Day
01: Kathmandu Arrival / Transfer to Hotel / Free Afternoon
/ A familiarization walk with a guide in the evening
Day 02: Morning yoga at 6:30 before breakfast
A tour of Newari Buddhist City of Patan. Visit few of
its many ancient monastery architecture well decked with
various statues, metal gildings, woodcarvings and other
spiritual objects. The northern wing of the Patan Palace
has been developed as a museum managed by Austrian Government.
Visit to this museum would enlighten on spiritual aspect
of the city.
Day 03: Morning yoga at 6:30 before breakfast Drive
to Shyambhunath chaitya residing on a hillock offering
wonderful view of valley. This is one of the ancient monument
of Kathmandu valley and is a center of pilgrimage for
Buddhists from all around the world. Legend of Shyambhunath
is related with origin of Kathmandu Valley and first Buddhist
settlement here. The hillock is also abode of monasteries
belonging to various sects of Tibetan Buddhism. Next we
will drive to Kopan Monastery. Kopan Monastery is probably
the biggest monastery housing more than 750 monks and
nuns from Himalaya. Beside its spiritual significance
this monastery in the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Mahayana
Buddhism is quite famous as it provides various opportunities
for non initiates to practice Buddhism mediation and share
the merits in Pujas. Next we will drive to Baudhanath,
a Tibetan settlement of Kathmandu after Cultural Revolution
in Tibet. Here we can visit Thanka Painting School where
a Buddhist philosophy is depicted on canvas with months
(sometimes years) of meditative work.
Day 04 & 05: Fly to Lumbini the birth place
of Gautam Buddha. As millions of Buddhists believes stepping
on this sacred land itself sanctify ones bad karma. Beside
monumental sites there are more than three dozen of monasteries
build by Buddhists from various countries and a Buddhist
museum.
Day 06: Fly back to Kathmandu. Free afternoon.
Day 07: Morning yoga at 6:30 before breakfast
Visit few other places as per your interest including
Industrial Area.
Day 08: Drive to Airport and fly back
Additional Options:
Extend your stay for two more nights and visit Pokhara
(Tibetan Refugee Camps, World Peace Stupa, Internatioanl
Mountaineering Museum and more)
Stay in our Yoga Retreat Center for couple of night
with extra activities of rafting, brid watching and
village tour.
Day
01: Kathmandu Arrival / Transfer to Hotel / Free Afternoon
/ A familiarization walk with a guide in the evening