The previous post I only share about my 1st and 2nd day trip in Nepal. Now I'm going to share about my 3rd and 4th day in Nepal.
As usual we had our breakfast in the hotel before we head out for more adventure trip. On our 3rd day we asked the hotel staff to recommend us 3 places that is nice to go to in Kathmandu, first place is Bhaktapur Municipality, Bhaktapur is another cultural and historical heritage place to go and know more about Nepal. When we arrived we get ourselves a tour guide to tour us around in Bhaktapur and he is quite a nice guy and he did explain to us quite clearly and brought us to quite a few alley which I don't think we will manage to find it if we walk on our own.
So first of all the tour guard did a slight introduce of Bhaktapur to us which I can see it in the map of Bhaktapur. ( Shown Below )
and not to forget that we always have to buy an entry ticket before we can go in the entry ticket is selling at (RS 1500.00) which is about (SGD 19.00) but I find that it's okay to pay for this price because I get to go in to see and understand more about Bhaktapur in Nepal.
( This is how the entry ticket look like as you can see the price is stated at the top right hand corner)
Bhaktapur is another cultural and historical heritages durbar square in Kathmandu, but is different from the first Hanuman-dhoka durbar square that I went earlier on my 2nd day.
The different between this two is : Hanuman-dhoka durbar square is more of a temples and shrines of both Hindu and Buddhist but for Bhaktapur is you can see more of handicraft produce that is made by their own local people.
Look as you can see from the moment you're at the entrance you can already see all this handicraft thing that made by them hang up on the wall for sales is nice and I'm really amaze by their work that do for sure I can't do it like that look at the 3rd photo above.
Further up when you walk inner you will get to see more interesting things inside, like the photo you see below actual there's some shop house inside selling other stuff too.
But of cause this place is not a place for you to shop this is a place for you to understand a little bit more about their cultural and historical heritage.
Look at the Durbar Square of Bhatgoan. In
Us standing on the stair of Vastsala temple
The big bell, the bell of barking dogs.
Me following behind the tour guide entering the golden gate. This Golden Gate statue of King Bhupatindra Malla perching on the top of stone monoliths.
the guide told us that this is the king's shower.
The above picture is The Golden Spout.
The picture above is the popular 55 Windows Palace.
Why 55 windows ? The tour guard said in the olden days when female that is not married can't step out of the house and whenever they have any event they only can look from the windows that's why they have this 55 windows palace.
After that our tour guide brought us to this alley that their local make their own pot.
This is where they heat up the pot after shaping it.
This is a way they dry the pot and from what the tour guide said the men they are the ones that make the pot and the women will be the ones that help them to sun and dry the pot.
Us standing infront of the Siddhi Laxmi Temple, 17th Century
After that we had our lunch at one of the restaurant which you can sit and the roof top and see the whole view of Durbar Square.
Yummy Yummy look at their local food is always at a portion that is just nice for me and is always come in a balance of vegetable and meat I find it healthy. ( =
After our lunch we went to this temple called Pashupathinath.
Pashupathinath is the oldest Hindu temple in Kathmandu.
The temple was built in the 17th century by King Bhupatindra Malla after the previous building had been consumed by termites. Surrounding the main building itself are newer structures.
Situated along the banks of the Bagmati river this bustling place is rich in culture and heritage.
As we proceeded further, one event that caught our attention was the actual cremation of human bodies by the river banks, Something that we do not see here in Singapore. At the river banks, the body is prepared for cremation traditionally on funeral pyres.
After that we went to another Heritage site called The Great Boudha Stupa.
This great Majestic Boudha Stupa stands approximately 6 - 7km North East from center of the Kathmandu valley. This Great Stupa is also called the Stupa of enlightenment or Bodhi Stupa, it is also known as Jhyarung Khashyour and is one of the largest and most significant Buddhist monument in the world.
While we're walking we saw a lot people walking at the top of the Boudha Stupa so we also went inside the temple and walk a few rounds too.
Most of the people or local will circumambulation and offering of Boudha Stupa and they will walk around in a clockwise direction. Just like most Hindu and Buddhist will do when they go to a temple to pray or to wish for something or you could say is like their devotional practice.
After this we when back for our dinner and went for some shopping.
Take note : I will advise people that is interested to go to this few places that I wrote about you can go at almost anytime of the year but if you want to see and experience more about their culture you might want to consider to go maybe early of the year from Dec to May because they will have some Festivals Celebrated at certain temple. But of cause you could always find it out more before you go.
That's all I'm going to share about it of my 3rd day in Kathmandu Nepal. Will be sharing more about my 4th and 5th day in Kathmandu Nepal real soon.
After this we when back for our dinner and went for some shopping.
Take note : I will advise people that is interested to go to this few places that I wrote about you can go at almost anytime of the year but if you want to see and experience more about their culture you might want to consider to go maybe early of the year from Dec to May because they will have some Festivals Celebrated at certain temple. But of cause you could always find it out more before you go.
That's all I'm going to share about it of my 3rd day in Kathmandu Nepal. Will be sharing more about my 4th and 5th day in Kathmandu Nepal real soon.