Upon arriving in kushinagar. It was always a new sensation to breathe and feel a new place. The town is quite off the main artilery roads of india and unlike the others. I may be called a back water town.
If not for being famous for the place where thr buddha passed on and where he was cremeted.
This small town is really sleepy and looks not primed yet for primetime. Always looking forward to be a major attraction with new projects coming up and people are alway waiting for this town to be a major site of visit.
Many projects and upgrades going on the town is also companioning for the dalai lama to come and do more preaching and lectures and it is also pulling the crowds by trying to build the worlds biggest sitting buddha called the maitrya project
Now being the summer season and temperatures hitting feverish temperatures the only people coming in is me , local indian tourists and also the occasional tourist from thailand etc.
Also quite intersted to know that many more expensive hotels , the royal residency and the lotus have all closed. Very intersting and they seemed to be only open in oct where most big bucks western and asian tourists come.
Most impressive is the burmese mosnastary which towers upon the town by the main gateway which caretaker was sleeping and I wasn't able to get accommodations there and then there is the vietnam and chinese temple. Japan sri lanka and also the thai temple which is also undergoing renovations.
The temple where the buddha pass on is located on an open field and I must say the place is quite hot with the summer heat and such but the mount where the buddha was cremated is quite shadely but that is quite far off from the main town and at least 20 mins walk.
Coming here is a completely different feeling and I must say its more isolated then I thought
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