Lumbini Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I finally decided not to do the Jomsom Trek but to visit Lumbini instead. Lumbini is known for The Buddha's birthplace. I had reserved my bus ticket through The Sacred Valley Inn which was supposed to be for a tourist bus ticket (I was charged 500 rupies while the ticket cost 300 rupies) and then was put on a local bus!!!! Needless to say it was...

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 two years ago. However, its an absolutely amazing place and well worth a night stopover to hire a push bike and c...

Made it across the border with remarkable ease after a train journey from Delhi to Gorakpur. Shortly after getting to Nepal, and a swift roof top bus journey, we arrived at Buddha's birthplace - Lumbini. The weather is still topping out at 40 but the sights are great. Since the late 70s this area has been cultivated into a 'Buddhist Park' and th...

Today I headed to Lumbini - the birthplace of Buddha - the spot in which he sprouted from his mother's armpit. I had one change of bus to get there and here I met a group of young Nepali guys who had been studying in India but were back to see their families and have a few days exploring. They were also going to Lumbini and asked me to join thei...

So, Lumbini. Not a whole lot to say! Birthplace of the man who later became Buddha. Many countries are building temples there. They are widly spread out, and it takes quite a while to visit them all. Really, it is just another version of Bodgaya, except not quite as condensed. Met some great people, but a day was really more than enough time to ...

Today was a full day of travelling to reach the Nepalese border town of Lumbini. The trip was made worse by the fact that the government had announced an increase in fuel prices so the whole country (perhaps a slight exaggeration) was on strike and burning tyres in the middle of major roads. Hopefully things will get better from here. Another da...

From Kathmandu it was a 9.5 hour bus ride to Lumbini.

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 lake, that's what you see in the pictures.