lumbini

Toast a weenie in lumbini…buy a bikini and go to the birth place of the Buddha. Near the Indian border we traveled by bus top…until the police pulled us over and made us get down…but for a second we had control…we could see it all…it was brilliant…and dangerous, so we made appropriate this could be the end cheers playing cow headstand and the drums…picnicking in the face danger.
Picked up a new friend in pokara on our way out.…meriam from the uk and new Zealand …the architect noemi from Budapest dumped us and went to Katmandu after things didn’t work out between she and bro…so we left with our artist friend who was a great companion and a funny uplifting young lady with an entertaining accent and an interest in drawing and sculpture and artists and other nice things…it was a treat.
Lumbini itself is currently under construction with Buddhist temples being built from countries like china, france, Thailand, India, Cambodia, and such…most of the buildings were new…we stayed at the Korean temple that is currently underconstruction…and made for an interesting aesthetic. The food was excellent buffet style Korean cooking…everyone washes their own dishes and the water from that water runs outside to water the garden through small canals made for irrigation…quite practical indeed.
We rented bikes and peddled around to the different temples. The thai temple was all white and I couldn’t tell whether they worshiped Buddha or their king more. The Chinese temple was perfect…it was like one giant sculpture…everything was painted…very colorful…and uplifiting. The Buddha birthplace itself was a series of small ruins and large trees cover in hundreds colorful peace flags that draped from banyon to banyon…in fact there were so many flags that they were strangling the trees…kind of sad but poetic for imaging. More necklaces than people a thousand to one…I have a pretty good collection going at this point…im wearing fourteen at the moment.