Hotel Aquamarine Kathmandu

New Baneshwor Kathmandu, Nepal

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A travel blog entry by douwel

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Het op tijd wegkomen met een grote groep is geen vanzelfsprekendheid. Dat gaan we morgen anders aanpakken! De jetlag is nog wel nadrukkelijk aanwezig in de ochtend waardoor de jeugd gewoon weer inslaapt na de wake up call. Het doel van vandaag is de Buddha academy. Op dit internaat zitten 600 kinderen waarvan zo'n 400 wezen en andere ontheemden. We werden ontvangen door de directeur en zijn vrouw. Ook was er een ontmoeting met het sponsorkind van de familie Bollweg. Geen ...

Day 1: Kathmandu

A travel blog entry by williampotter

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... family in row 5. Thankfully, the patient recovers without another drama or diversion and we are able to proceed to Kathmandu. On the left is a jagged white horizon of Himalayan peaks, none of which I can identify as Everest.

It's the tailend of Nepal Tourism Year, with the slogan 'Once is not enough' and, indeed, this is my third visit to Nepal and third in the safe hands of my trusty guide Nar, who over ...

Heading to Bodhgaya

A travel blog entry by jonpoland

... the hell out of) and potentially little or no CGI. The rest is just finding the right location.

Today is my last full day in Boudha. I spent three weeks here and for the most part it’s been a good place to acclimate. I love circumambulating the Stupa every day. The roads to the Stupa are largely blocked off to traffic and I’m staying close-enough to the Stupa that I hardly ever hear any traffic, which has ...

I meet the Buddha - Part II

A travel blog entry by jonpoland

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... some questions I had about other things, and we just talked about…stuff. He was incredibly generous with his time to the point where I started to get self-conscious, wondering if I was taking advantage. Except for that gnawing feeling of monopolizing his time, I would have been happy to spend hours chatting with him. At one point the Sakyong Wangmo wandered through and he introduced us. I had seen her in the summer of ...

Zero to a million miles an hour!!

A travel blog entry by chelletris

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... and rickshaws and the flute and other souvenir sellers badgering tourists.Marigold sellers also set up shop here. We have included an video on this entry for you all to see for yourselves this wonderful square as words can't describe.
For lunch we went to a pure veg restaurant Shree Lal. Amazing food-curried eggplant was extra yummy.I think we might be back before we leave. Our massive lunch only costing Aus $4. WE are going to miss these prices. We then took a cycled ...