Gazette 77
INDIA - In The Footsteps Of The Buddha 17-31 October 2009
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NB Full details of the trip itinerary are embedded in the photopages here
Friday 23 October Kushinagar
The Kushinagar Burmese temple roof / Sheila at the temple
Derek at the Mahaparinirvava temple which houses the beautiful reclining image
of the Buddha at his passing (photographs here)
Karma & Derek enjoy a Bhutanese gin & fluorescent green soft drink with lunch
at a small roadside restaurant on the way back to Varanasi
Saturday 24 October Train to Delhi
Sheila is amused as the driver crams our baggage into the back of autorickshaw to go to Varanasi station /
Sharing fresh water chestnuts on the platform awaiting our train to Delhi
Relaxing with an Indian brandy & soft drink on the train
Train passing through endless fields of ripe crops
Karma & Sheila practising with train bed sheet how to arrange the half kira (part of Bhutanese national dress)
he brought her from his wife Passang / Sunset over the countryside
Our on-train cocktail cabinet (right)
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Photographs © Derek & Sheila Henderson 2009