Here are the top four guidebooks for Nepal that can give you authentic and fun-filled information.
Read MoreKeeping away from places freshly desecrated by natural disasters is a natural reaction, especially for tourists. Such decisions are usually accepted as well founded. Natural disasters, and bigger ones at that, leave hundreds of thousands or even millions of people homeless, without jobs and most importantly with uncertainty over future. As for visitors, such post-disasters […]
Read MoreSoma is exalted in the Rig Veda, an Indo-Iranian scripture, as a drink that brings immortality and divinity to the drinker. Perhaps taking a cue from this reference, Aldous Huxley in his dystopian novel, Brave New World, uses the word ‘soma’ to refer to a recreational hallucinogen. Utopian or dystopian, the fact remains that psychoactive […]
Read MoreThis is the temple of the boar headed Goddess on a human body who is commonly known as Barahi. Bajra stands for a mythical sword of lightning and thunder. She is also considered to be a Matrika, a name given a group of seven or sometimes eight Mother Goddesses. She is regarded as the personification […]
Read MoreKarya Binayak temple in Bungamati is also one of the most important temples in Nepal, is dedicated to Ganesh.
Read MoreUma-Maheswor is one of the famous temples in Kirtipur which is also known as Bhavani Shankar. The temple that is 1418m in elevation and offers a great panoramic view of Kathmandu valley and Himalayan range in the north. Ganesh Himal (7606m), Langtang (7234m), Gauri Shankar (7134m) and Cho Oyu (8201m) are the major peaks easily […]
Read MoreJal Binayak Temple is one of the valley’s most important Ganesh shrines.
Read MoreKathmandu valley was a lake and the hill of Swayambhunath was an Island. Gradually the lake dried up to leave the fertile valley floor we see today.
Read MoreBagh Bhairav temple, one of the oldest shrines in Kirtipur is known for the guardian deity, Bhairav in form of a tiger. The main statue and icon is composed of clay with a large silver mask with depiction of Bhairav.
Read MoreThe pond is named De Pukhu, which in literal sense translates to country’s pond. Located right in the middle of a dense Newar settlement and to the south of Iconic Bagh Bhairav Temple of Kirtipur.
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