Malla Kathmandu

... Rhino, Tiger, WildBoar, birds watching. Visited Elephant centre. Enjoy beautiful yellow mustard plantation 18-Dec: headed back to Kathmandu/Bhaktabur, saw Bodhnath (largest stupa), public cremation on Bakmati river 19-Dec: end of this memorable journey

At the Fast Food Cafe Ashok told us that two Sikh hijackers had been caught trying to transport a bomb from Kathmandu to Delhi. The landlord of our hotel intercepted us with the startling declaration that we hadn't paid our hotel bills. I said we had ...

... bedding change works, and Dianne gets no further bites during the night. Sunday 2nd October     Kathmandu (Pashupatinah, Bodhnath, Monkey temple, Durbar Square) ...

... working on the construction of a bridge. When the guy finished his work he paid for Hari Malla to fly to Kathmandu. Hari Malla had found a job washing dishes for our present hotel, working up to becoming the rep for oncoming coaches. He never returned to ...

... of King Ratna Malla (1484-1520) the palaces in the square became the royal palaces for its Malla kings. When Prithvi Narayan Shah invaded the Kathmandu Valley in 1769, he also favored the Kathmandu Durbar Square for his palace. Other subsequent Shah ...

... particular stupa is located on a special point that is considered holy because it rose out of the ancient lake that once filled the Kathmandu Valley.  You can theoretically get a great view of Kathmandu from the top of the stupa, but for us it was ...

... to the Russian people, and so she had much to do with the Hare Krishna's efforts in Moscow. She told us there was a temple in Kathmandu that gave out free prasadam. I loved the idea to go and see Krishna and sing bhajans before him again. We went there ...

... , about Diti wanting to have a son to kill Indra. Passing young men teased us with propositions but we ignored them. Hari Malla turned up very late with three guys and all was not well. They were talking about us. There had been complaints saying that it ...

... Kathmandu também esta inserida em um vale e a historia local possui registros de habitantes desde o século 7 a.C., embora a capital oficial Kathmandu somente tenha sido fundada no século XII, durante a dinastia Malla. Desta forma, quando digo Old Town, ...

... reserved seats were actually Wan & I sharing with 2 large ladies plus their kids. Bus climbed alongside a river heading north. Kathmandu is a very busy polluted city. Not that high and in a valley and chokka with high-end tourists as well as low-end ...

... was a reasonable price we decided to make it our temporary home. The boy whose name was Hari Malla was to become a good friend of ours. Walking around Kathmandu was simply a joy because unlike in India we could move freely without the fear of lusty men ...

... by Oad I think I will book some tours. October 7th: after breakfast I walked to the city centre to visit Kathmandu's Durbar (means palace) Square.Clustered around the central Durbar Square are the old Royal Palace (Hanuman Dhoka), where the king no ...

... started laughing. When I asked again they refused to say anything. Tears fell down my cheeks at the rudeness and we went off on our way. In Kathmandu we took Malas bike back as it had a time limit, and then she sat on the back of my bike to carry on our ...

... Mandu'. We returned our rented bags and sold back the hiking poles. Didn't want our duffle bag at all. We are at the Malla Hotel a 5 star hotel by Ktm standards. The food has been excellent. Our time has been spent coming to this internet shop. We ...

... young workers seemed quite fascinated by us. We went to sit on our roof and I painted a picture of a blue Krishna. When Hari Malla came I painted him as well. Strolling out in the evening we came upon a group of old men and boys playing devotional bhajans ...

... town and watched the rugby as per my last entry. The following day I dragged myself around a sight seeing tour of Kathmandu, feeling slightly worse for wear after the night before.  The only problem with the Buddhist mentality ...

Having moved to the fantastic Hotel Malla in central Kathmandu, we met up with the rest of our trekking group: Jill and Simon from Scotland and Vic from Harrowgate. And, dosed up on antibiotics and a mix of painkillers, we set off early on Sunday 31st on ...