Monkey Temple (Swayambunath Stupa) 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 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 …

What an awesome day today. Most of the day was spent roaming around the Buddhist temple of Swayambhunath. It is mobbed by monkeys and soars high above the city on a hill top. The compound is centred around a gleaming white stupa, topped by a gilded spire painted with the eyes of the Buddha. These eyes can be seen all over the city.Many pilgrims …

(F) Just wanted to share the short anecdote regarding our late morning visit to Swayambunath Stupa.

Big temple grounds in Kathmandu, holiest Buddhist site in the city, full of monkeys.

We were walking down some steps along the hillside, high walls on both sides of us, Jasper had recently purchased a large (let's be honest can you …

Today was a day off shopping for hippy clothing & Jewelery! Bought some lovely things! SO CHEAP!
Afterwards we took a taxi up to the mountain top to visit The Swayambunath Stupa, watched the sunset AMAZING!! It was a Tibeten Buddhist Temple, with thouse unforgettable eyes, we hung out with some local Nepalese boys, who later took us on the …

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 …

My second day in Kathmandu has been lush! I've had a really leisurely day! Got a taxi to Swayambunath Stupa (aka the Monkey Temple).

I was a bit disappointed when I first arrived! I was sure there was more to it, but I had an hour to explore before the taxi came back for me so I walked around the back. That's where the steps started. All …

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Om 9:00 uur werd ik bij Bishu in Kathmandu wakker en aangezien hij dicht bij de Monkey Tempel woonde en ik de tijd had, besloot ik deze alsnog te bezoeken. Daarna zouden we wat andere zaken regelen in de stad en zou ik worden afgezet op het vliegveld. Zo gezegd zo gedaan en eenmaal op het vliegveld bleek dat mijn vlucht was geannuleerd! Wel betaald …

... central bus park, bound for Monkey Temple. The station was a nutty, crowded, insane place, and it took about a dozen shouts of "monkey temple!" until we were finally pointed toward the right bus. The only way to tell where a bus is going, even for the ...

... so hopefully Ill be better by then. We had a good day visiting Pasupati, Buddhanath Stupa (nepals biggest stupa) and Soyumbunath - Monkey Temple. We stopped and had a great lunch (a full plate of steamed vegetables!! heaven) on a roof top directly ...

... of careening down a mountain bike track with almost no control and a sheer drop on one side. Outing number two was Swayambunath, the Monkey Temple. Yeah, monkeys. Cool. The whole basis of this place is to build a huge stupa on top of a really high hill ...

... Patan we drove northwards to Swoyambhunath, our final destination of the half-day tour. Swoyambhunath has another stupa, also known as the Monkey Temple, and it can be seen from almost anywhere in Kathmandu as it sits atop a large hill on the northern ...

... and Nunneries & one of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world, built during the 5th century AD) and Swayanabath, aka Monkey Temple. I could've spent hours observing the hordes of red ass monkeys that reside here, even if all they do all day is sit ...

... Thankfully the music did improve and we managed to get on the dancefloor. Today we hired bikes and cycled to Monkey Temple, which is a temple high up on the hillside above Kathmandu, the views were spectacular and the monkeys were very entertaining. On ...

... way through the place. Anyways, apart from the obvious distractions there is some serious sightseeing in Kathmandu to accomplish. From Durbar Square to the Monkey Temple you can waste a few days just losing yourself in this wonderful city. There ...

... or jump in a cab or a rickshaw, and soon you are at the stairs leading up to Swayambhunath, often referred to as the Monkey Temple due to its hundreds of furry little inhabitants. The stairs rise up before you, taking you through a peaceful landscape of ...

... in every little niche. On about day 3 we went to visit Swayambhunath Temple, a very important Buddhist temple, also known as the monkey temple. It was great to get completely out of Thamel for a while. It's perched on the top of a hill and with ...

... , but as Megan was feeling like shit, we left her behind to go to this Buddhist temple. Sometimes, this temple is called the monkey Temple as there are monkeys there as well. As Stuart had been here before, he showed us a free way to get in. Once up the ...