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Day 25: Kathmandu

Most of our time in Kath­mandu was spent blow­ing out our intestines in the hotel bath­room. Thank­fully, it was a nice hotel and bath­room with warm cof­fee col­ors and all that. We know food didn’t do us in; our stom­achs are invin­ci­ble to spices or weird­ness of any kind regard­ing food. It was some sort of …

04.04.2011 – 5:01:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India II | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Day 19: Lumbini

The birth­place of Bud­dha and home to dozens of monas­ter­ies, all built in dif­fer­ent styles suit­ing the Bud­dhist soci­eties which built them. Korea, Japan, Thai­land, Bhutan, Nepal, oth­ers; each cul­ture erected and imprinted their own inter­pre­ta­tion. The true draw of the site is the ancient monastery and pil­lar erected by Asoka the Great, now pro­tected …

03.17.2011 – 7:00:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India II | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Day 9: Ajanta and Ellora Caves

Ajanta and Ellora are eas­ily among the top five sites for any­body who likes mon­u­ments, Hin­duism or Bud­dhism, or any com­bi­na­tion of those. In terms of mon­u­ments, I’d say that per­son­ally, these sites were more inter­est­ing than many ancient mon­u­ments in Europe—they are cer­tainly bet­ter pre­served for being the same age. Ajanta is older, the …

02.15.2011 – 8:02:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India II | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)