Taleju Temple

This temple is opened only once a year to tourists.

Shiva Parvati Temple

Kathmandu's Durbar Square was built primarily in the 16th and 17th centuries. Like Nepal's other Durbar Squares, it contains a royal palace (a "durbar") and many temples built in a traditional Newar, pagoda style.

The Royal Palace

Built in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Built in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Royal Palace in Kathmandu's Durbar Square is now used by the Royal Family only for ceremonial purposes. in Kathmandu's Durbar Square is now used by the Royal Family only for ceremonial purposes

The Kumari Chowk

At the far end of the square, where the Durbar and Basantapur meet, is the Kumari Bahal (House of the Living Goddess), where the Kumari or the “living goddess” lives. The present Kumari began her service in 1993 at the age of 4½ years old. It is believed that she answers the question you are thinking by the look of her face.

Hariti Temple

Behind the Swayambhunath Stupa is the pagoda-style Hariti Temple. Not only at the platform at the hill top, but also behind the Mini Swayambhunath (or Kathesimbhu Stupa) downtown. This temple has a beautiful image of Hariti, the goddes of smallpox. This Hindu goddess, who is also responsible for fertility, indicates the interweaving of Hinduism and Buddhism in Nepal. It's hard to distinguish the two, especially since they are also interwoven with the exotica of Tantrism on a background of animistic cults from the past. The result is a proliferation of cults, deities and celebrations in variations unique for Nepal and unknown elsewhere on earth. Just look around and wonder.

Swayambhunath (Monkey Temple)

The Swayambhunath Stupa is at the top of a hill. You can reach the terrace, where the stupa is built, by 300 flagstoned steps from the eastern side, the city side. Although it's a nice walk from town and the eastern stairway must be the best way to approach the temple, we visited the temple by taxi, which took us to the car park at the western side. From here we had an easy walk up to the terrace

Bodhnath Stupa

he largest Buddhist stupa around Kathmandu is found at Bodhnath. This used to be out in the country - NE of Kathmandu, about 3-4 km from the ring road. It is north of the large Hindu temple complex of Pashupatinath by a few km and you can easily walk between the two complexes, though it is easy to get lost in the warrens of little streets on the north side of the Bagmati river. The stupa is very large and is ringed by a large walkway in which pilgrims can go - clockwise - around the stupa. The stupa is also ringed by buildings - some are monasteries - most of the buildings are filled with tourist shops and the sound of new age music pours forth from the cd players. Walking up on the stupa and looking to the west, you get a weird contrast as you look over a monastery and see the Hyatt Regency in the distance - seemingly as large as the temples in Lhasa.

Changu Narayan

The temple of Changu Narayan is said to be the most ancient temple in the Kathmandu Valley, its origin goes back to the 4th Century. Located on the top of a spur rising in the eastern part of the valley, it is 22 kilometers from Kathmandu and 4 kilometers north of Bhaktapur. Changu Narayan is one of the seven world heritage sites all over the Kathmanu valley