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Patan (Lalitpur) Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Patan (Lalitpur), Nepal
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Puttering around Patan
This is a top pick! Patan is just across the Bagmati River, south of Kathmandu. Its ancient name was Lalitpur, meaning "city of beauty". Patan is known for its beautiful Durbar Sqaure and the temples and buildings surrounding it. It is also known for its artisans, ...
Retreat to the Mountains
The Roof. My life has become based around roofs. I wake and head to the roof to watch sunrise as I stretch and gather morning thoughts into my journal. In midday, I shower and then clammer up stairs to sit on a stool and flip my hair over to dry in the ...
New year
If you didn't know, Nepal has a different calendar. On April 12 of the gregorian calendar we celebrated new year! In Nepal is year 2065 now! Eventhough new year is not itself such a big deal, there are many festivities all week long around teh Kathmnandu ...
Kathmandu
I moved out of my Japanese friend's home (since he moved his home to the villages) to resettle in Patan, the suburbs of Kathmandu. I stay here with a Nepali family and ten orphaned ...
Red
... (in the previous week I was hopping the stairs, merciless Emei Shan). Wake up! I knew what to expect on the way to Patan (aka Lalitpur, Yala, etc..etc..etc..places, deities, persons or objects names multiply when it comes to this part of the world). I've ...
Patan and another Durbar Square
Here are the pictures of Patan, just South of Kathmandu... Voici les photos de Patan, au Sud de ...
City of beauty
We slept until noon and then changed to a cheaper hotel nearby. We went visiting Patan, south area of Kathmandu. The taxi rides are always interesting. They drive a bit crazy, on the left hand and buzz the all time. Patan Durbar Sq is similar to the one ...
Patan Durbar Square
Eilisen päivän tapaan oli tarkotus lähteä bussilla kohden Patanin kaupunkia vähän Kathmandusta etelään. Eli ei muuta kun pysäkille ja huutelemaan busseille tällä kerralla vähän helpompaa sanaa. 20 minuuttia siinä seisottuani totesin, että ...
Elephant Man
... if he doesn't spend some money in purchasing something more tangible than pictures, blog posts and memories. So today after visiting tiny Patan's Durbar Square, I just went all the way to Thamel by foot (my lungs, nurtured by a decade of Lucky Strike ...
Final day/ night in KMD
... was really beautiful and walked clockwise round it before heading to Pashputinath along the Bagmati river, the most important Hindu temple in Nepal where the cremation ghats are. We then went to Freak street for Belch to get her tattoo! She had met the ...
An ending to a journey.
... . It is similar to the Durbar square of Kathmandu but with a higher concentration of temples, stupas in a smaller area. Patan has a long Buddhist history (that i wont get into and dont know fully) with most of the buildings being erected in ...
In the Valley of the Three Kingdoms
... may believe, this wasn't just to avoid us). Undeterred, this focused our attentions on Bhaktapur and Patan, areas with an important part to play in Nepal's history. The Malla dynasty ruled Nepal from Kathmandu until 1482 when Yaksha Malla died, dividing ...
Patan
... 't know what to say. There are a lot families who need a lot of help right now in my hometown. It certainly puts into perspective my two frustrating days spent at Nepal Immigration and the Indian Embassy. Patan was nice; a lot like ...
Katmandu sin exhaust
... inspiring than the Durbar square in Kathmandu, well worth the journey for this alone. Other highlights were Kathmandu zoo (in Patan), a surprisingly good zoo and a fantastic Chance for Mela to take some cool photo's. The low-lite, without a doubt was ...
Patan
... largest town in the Kathmandu Valley and it's Durbar Square supposedly has the most visually stunning display of Newari architecture in Nepal (according to the Lonely Planet), so we took a day trip to Patan. Durbar Square in Patan seemed much ...
A base de temples....
... et au soleil pour bronzer un peu et fumer un joko. Puis continuons a deambuler dans les rues poussiereuses, mais superbes, de Patan. beaucoup de maisons ont des encadrements en bois cisele d'une beaute incroyable, des petits temples sont dissemines un peu ...
Getting Our Freak On, Durbar Sq & Patan Statues
... to a statue beofre taking off in a cycle rickshaw to buy some of the beautiful copper and gold statues of the Buddha in Patan (Lalitpur-The City Of Beauty). The cycle driver ripped us off by taking us to the wrong place so we had to catch a ...
Besihar
Besihar was a 7h bus journey from Kathmandu just off the main road. We managed to get a free room if we ate at the place. We also had to pay an extautionate rate for the bus and the taxi to get there but i dont want to talk about that :-) We got an ...
The return to teaching...for a little bit!
... days, and i will never forget the man with the excessively long legs and Kathmandu's only trance bar. For anyone planning a trip to Nepal, the funky buddha is ll it is cracked up to be....just dont order a Funky buddha special salad...Kitty and Nells, ...
Bhaktapur & Patan
... days later. I still need to write her back and send her the picture we took together. After Bhaktapur we drove to Patan, another city outside Kathmandu famous for its temples. It's central Durbar Square boasts something like 12 temples, varying between ...
Visite de Patan
... plus avoir. Pour le retour, nous prenons d'ailleurs un bus local: 25 Rps pour les 2. Ça va, nous avons fait une bonne moyenne :-) Patan: nous n'avons pas choisi le bon jour pour la visite. Il pleut, il pleut et il pleut. Ça n'a pas l'air de vouloir ...
Zoomandu
... heard that some of them like to snap bags or even cameras. In many ways the "wildlife" is more exotic in Nepal than in Norway, although I wouldn´t mind getting rid of the cockroaches it´s still fascinating with the monkeys jumping over your head ...
Temple visits
We spent Friday afternoon in Kathmandu´s city center Thamel. Thamel is maybe the most populated and touristic place of Nepal. It´s a whole mess with lots of people, bikes and cars driving in the small streets, and the houses are completely covered by ...
Beetje oude cultuur
... zicht en ervaring daar nu nog in rond te lopen ... mooi en van een heel andere wereldsfeer! Het Museum of Patan, spant de kroon! Sculpturen van Boedhistische en Hindoeistische origine en Tantristische teksten, selectief, ...
Without Lalitpurpose
... every two months. Enough moaning Anyway after this we went a took a walk around Patan which everyone calls Lalitpur and not Patan. Lalitpur even though only being literally across the river from Kathmandu, was its own independant state until ...
Never lost..just misplaced
... he seems to be coping so far. Am looking forward to being a bit more of a tourist in his presence and to finally seeing Patan Durbar square, a cultural landmark a mere 15 minutes away that I have yet to appreciate. Here's to a brilliant end of the ...
Don't worry, no hurry!
... a cliff. I initially thought it had stopped to be polite and let other buses come down the hill, then remembered we were in Nepal! Luckily the 3 hours we waited on the side of the road in pitch black for a new bus went surprisingly quickly. Unfortunately ...
Une finale Patan et Katmandou
... 'le et cache des trésors infinis, et un musée qui se déguste avec appétit ! Allez-y en marchant de Katmandou à Patan, voyez cette vie qui bien qu'à première vue chaotique, s'entremêle à merveille sur elle-même... Salut Népal, je te laisse ...
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