Goodbye India, Hello Nepal.

Trip Start Sep 29, 2008
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Trip End Aug 2009


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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

It's an early start today. We leave Varanasi before sunrise, yet it still feels like rush-hour. The constant use of car horns must keep the thousands that sleep on the side of the road awake all night! We leave the city limits and try to sleep. It is soon clear that the Indian driving style in not good for passengers to sleep. With a numb bum and whip lash injuries worth thousands of pounds at home we arrive five hours later at the Indian-Nepal border.
The formalities are relatively easy, the payment of $40 each making it so.
We walk the few metres from India into Nepal. Would have been nice to take a picture below the Welcome to Nepal archway, but the Nepalese army, clad in blue camouflage scowl menacingly at us. We are advised not to use our cameras.
The minute we drive away from the border the smells of India fade away. The smell of urine will probably stay with me to my grave, but at least the smell is now only a memory.
We visit the birthplace of the Lord Buddha in Lumbini. The tranquility of the place is a welcome relief, the Nepalese drive like their Indian cousins. While walking around the sight of the birthplace of Buddha we hear conspiracy theories and tales of forgery and deception. Who thought religion could be so exciting!
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