John Paul II: Visiting the world of a modern-day saint
April 2015
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Dhamek Stupa, Sarnath, India
After attaining enlightenment, the Buddha is said to have preached his first sermon in a deer park that existed in the same area where the structure shown in our February 2015 photo is now located. The 143-foot-tall Dhamek Stupa (sometimes spelled “Dhamekh” or “Dhamekha”) is located in the small village of Sarnath, 8 miles from Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Glasgow Central Station tour
Visitors to the 138-year-old Glasgow Central Station (Gordon St., Glasgow, Scotland, G1 3SL, U.K.; phone +44 845 748 4950) can take a behind-the-scenes tour of the second-busiest train station in the UK.
The 90-minute tour (weather permitting) includes a 90-step climb and a walk across catwalks above the roof, made up of 48,000 panes of glass, plus a trip to the remains of Grahamston village, which the station was built on top of in 1879, a stop at the old steam engine boiler rooms and an exploration of the station’s catacombs.
Kambly Swiss train trip
In Switzerland, the dedicated “Kambly Train,” sponsored by the Swiss biscuit company Kambly (phone +41 34 495 0222), originators of Goldfish® crackers, takes passengers to the town of Trubschachen to visit the Kambly Experience, a museum and showroom by the station, where visitors can try 100 types of cookies.
Tuesday through Sunday, the train leaves twice a day eastbound from Bern (9:36 a.m. & 1:36 p.m.) and three times a day westbound from Lucerne (7:57 a.m., 11:57 a.m. & 2:51 p.m.).