Attaining enlightenment... or not.
October 14th 2008 We travelled overnight by train from Kolkata to Gaya which was a fairly pleasant journey. We got chatting to an Indian couple sharing our compartment and it turns out his son was studying in Bristol, small world.
From Gaya we got an auto-rickshaw to the town of Bodghgaya, the spot where Budda attained enlightenment under a Boddhi tree. It is a pilgrimage site for Buddhists and has lots of differe
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