Magic bus to Buddha Boy

Tempting as it is to circumvent the tedious and often dangerous 10-hour
bus ride to the 15-hour train ride to Delhi (total cost: about $20) by
taking a 1-hour flight for just $80 - on Bhutan's only airline, Druk
Air. Even more tempting to my crazed sensibilities is the idea of
seeing Buddha Boy, the 16-year-old who was meditating and fasting for
supposedly seven months in the jungles of southern Nepal. I have no
illusions of seeing a halo around his head or even getting close enough
to get a very good photo (thanks to his overzealous managers - uh, I
mean devotees). But I just can't resist a pilgrimage to an obscure
place to see freaky socio-religious phenomena.
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However, I could be halfway to Delhi, on the train, even, before I
reach Bada district.

"Bada district? Not possible," said Bishnu, the good-natured,
open-faced young man who runs Youth Travels, one room with faux
wood-panelling, a phone, a desk and battered posters of Mount Everest
Scotch-taped to the wall. His desk was surrounded by squat stools that
look like those used for milking cows. In the West, this would be the
reception area of a travel agency. Here, it's the entire operation. I
plopped down on a milking stool and gazed up at the Nepali map in hope
of finding some way around this verdict.