People at the souvenir shops

Before the entrance

December 29th 2009
Xmas Day was an early start as we had several hours drive to the Nepal border. We crossed at Sounali then styaed in Lumbini that night. Great trip through the countryside, but fairly slow as usual- its difficult to get up to 40km per hour, with the state of the back roads, the number of villages to go through (every few kilometres, and the ever present buffalo, goats etc on gthe roads (not to me ... read more

Asia » Nepal » Lumbini

In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. A Maoist in... ... read more

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Allyca

Hi...here we are taking in some of that middle eastern magic in 2006 - soaking up the sounds, sights and scents of the Sinai. One of the huge tribe of WWWs (wishful/wistful/wondering? world wanderers).. Like all of you out there in T-blog space, we love travelling - specially to out of the way places. The world is such an amazing place - just wish there was unlimited time (and funds) to see a lot more. With smatterings of travel here there and everywhere, the wonderment and wanderlust gets stronger all the time...too much to see and not enough time left!! The beauty of nature, wide open... full info

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