Today we are going to be enlightened i can feel it.....Off to Buddhas birth place, they actually have the exact stone Buddha was born on in a glass box (me and Giselle are a little dubious to how they new the exact stone but who are we to say any different.)
We got on a bus very easily, no suprise there, but we were a little suprised when we jumped on and it was just a few polish men sat there (Hmm thats unusual), they all said hello and asked us where we were from and then carried on talking in Polish. Some of them went and sat on the roof, i was wearing a skirt and in the lonely planet they advise you to be on your guard to duck, i decided i should wait untill my ducking skill were improved. The bus driver pulled over just down the road "we just have to wait here abit." Polish man "thats fine, just chill man." We had a chat with the polish man infront of us and found out they were making a documentary on a man who has an orphanage for the blind children in Kathmandu (I think thats right). Oooo exciting ! They had a nice big video camera with them. The man the doccumentary was on was very lovely and looked quite alot how id imagine Jesus to look.
Polish man turned around to us again looking rather pleased with him self "Do you know what this is?"... It was a little flat tin with a strange picture on... me and Giselle "um no"...."hahah, its white Indian snuff......do you want some?".... I tend to avoid snorting strange white substances as a general rule, and when its from a strange Polish man in Nepal who's baught it in India the answer was pretty self explanatory. "Hahaha, not today thankyou".
The bus journeys was one of our best, though i would like to say if you ever watch a polish documentary theres a high chance me and giselle are going to be looking awkard sat behind a lovely bearded man on a bus.
We got to Lumbini and said goodbye to the film makers. Buddhas birth place was really quite lovely and relaxing, we walked alot and past alot of Cows that all seemed to have a duck following them (if anyone knows why all the cows had a white duck as a friend let me know.) We wondered around, i got stressed as i was hot and everything was so far away, then Giselle got stressed cause i was stressed, we nearly got a rickshaw then didnt cause it was expensive and it wanted to take us some where that we thought we might of already been (rickshaw man wasnt best pleased.) We then went to a nun temple and spoke to some German guys who told us there was a Peace Pagoda right the other end (we really like the last one so decided to check it out).
We would like to apoligize to the rickshaw man who had to cycle us all the way there, it was a long long way! we just assumed it wasnt, sorry im sure it did your legs good.
Last day in Nepal but off to India tommorow YAY
I'm a little terrified of venturing into Varanasi though!
That night I decided if were to come back i would dye my hair brown and get a major fake tan to try and draw less attention to myself, Giselle reply was..."except in Pokhara...In Pokhara you can be freeee" We miss you Pokhara.
The sticky hooks dont really keep our mosquito nets up, thankfully weve only had to attempt to use them once :) Giselle also found a dead mosquito in her bed.
Also Fusion Garden Restaurant in Lumbini was very lovely and would reccomend, they also ran after a bus they thought was ours to stop it, it wasnt.
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