Nepal has 4 WHS and with this card sent by Johnson, i've all of them!! Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha was added to the World Heritage List in 1997.
Lumbinī is a Buddhist pilgrimmage site in the Rupandehi district in southern Nepal.
Photo © Jagadish Tiwari
Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, was born in 623 B.C. in the famous
gardens of Lumbini, which soon became a place of pilgrimage. Among the pilgrims
was the Indian emperor Ashoka, who erected one of his commemorative pillars
there. The site is now being developed as a Buddhist pilgrimage centre, where
the archaeological remains associated with the birth of the Lord Buddha form a
central feature. - in: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/666
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