Luahanku....君子之风: Trip to Kathmandu-Buddhism Pilgrimage (Dec20181Jan2019)-Day 1

Wanted to follow this trip, quite sometime back, and just happened that I went to Kechare Forest Retreat (KFR) in Bentong and I met Wylfred, and that was where I got the information on this trip, flying out from Malaysia on 26th morning, back on 1st Jan 2019 (early morning). All went well, and I just want to write something here to make a record, again, for my future reading.
So, initially cause I was working on a project at Suzhou, hence was thinking of flying direct from Shanghai on 25th morning, stay a nite at KLIA and fly out together with KFR team on 26th, and since I finished earlier the project in Suzhou, hence i left earlier but still I put up a nite at Tune hotel KLIA as the check in time at KLIA was quite early.

Reason of joining this trip:
I think personally, I should get to know more about Buddhism and holy places related to Buddhism, and this trip I trust is able to offer me one.

Quote:

"According to H.E the 25th Tsem Rinpoche, pilgrimages are for us to connect with the blessed energies of places where holy beings have chosen to take rebirth, gained Enlightenment, taught Dharma or passed away. Sites like these carry the everlasting compassion energies, enlightened minds, where holy beings resided, practised and have benefited countless beings. Everything they owned or used before, including the area they lived or practised their faith, were entirely for the benefit of other sentient beings".

Before our departure....

early in the morning after check in, and having a cup of tea at Starbucks KLIA

Outside Kathmandu airport. The total time spent in the airport was quite long as there was along queue, and some of us were applying visa on arrival (and we missed out some forms for Visa application, hence it cause another 10-20 minutes longer.

The Road House Hotel

Upon arrival at the hotel, we immediately had our late lunch and as far as Malaysian time is concerned, it is already close to dinner time. Our hotel is known as Road house hotel, quite a new one, in the famous touristy spot, that is Thamel.
Once lunch is completed, we made a move to two chapels, namely Chenrezig Chapel and Tara Chapel.

Chenrezig chapel also known as Kuanyin, is a very old temple here and it is an old temple, managed by a local family as I understood. And it was just like 10 minutes walking from where our hotel is, and when we arrived, it was not crowded. The surrounding area was actually undergoing a lot of renovation work here, and later we offered our butter lamps...
Next, our tour leader brought us to another chapel, and that was the Tara Chapel.

Tara chapel, we can see clearly here, Yellow, White and Green Taras and so blessed to have a chance to see all three Taras here. Again we offered incense and butter lamp and it was close to 15 minutes walking from Chenrezig Chapel.