Kathmandu: the soul of all (Photos)

Kathmandu is located in the northwest of Kathmandu Valley, at the confluence of the bagmati River and Bixing Marty River, known as "the paradise" reputation. This is an ancient city with a history of over 1000 years,NepalThe dynasties built a large number of palaces, temples, pagodas, palaces and temples here, number, you can simply use the "five steps of a temple, ten step one:" to describe. Therefore, Kathmandu is also known as the "temple city".

Dhurbar square

In Sanskrit, Kathmandu means "one temple", according to legend, in the sixteenth Century ad, Li Javier king in downtown with a tree to build a tower temple building a three eaves. Later, people in the building as the center, be busy at putting up installations, build houses, outward expansion, thus formed the kathmandu. This argument, Kathmandu on the origin of the name, there are a lot of other local legend......

Monkey Temple

Although the origin of the name of Kathmandu is not, but every Kathmandu people, or a visit to the people of Kathmandu have agreed that: in fact, today's Kathmandu has two faces -- it is not only an everywhere over the red temple religious shrine; another disorder, everywhere is full of the monkey, ox, beggars, pedestrians, tricycle urban chaos.

Kathmandu also like many city in China, new, old branch. The old city is Kathmandu western, Metro is a fusion of traditional style and Western culture of the east. Among them, in the old city, in addition to a commercial street in new practice, still keep the traditional style of nepal. In the maze of winding alleys lined, densely crowded with three or four storey building. Under normal circumstances, often upstairs is home, downstairs is the store.

These shops looking from the outside, all look shabby, some stores even did not counter, goods directly piled up on the ground, however, when you walk into a look, but found it had carpeted, furnished with antiques, very refined luxury. And the shopkeepers, mostly lazy sat cross-legged on the side, not to call their own goods, also do not actively soliciting customers.

In addition, in the "time tunnel" as the old alley, is dotted with many small temple. Some monasteries and monks family lived. These monasteries, often with large and smallWhite Pagoda, and these Baita in residential courtyard also often can see.