Kathmandu city tour

Overview of the kathmandu city tour

Kathmandu city tour is a day tour around the top spot to see in the Kathmandu valley. Kathmandu city tour consists of a tour of the 4 World Heritage Sites of Kathmandu city out of 7 World Heritage Sites of the whole Kathmandu valley. Kathmandu valley is divided into the 3 Major cities Namely Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur and on this Kathmandu city tour, we just visit the Kathmandu city which takes a 1 full day. In your Kathmandu city tour, you will be able to see the Nepalese culture, traditions, lifestyle, history, Buddhism, wood architecture and many other interesting things. Many of you may wonder what sort of things that you will see on the Kathmandu city tour to decide whether you like it or not as per your taste. We have tried to explain in a short summary of the places you will visit on your Kathmandu valley sightseeing tour.

The Pashupatinath temple

The Pashupatinath Temple is a top sacred Hindu temple complex in Nepal, Located on the banks of the holy Bagmati River. From the centre of the main Kathmandu, it is on the 5km north-east. Millions of the Hindu Devotees visit the Pashupatinath in a year and there are certain festivals on which the temples get absolutely overcrowded. Lord Shiva is the main god whose temple is known as the Pashupatinath and there are many other multiple temples for the different Hindu gods and deities in the area of the Pashupatinath. Visitors can see the Hindu people funeral here on the bank of the Pashupatinath in the Bhasmeshowr ghat. Burning the Hindu dead body here is the way of the salvation according to the Hindu beliefs that are the reason you can see many cremations here with the multiple other temples and the Sadhus.

Festival in Pashupatinath temple.

There are festivals which are celebrated in Pashupatinath temples such as Maha Shivaratri, Teej, Shaun Shankranti and many others. Shivaratri is one of the biggest festivals which is celebrated on the Pashupatinath temple. On this festival, the shiva devotees come to Pashupatinath temple to get the blessings from Pashupatinath and smokes weeds. Thousands of the Indian sadhus gather on this festival.
Teej is another women festival. They do fasting and on that day they visit the Pashupatinath temple wishing their family prosperity and the long life.

Boudhanath Stupa

Boudhanath Stupa has located about 11 km (6.8 mi) from the centre and northeastern outskirts of Kathmandu. This is one of the spherical stupas in Nepal. Visiting this stupa allows you to know about Buddhism and the influence of Buddhism in the local community of Kathmandu. There are many monasteries around the Stupa built by the Tibetan refugee who arrived in Nepal after china invaded the Tibet in 1950. No one knows the exact date of when the stupa was built but they believe that there are the relics of the Kashyap Buddha. The Kashyap Buddha is Buddha before the Sakya Muni Gautam Buddha. The Stupa is built on the octagonal shape above it there is a massive dome and above that, there is a colourful spiral just below the pinnacles. Colourful prayer flags are hung around the stupas.

Swayambhunath Stupa

Swaymbhunath stupa is another biggest stupa with its importance located in the west from the centre of Kathmandu is on the hillock. Known as a monkey temple among the foreigners it is another attraction for the tourist to see. The major thing here you can see is Basabandhu Stupa, Shantipur Bihar, Dipankar Buddha statue, Pratappur, Anantapur, Biggest bajra, Azima temple, different statue of Bhairav and the beautiful dome style shrine. You can see the most of Kathmandu valley from the yard of Swyambhunath stupa so this is not to miss on your visit

Kathmandu Durbar Square

The Kathmandu durbar square is also known as a Basaantapur Durbar Square and Hanuman Dhoka among the locals is one of the best places of Newar people civilization and thing to observe. The kumara temple “Living goddess”, Kashatamandap temple, Shiva Parbati temple, Bishnu temple, hippie temple, white bhairav, Kal Bhirav, Taleju temple, Vasudev temple and many other temples around here to see. The durbar square itself is a magnificent place to see the wooden architecture and Nepalese buildings who they used to build in the past 2-3 hundreds of years ago.

Highlights of Kathmandu City Tour

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