Lumbini Zone Transportation

by rickshaw to India

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by rickshaw to India
by josephescu
Transportation
by josephescu

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to Gorakhpur (in India)

by josephescu

With an early rise and an expensive tasteless breakfast in our stomach, we jumped in a minivan to Bhairawa a little after 8 a.m., after a 10 minutes wait somewhere on the main road in Lumbini. From Bhairawa, we took a 100 rupees rickshaw to the Indian border, with the rickshaw man helping us find someone to exchange Nepali rupees into Indian ones, at a rate which proxied closely what we had in mind. Passport shown on the Nepali side, border crossing by foot, and we arrived in India….looking for the Indian border police, hidden between an endless array of stores and shops selling everything for everyone. Luckily some people showed us the kiosk of the border police, otherwise we could not have find it. We already had visas for India, but this did not mean we were exonerated from filling in some sort of application forms, sticking photos and explain where are we heading and which hotels...

from Tansen to Lumbini

by josephescu

We left Tansen just before noon, taking a bus to Butwal from the bus station in one of the town squares, 1 hour ride for 50 rupees. From Butwal, we caught the one hour bus to Bhairawa on the main road (25 rupees), simply by shouting our destination. From Bhairawa, frequent overloaded minivans make the journey to Lumbini in about one hour, because of frequent stops, and they cost around 10-20 rupees.Take into account that the distance between Bhairawa and Lumbini is very small (20 km or so) and that the map on the 2006 LP edition seems to wrongly indicate a much longer distance.