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Bhaktapur Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Bhaktapur, Nepal
Relaxation and World Heritage City
This is a top pick! ... setting up the market again!!! - right outside our window!! -oh well.... All part of the adventure as mum would say. Bhaktapur is Nepals most visited day trip and is just about compulsory for anyone coming to Nepal. Most tourists come by tourist but ...
UNESCO World Heritage
This is a top pick! Bhaktapur is a UNESCO World Heritage city and makes an easy day trip from Kathmandu. It only takes one hour in a bus to cover the 8 miles (13km) to get there! In the name of extreme laziness, I am going to post this as a photo entry only ...
Day 8: Walk to Bhaktapur
This is a top pick! ... a half hour on foot through farmland from the nearest bus stop. Since the orphanage sits midway on the journey between Kathmandu and Bhaktapur, the rest of the day was used to take a patient stroll through the valley and sightsee Bhaktapur old town. One ...
Bopping around Bhaktapur
This is a top pick! ... clay fired pots and urns are laid out in the sun, the technique largely unchanged for hundreds of years. The old town of Bhaktapur is car free, and makes for a great pedestrian experience. While expensive to visit, (about $10 American), it is worth ...
UNESCO sites amidst the chaos
This is a top pick! ... each of these places manages to retain some of their distinct characteristics, such as Patan's wonderful metal-working and Bhaktapur's much quieter, traffic free streets and its reputation as the very best wood-carvers in the country, making Bhaktapur's ...
Jesus, Buddha, Shiva and Happy New Year 2069
... in the room. H. H. The XIV Dalai Lama To finish our time in Nepal we spent our last days in Bhaktapur which is one of the three old Capital cities in the Kathmandu Valley and has a relaxed rural setting. Bhaktapur is ...
Bhaktapur
I went to Bhakpatur which is one of the three main cities in the Kathmandu Valley. It has a very medieval feel and much of its glorious architecture dates from the end of the 17th century. There are lot of woodcarved temples there and I found out that ...
Sari Fest in Bhaktapur
... about $2.20 CDN but $150 r sounds so much more expensive than $2.20. And hey the bus is .22 cents! I show up in Bhaktapur after shuffling around, being bent in odd ways, exercising each arm while hanging on to the small railing above my head, and trying ...
The Entrance to Nepal
... to say, it has been this biggest culture shock of anywhere i've been to, and this is for several reasons. At the moment Nepal is just getting out of some recent troubles and civil unrest owing to some Maoist's knocking on the door of Kathmandu one day ...
Tharu Village
... I interviewed him. Here is the interview: INTERVIEW WITH NETRA, age 8 (his name means "eyes" in Tharu) Beltadi, Tharu Village, Terai, Nepal Who do you live with? My mother, father, and my six-year old brother Do you go to school? Yes, I am ...
Change of pace
... guesthouse called the Taleju room went for 800 rupiah (about 11 bucks can.) Great quiet area just outside the gates to main part of Bhaktapur, or so I thought. Come 3:30 am a big bell clang. What was that? Back to sleep, not to much later clang and clang ...
Magnifique citee de Bhaktapur et sollicitation...
... c'etait possible parce que c'est ce qu'il nous avait dit avant de claquer la porte. BAM #2. Nous etions donc rendues a Bhaktapur. Encore une fois, il etait tres tot, la lumiere etait magnifique pour les photos et les touristes encore absents. Rapidement, ...
Bhaktapur
... not out until just before eleven. We walk to Bhawal Barg and get two of the last seats on an express minibus to Bhaktapur. Bhaktapur does not allow cars in the city; it is eight kilometers east of Kathmandu. The irony is that to reach it, ...
In the Jungle, the Royal Chitwan...
Last night the generator kept going out, so I kept waking up and it was totally dark. Electricity is a big problem in Nepal. When it was finally morning, I looked out our window and could see all of the Himalayas! It was a perfect clear day. My mom ...
