From my diary (June 2013)
The following morning, I breakfast with a pleasant,
talkative Hungarian lady and her Spanish friend, with whom I had exchanged a
few words previously. I discover they are going on an airplane tour around
Mount Everest the following day, one of the ‘excursions’ available here for
tourists, and at quite an affordable price, too, for those with dollars or
euros. Then Laura and Massimo arrive, and we step out to haggle with a taxi
driver. Bodnath is just outside Kathmandu, less than half an hour’s drive from
where we are. The taxi drops us off next to one of the entrances to the large
circular precinct wherein stands the stupa. The precinct grounds are lined with
restaurants, coffee shops, and souvenir shops. We cross the short alley leading
to the square and, suddenly, before us rises this wondrous witness to Buddhism,
reminiscent of the Swayambhunath stupa I had visited the day before, only incomparably
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The Bodhath Stupa (Kathmandu) seen from the alley leading to the square
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| The Bodnath Stupa |
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| The Bodnath Stupa from above |
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| Partial view of the square around the Stupa |
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