Durbar Square Kathmandu

*The motto of Kathmandu city

Day 1 (Kathmandu)

The first day of my RTW trip was quite adventerous. I was going to take connecting flights via Sharjah, UEA and the transit time was 1 hour. Somehow, the first flight delayed for 50 minutes and I got quite nervous, worrying about whether I would be able to catch the next flight or not …

The last few days I have staying in Hotel Ganesh Himal in Kathmandu, Nepal. The rates are very reasonable ($13 per night) and the people are very friendly. They have a beautiful garden that I ate breakfast at each morning. I hope to return here one day, as the stay was very enjoyable. the entire place had wifi too, which was amazing!
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The country side of Nepal had been so good to us, we felt the Buddhist peace in Lumbini, the jungle adventure in Chitwan and the beauty of the top of the world in Pokhara, now we were on our way to the capital of Nepal, everybody had told us, get out as soon as you can, it is noisy, stressful, dirty, and so on. Well, there were still a couple of …

Our first full day in Kathmandu starts with a visit to Tower Dharahara, we found this by accident looking for Durba Square as it is quite difficult to navigate as there is no street names in Kathmandu. Crazy huh, everyone navigates by monuments. We sure had this problem covered by the end of the day, Tristian is awesome at navigating.
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I think it all started somewhere in the cavemen years when the men went exploring and hunting while the women stayes home taking care of everything else. Finding the way is our job and we don't want anyone to tell us "I told you so" when we get lost. So today when I refused to get an expensive private car to the main sites of Kathmandu I simply …

...and so it was that I came back to Kathmandu, the city that was to be my staging point for my escape from the Indian sub-continent into South East Asia. I just had a few last minute things to do before I left that a trip to Nepal really wouldn't be complete without.

Day 93: Friday April 20th

Another uneventful travel day awaited …

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My first excursion on day 1 in Kathmandu was to Durbar Square.

This is located in the centre of Kathmandu and is a world heritage site. Durbar Square boasts 43 beautiful temples and shrines, both Hindu and Buddhist, built between the 12th and 18th centuries. It is also the site where past kings of Nepal were crowned and until the early …

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De eerste dagen hebben we in Kathmandu rondgekeken en zijn we naar Durbar Square geweest. Eigenlijk een groot plein met veel tempels en het voormalige paleis van de koning. Deze laatste is nu omgetoverd tot een raar museum …

We had originally wanted to visit Nepal but decided we wouldn't have enough time only to eventually alter our plans at the last minute in order to do so. We are extremely happy we did and as we only had 5 nights, we would love to come back to Nepal one day and see more of it. Given the limited time we made a rough plan to view as much as we could …

... him. Indra complied, and every year they commemorate the occasion at the end of the monsoon. They held a big celebration in Durbar square in Kathmandu- I managed to get a space perched on some temple steps to watch. First regiments of gurkhas marched in, ...

... for innocent cultural exchange, at least not in any of the tourist landmarks. Now Pepsikola, that's a different story, but not in Durbar Square. I made it to the tourist police HQ eventually, were I in short order got exactly what I needed. My own ...

... gives us lots of exploring time. In the meantime I have continued my exploration of the city. On Friday I went to Durbar Square, in the middle of Kathmandu. It was a lovely day and I sat and did a sketch of a mask of Bhairab- a rather scary looking ...

... we have just finished the couple of days sight seeing :)  What did we sight see? We visited Durbar Square, an area filled with some stunning architecture, temples, cows and locals selling their wares.  Pashupatinath ...

... shops of Thamel, strolled around Old Town and sat on the top step of one of the many temples in Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, taking photos of tourists taking photos and watching burly female souvenir sellers hounding tourists across the ...

... a group visa for our trip through Tibet and the silk road in China. One of the first places we visit in Kathmandu is Durbar square. This is the cultural and spiritual heart of the city. Busy alleyways open into large squares which contain intricately ...

... another name of this city which 'means the city of beauty'. The main reason for a visit is to see Patan Durbar Square: This Durbar square is also a World Heritage site. It was 10 times more impressive than the Kathmandu one and much more enjoyable due ...

... that would come. Our biggest acomplishment was managing to completely avoid going any further from Thamel than the 15 minutes to Durbar square (the Nepali name for the area which houses the important temples and palaces of a town). However our stay on ...

... the permits and passes that you need to do that... Today, we decided to see some of the sights of Kathmandu... first stop, Durbar Square which houses palaces of kings that have ruled over the city.  We were greeted by about a thousand ...

... corrupt nations in the world: "Second only to Pakistan," Ragu said while we sat in the shade of the Bodhi tree in Kathmandu Durbar Square. "Our Prime Minister, however, is one of the richest people in the world, but the Nepali people, many are so ...