come )!!!! but we didnt stop off this time, just passed through...... as we were here ...
Birthplace of Buddha
Story goes that Buddha's mother bathed is this pool then gave birth to Buddha under a tree. That tree had a temple built around it and eventually the tree got too big and it had to be cut down. They planted another tree on the other side of the ...
Village People
Driving up from Chandruata reminded me a bit of Yeridot Mitzpe a snake like road which in this case was empty because of the strikes, on the way we passed a village called Google or something of the sort which I found funny. At Gorhai we looked for ...
Rhino spotting in Nepal and Buddha's birthplace
... and a rhino, more than we'd hoped to see. And the animals were largely undisturbed by the elephants coming very close. Lumbini Next stop was to be Lumbini: Buddha's birthplace a few bus rides (and 2 breakdowns) away near the Indian ...
A stroll in the Himalaya (part 3)
... with peeling letters – we were told we had to go back to Nepal to get our passports stamped. So we walked back into Nepal. And then back into India, slightly wearier. Bus to Gorakhpur (ghastly), stayed the night in a hotel (hideous), train the ...
Heading South
... and down to earth, all in all a good guy and exactly what I needed after two weeks of mixing with the typical Nepal tourist types. When he started going off on one about 'the f****** idiot tourists in their stupid clothes' and espousing similar views to ...
Lumbini
Our guide said that the drive to Lumbini would take 7 hours, it took 11! It was just 6 of us now going to Nepal and we were meeting our new guide at the boarder. The roads were bad. They were making most of them wider so the traffic was slow. We saw lots ...
Lumbini - Birthplace of the Buddha
... gefahren. In den nachsten Bus von Bhairawa nach Sunauli gestiegen (nur ein paar Kilometer), mein letztes nepalesisches Kleingeld in Mittagessen und Snacks fuer die Fahrt investiert, Exit-Stempel von Nepal geholt und ueber die Grenze nach Indien spaziert. ...