Nepal? No, Brisbane.

I got the train to Brisbane today to visit a sick friend. Passing through the city on the way back to the station, I had a quick walk along South Bank where I blipped these blippers. Here's a little background:-

Brisbane's Nepal Peace Pagoda is one of only three outside Nepal (the others

are in Munich and Osaka). It was built as part of World Expo '88, hosted by

Brisbane.

80 tonnes of indigenous Nepalese timber from the Terai jungle forest of Nepal

were carted to Kathmandu where 160 Nepalese families worked for two years,

crafting its diverse elements. These were shipped to Australia in three

containers, where they were assembled in only a few days at the Expo site by

a handful of Australian workers under Nepalese supervision.

Three-levelled, with a beautiful tea house on the second level, it quickly

became one of the most visited and photographed Pavilions at the Expo.

Towards the end of the Expo the Friends of the Pagoda established a petition

to keep it in Brisbane after the conclusion of the Expo, with some 70,000

signatories.

It remains a 'must-visit' (And must-blip) feature on Brisbane's South Bank.