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Travel Day 650 – Kopan Monastery to Thamel, Kathmandu, NEPAL My last day at Kopan Monastery was a very short one, consisting only of breakfast, packing, lunch and then sharing a taxi towards Thamel… In the end, the time at the monastery had passed by rather quickly and ideally I would have spent at least […]
Travel Day 649 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL After all the course participants had left yesterday, I could not believe how nice and quiet Kopan Monastery had become over night… Since there was no class and no schedule at all today, it was really nice to use the time to relax and just simply enjoy myself. […]
Travel Day 648 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL It was already our last day of the Buddhist introduction course and I joined only the morning meditation… Afterwards a special long life puja happened in the main Gompa, in order to pray for good health and a long life of the slowly recovering Lama Zopa, one of […]
Travel Day 646-47 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL After one week of teachings and basic meditation practices, the last two days of the Discovering Buddhism course were set up as a real retreat… A retreat in this case meant that we had no more Buddhist teachings and just focused on different types of meditations. We had […]
Travel Day 640-45 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL After all the excitement of the first day, things started to become a little bit more of a routine after the second one. Also since every single day was planned out with classes from beginning to end, one day after the other just seemed to pass by more […]
Travel Day 639 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL We went to bed in silence yesterday evening, but when the 5.45am morning bell rang, I noticed how difficult the discovering of Buddhism was going to be, when I accidentally said a forbidden “good morning” to my dorm-mates… The morning tea in the cafeteria was then in silence […]
Travel Day 638 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL It was my first full day at the Buddhist monastery and in the evening my 10 day introductory meditation course would start. When I had signed up for this Discovering Buddhism class, I thought it would be a good idea to arrive a day earlier to settle-in before […]
Travel Day 637 – Kathmandu to Kopan Monastery, NEPAL It was time to leave Kathmandu again and especially Thamel, but unfortunately I still had to get few last things organized… First off I had to run to a travel agency again to make sure I would get the fights that I had decided on over […]
Travel Day 636 – Kathmandu, NEPAL Today was the only full day that I had in Kathmandu and before I would head out to Kopan Monastery to join a 10 day introduction class to Buddhism, I had quite a lot of things to get organized… The most important task for me on this Travel Sunday […]
Travel Day 015 – Banos, ECUADOR My Traveling Classroom not only had the goal to teach me Spanish, but also to show me a little bit more of Ecuador and so the planned activity of the day was a bike ride to some waterfalls in the mountains… After some nice breakfast in a local café, […]
Travel Day 014 – Quito to Banos, ECUADOR Today was finally the beginning of a one week Side Trip, namely my Traveling Classroom with the goal to learn some Spanish while travelling with a teacher through local villages… Initially there was supposed to be a group of people travelling and learning together, but either because […]
Travel Day 013 – Quito, ECUADOR Seeing the Old Town and New Town of Quito on the ground yesterday was great, but today we decided to get a better overview from the summit of Cruz Loma, at the slopes of active Pichincha Volcano… It appeared that Quito had just recently invested in a brand new tourist attraction and it […]
Travel Day 012 – Quito, ECUADOR After a good night of sleep and some nice breakfast on the great roof terrace overlooking Quito, it was about time to explore the Old Town… My hostel had a little travel agency included in the same building, run by former travelers and they offered a free 3 hour […]