Nirvana Lumbini

... was shorter, but it was climbing up. Eventually these were 23km (13.5+9.5) which I walked in 7:15h (3+1 & 2:15+1 - moving+stopped times), with the total ascent of 1170m (270+900). I should check how does it fit the schedule of the Annapurna, etc. 
In the evening I made a guess, and walked to the yesterday's hole-in-the-wall restaurant, and was right - the french folks were there (they are curiously thrifty, beating even some Israeli folks I beleive - kind of ...

... even after it starts the drive - stopping every 5 minutes for another 5 minutes - to pick up more passengers. The bus takes us to Sunauly, where we take another one, which takes us to Butwal. Another change of bus, and we are on the Siddharta highway, which looks just perfect to take picture - too bad the bus won't stop for it. 
Tansen meets us with an 80 meters climb - just to get to the center. The hotels are not cheap at all. Some ave prices in ...

When I got up at 7 I find out that I didn't close properly a bottle with the water and my valet is all wet - including the new passport (which I moved into it yesterday) the camera case, etc. Well, at least no books were damaged. 
Outside is very foggy and I'm running almost on blind. I don't know the road to the garden. Eventually it's not a big deal. The run feels good - it takes me some 50 minutes to loop the ...

... am I from:) and go to the Tripple-Arch. Three minutes and there is a ride on a jeep - cool. On the way I see strange plants - lot's of sugar canes are stored around, there is some machinery working and heavy dark smoke goes up. I think they produce sugar there - I try to take a picture, but it's not easy - we drive fast. 
Bus to Sunauli from Gorakhpur supposed to take less than two hours. For ...

... aangestaard en nagekeken (en zoals de niet-toeristische plekken in India trouwens). Het is heel mooi gelegen met kleine kronkelende straatjes die de berg op gaan en de vallei is s'ochtends gevuld met een laagje mist (the white lake).<br>En hoe gaat het in nederland? Al een mexicaansegriep-prik gehad, of gaat dat toch niet meer door? En op de TU/Via/multi/Rapp/hobbit enzenz?? We horen het graag ;)<br><br>X <br>Lisette en Stijn<br><br>

... security of a 10 yr old boy. we then biked around a few of the temples before heading back to our hotel for dinner. we specifically ordered it at lunch for 7pm so that there was plenty of time for them to make it so we could eat before 10pm, when it arrived, slightly late but there were 4 power cuts) it was really nice.<br><br>we all went to bed early we we had to be up at 4.30 for ride to India<br>

... bit of a crowd. I tried to explain to everyone what the fossil was, and where it had come from, especially the kids. I teach kids science all the time... this was really no different. <br><br>He threw the hammer down a few times, and shattered it... no fossil. Then again he did the same thing on the other one... and again no fossil. I was feeling a little sad that neither rock had a fossil in it, and maybe the disappointment led me to pick ...

... King that the child was destine to be a great king or priest, and as such, the concerned parents secluded the young boy to their estate throughout his life, wanting to prepare him for his eventual call to greatness. They wanted him to become learned and intelligent, and to stay away from the trouble and ills of world that existed outside his estate walls. <br><br>He spent his life studying as he was told, always reading yet never experiencing. And when he turned 29, Guatama ...

... to finally drop me on the main road in Bhairawa where I had to catch another local bus to Lumbini or Buddha Nagar. There were also 2 other foreigners that in fact had tickets for an earlier bus but their seats had been resold to two others that had arrived before them!!! Arriving in Bhairawa I decided I couldn't face another local bus and decided to take a taxi. The French couple that had been on the same bus decided to share the taxi with ...

... say "Ma Kathmanduma Janchu" I'm going to Kathmandhu, at which point he laughed and started chatting away to me in perfect English before putting me on the right bus. So far so good.<br><br>Except the bus stopped every 10 minutes. So I couldn't get to sleep. Then when I did get to sleep we stopped for dinner, at midnight. "No I don't want rice, I want to sleep". Then at 2am we stopped to unload vegetables at a market ...