3:33, 03/03/2011
It's been an interesting week, weekend, experience.
Went to Lumbini, with a group of scallywags ... hardly, very fun people all of them. A Russian (ish), a Japanese Argentinian girl, a German Turkish girl, a cool monk from Kopan, a 6 year old Gelukpa Tulku cool kid :P, and ... a girl from Amdo who studies at Beijing :) but that's another awkward story ...
Anywho! Lumbini is just a nice relaxed highly spiritual place, Birthplace of the Buddha and all that. With a wonderful collection of fairly new temples, representative of Buddhism across the globe. But first to see the remains of old crumbled monasteries and pay respect to the Buddha.
Then I'd recommend visiting the multitude of temples, built and being built of across Lumbini by a number of Buddhist countries and sects. I managed to see Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Japan, Tibet Sakya, India, China, Germany, two I don't know :P and badabum! Korea!
I saved Korea for last because I stayed there and had such a simple peaceful rest while there :) It's very simple mind you, but for 250nrs a night you can stay in a dorm (fill the dorm with other people you know :P) and included with the stay is Breakfast and Dinner, which is very simple vegetabley Korean food. Also for another 100nrs you can rent a bicycle and ride around from monastery to monastery. and if in spring (now) the water and weather is nice and perfectly warm, nice not too hot not too cold shorts and t-shirt weather.
There are also lots of swanky fairly cheap guesthouses about, and food can be found, but it's a nice couple of day trip to go on, took a jeep there with a bunch of people so not too expensive, and a bus back 450nrs long ride but at night it's not too terrible.
But fun times with cool people :) enjoyable stuff to see and do, and only several awkward situations ... I need to watch what I say in other languages X? and when I say it with hours left on a bus ... oh well.
It's a fun relaxing trip for a couple of days.
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