Not too early start today as the bus doesn't leave until 9.15am so we had a shower then some breakfast. The lodge gave us a lift to the bus park where we got our bus to Lumbini, got chatting to an Australian girl and we all shared a taxi from bus stop to the hotel which was 20km away. The bus journey was as bad as all the others, hot, smelly and packed. This was a public bus so it took forever as it kept stopping and starting for people.
Very hot when we arrived at 2.30pm but we dumped our kit and headed off for some sight seeing. We are noticing the lack of western tourist here so we stick out like sore thumbs. Lumbini is like the rest of Nepal, dirty, a lot of poverty, no power or water but good wi-fi.
Went straight to Buddha's birthplace, it's just a building built around a stone where they say he was born and the pool where his mother bathed before giving birth to him. It's one of the four places in the world for Buddhists to pay homage to him. As it was getting late we visited a couple of Buddhists temples, they are very impressive as each one is from a different country so I think they try and out do each other. There is a lot of work going on in the area and still more temples being built, no British one I notice.
Back at hotel for a beer and some dinner, guess what egg and chips. Time for bed.
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