Shivaratri and Bhaktapur
... to the river to do some offerings. On the next trip, my host family took me to Bhaktapur. It's a city lying 14km East of Kathmandu. We went to the darbar square which is very well preserved and roamed around the city ...
A few days in Bhaktapur
... us together! It was a very funny moment and Nathan promptly took one too. Apparently I'm one of the chief attractions of Bhaktapur! That evening we took a culinary tour of the town. Up to that point we had been extremely disappointed with the food, ...
Escape from Kathmandu
This pretty, orange city is the second of the three old cities in Nepal. Kathmandu; Patna; Bhaktapur. One a day trip, Bhaktapur has all the antique charm tourists have trashed in Kathmandu. On the entrance permit reads 'Welcome to the City of ...
Medievil town with some goats head on a platter...
... on the weather in Lukla to change. So I left the city to go to another but much smaller city of 225,000 inhabitants called Bhaktapur. It's an old medievil town which used to be the most powerful city state in the Katmandu valley. I took a small ...
HIdden Gem
... terrace.There are so many of them and yet I failed so impressively to get a single decent photo. Defeated we headed to Bhaktapur via another beautiful but hair-raising country road. This small town of 75,000 has about 1100 years of history and ...
Venturing outside the capitial, Orientation Week P
... but the feeling that I arrived had not yet come on me until then. I smiled to myself and thought 'finally, welcome to Nepal'. Halfway through it there was one rapid which was just insane. We had to jump out from the boat and go around ...
Need for a Different Point of View
... and I decided that it was time to move. I needed a more quite place, I needed less tourist, I needed less cars and motorbikes. Bhaktapur. A little Newar city 16 km east of Kathmandu. It took somewhere close to one hour by bus, but once there I was happy ...
Bhaktapur's Quest
... one of those experiences that you will always remember. A cup of delicious yoghurt later, I went back downstairs to continue the tour. Bhaktapur has a Durbar Square as well (it basically means palace square so of course it does), with more temples, royal ...
La paix vous dites?
Apres un leve aux aurores, une barre tendre et des cuillerees de beurre de peanut, nous nous sommes dirigees en taxi (comme de vraies bourgeoises!) vers Swayambhunath. Premiere lecon de la journee: fixer (barginner) le prix de la courses avant de mettre ...
Day in the Old City
Early start into the City to explore. Bhaktapur is an incredibly well preserved medieval city. As we passed through the entrance it really was like stepping back in time. The streets are blissfully traffic free apart from the occasional ...
Strikes and Babies
... or pick up ever baby who is crying. Took a mini holiday yesterday evening, Alex and I took a taxi to the city of Bhaktapur, which is about 10 miles about from Kathmandu, and stayed there overnight. Having spent two weeks in Kathmandu, it was ...
Peaceful Cottage and café du mont, Nagarkot
Nagarkot, an internationally renowned resort set on the edge of the kathmandu valley, close to the city of Devotees, Bhaktapur, is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful areas of the country.It is 32 km North-east of Kathmandu. Peaceful cottage ...
Goodbye and Thank You
I thought for long about what I would have written on this last post. I imagined tons of hyperbolic sentences on what I've learned from this trip. About the people, about the nature, about traveling, about myself. Then I came back and I looked at that ...
Bhaktapur
Die Stadt Bhaktapur liegt eigentlich direkt vor den Toren Kathmandus. Mit dem Taxi braucht man dorthin aufgrund des Verkehrschaos doch etwas ueber eine Stunde. Als eine der wenigen Staedte in Nepal verfuegt diese doch recht grosse Stadt noch ueber ...
Villlage Life
On Monday, shortly after an early lunch, we packed the hostel's little van to leave for a little village community south of Kathmandu. The village, in Lamatar, was just under an hours drive to some (very welcomed) peace. The village was in complete ...
Bhaktapur
... families all travel to be together, they dress up in new clothes and generally eat, drink and make merry! So that was Bhaktapur! I had an early breakfast and left the hotel after getting very clear directions to the bus station. I had no problem locating ...