Welcome to Gokarna Forest Resort! This past Thursday started the boy's mid-term break. We decided that it was time to take a day and head out of the smog and city and just get a little rejuvenation. There is a Norwegian family here that we've gotten to know over the past 6 months and they suggested that we try Gokarna Forest Resort. They made the bookings for us and all of us met up there. It's about an hours drive from our house and takes you through all sorts of places I didn't know existed here (good and bad).
This is the last of the great forests in the Kathmandu Valley and used to be the old hunting grounds of the kings of Nepal. There are several temples located here including the second oldest (built in th 1500s). I'm sorry I can't tell you much more about it...temples are really not "my thing". 
There are no horns blaring, no dogs barking, relatively clean air, trees that are said to be over 200 years old (see picture below), and peace...it was a marvelous time for us. The boys enjoyed having two friends with them; Mattias and Kaja, Norwegian brother and sister. They swam in the indoor pool, tried their hand at hitting golf balls at the driving range, took a jungle walk, and just ran around in the openess of the grounds.
Now that we know this place is here and so close and so peaceful, we just may have to go back.
2 comments:
That kind of tree in Indonesia would become a 'keramat' tree where people go asking something, like the old culture. What about there? is there anyone go there to pray or meditate under or on the tree?
Not at this particular tree because it is on private property. However, all over downtown Kathmandu, there are trees (not quite this size) that are worshiped, slathered in their red dye and has holy strings wrapped all around it.
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