Around the world: Lumbini

March 21

It was the buddhist monks who comes here in huge A/C tourist buses and the american backpackers who had to be crammed into a dingy rusty local van that will fall apart any minute.

It was the Chinese Monastry who turned me away and the Korean Monastery who took me in on my Buddhist Pilgrimage.

Strange contrasts in strange land. 

I said Farewell to Laura yesterday. Did I mention that she came back and bumped into me? It was weird as I really wanted to see her again, but I was really busy arranging for my travels to Lumbini. Still we stayed up with Deanna (Slovakian she bumped into in a jungle) to drink and play card game till very late at night. 

Needless to say the travel to Lumbini the next day was very rough due to it and as always, because it was an early morning departure I forgot aomething. This time, ine of the aladdin pants I bought.

Electricity and internet is getting scarcer now. This is getting closer and closer to what backpacking used to be like.

I am trying to find peace and get back to meditation, but my meta is still not connecting. I only know that the meta under the bodi tree (where budda was born) feels golden.