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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 […]
Travel Day 011 – Lima to Quito, ECUADOR It was an Active Travel Day again and I was leaving Peru already behind and heading for Quito in Ecuador… When I booked my Round the World Ticket, I chose Lima as the main hub to fly in and out of, because most connections went through Lima […]
Travel Day 010 – Barranco, Lima, PERU After spending most of the day in Miraflores yesterday, it was about time today to explore this lovely looking place called Barranco a little bit… My first walk of the day took me along the main street that once seemed to have had a trolley running on it, […]
Travel Day 009 – Barranco and Miraflores, PERU Even if I arrived already yesterday evening, today was my first full Arrival Day in Barraco, in Peru and in South America… After a good night of sleep and some nice breakfast in the hostel, the world looked very different again. Also the fact that I got to […]