Kathmandu Valley 1 Day Tour...
Kathmandu largest metropolitan city of Nepal is providing the residence for more than one million people throughout the four corners of Nepal. In fact people from the entire seventy five districts are staying in Kathmandu. There are various histories about Kathmandu valley but regardless of that in present Kathmandu valley is the collection of old monuments, temples, durbar square along with famous pilgrim spot of Hindu people i.e. Pasupatinath Temple, Famous Swoyambunath Stupa along with Bauddhanath and numerous temple full of ancient wooden carves and sculpture. NEST Adventure had announced the one day package tour of Kathmandu Valley covering major center of attraction along with government authorized city guide and private car.
There are five places which should be submitted in the list for single day sight seen in Kathmandu. They are briefly described below:
Kathmandu Durbar Square
Bouddhanath
Swoyambhunath
Swoyambhunath Nepal is also called as monkey temple as it is like home to thousands of monkey residing nearby forest of Stupa. Located at the hillside is excellent view point of entire Kathmandu valley. With amazing story behind its construction is home of three different architectural style of monuments as one can see stupa style, pyagoda style and sikhar style.
Pashupatinath
Pashupatinath, a temple situated by the side of international airport is major attraction of Kathmandu. Hindu temple is considered as the head of Lord Shiva which is the main reason why this is the centre of faith for Hindu People throughout the world. For foreigner another centre of attraction is funeral process, where dead body of Hindu People is being burned as the cremation process. Only Hindu people are allowed to enter inside temple rest other are forbidden for entering.
Patan Durbar Square
Patan Nepal is best example of wood carvings and stone carving. Famous place inside Patan Durbar Square are kumari ghar, golden temple, Patan Museum, Krishna Mandir, Statue of King Bhupatendra Malla with bird on his head, Durbar Square, Ashok Pillar etc. One can buy some metal carving as well as wood and stone carving as souvenir from vendors.
Do I need to pay entrée fee to visit these sites?
As above sites as listed in UNESCO world's heritage site one need to pay certain amount as entrée fee before entering those squares, temples and stupa. There is different rate for foreigner one separate for SAARC country people and another for rest. One can directly pay at the counter located in front of main entrance.
How can I get there?
Although these places are located inside the Kathmandu valley it is quite impractical to walk. One can rent a cab but which is not safe and reliable, as well as bit expensive in compare to rent a car in Nepal. As cab will charge disposal for waiting hour, not reliable and trust worthy in compare to vehicles hired from car Rental Company in Nepal. We offer car, jeep, coaster on base of number of people in a group at fix rate which will pick you from the hotel, take to each and every sites, wait in parking till you finish exploring the entire sites then after took you to another sites and finally drop back to hotel. The thing is our professional drivers are English Speaking; trust worthy you can leave your baggage (except money and important documents) in vehicles even during walking which you cannot in public cab, there might be difficulty in monetary transaction with cab as they increase fair in meter unreasonably and many other factors. So we highly request our entire valuable customer to hire vehicles for sightseeing around Kathmandu valley. We offer compact hatchback to luxurious sedan, sport utility vehicles as well as big coaster, so please feel free to mail us at [email protected] for further inquiry regarding car rental in Nepal.
There are five places which should be submitted in the list for single day sight seen in Kathmandu. They are briefly described below:
Kathmandu Durbar Square
- listed in UNESCO world heritage site
- consist of Kumari Ghar (House of living goddess on Nepal), Hanuman Dokha Palace, Taleju Temple, Basantapur Square a famous place to hang out,
- all this listed place are from 12th century to 18th century
- museum inside the Durbar Square which is free to explore when you purchase the entry ticket for Durbar Square area
- the entire houses in Durbar Square are well carved and painted with beautiful courtyard full of street vendor for curio goods and other items.
- Swoyambunath Stupa .
- listed in world heritage site
- One of the holiest places for Buddhist Pilgrims
- The shrine with the eye of Buddha on all four sides is supposed to be two thousand year old shrine
- As it is situated in the top of small hill along with some forest beautiful aerial view of Kathmandu valley can be observed from the top of the hill
- Temple also known as watchful eye of Buddha is full of monkey as it provides shelter for thousands of monkey every night
- at the top of the Stupa there is also numbers of street vendor same like in Kathmandu Durbar Square focusing on foreigner selling post cards, curio goods and some vintage game board known as Bhagchal in Nepali
Bouddhanath
- situated in the north eastern side of Kathmandu and listed in World Heritage Site
- sometimes also named as Khasti
- Consist of forty five monasteries with in the area reflecting pure Buddhism as a religion
- There are some school which are only for Buddhist people to became monk where we can see number of small kid running with blond hair and red Buddhist dress
- A huge shrine which looks identical to Swoyambunath is surrounded in three hundred and sixty degree by house where several café and curios shops are conducting their business.
- Pasupatinath Temple
- according to Hindu mythology it is one of the temples which should be visited by Hindu people at least once in their lifetime
Swoyambhunath
Swoyambhunath Nepal is also called as monkey temple as it is like home to thousands of monkey residing nearby forest of Stupa. Located at the hillside is excellent view point of entire Kathmandu valley. With amazing story behind its construction is home of three different architectural style of monuments as one can see stupa style, pyagoda style and sikhar style.
Pashupatinath
Pashupatinath, a temple situated by the side of international airport is major attraction of Kathmandu. Hindu temple is considered as the head of Lord Shiva which is the main reason why this is the centre of faith for Hindu People throughout the world. For foreigner another centre of attraction is funeral process, where dead body of Hindu People is being burned as the cremation process. Only Hindu people are allowed to enter inside temple rest other are forbidden for entering.
Patan Durbar Square
Patan Nepal is best example of wood carvings and stone carving. Famous place inside Patan Durbar Square are kumari ghar, golden temple, Patan Museum, Krishna Mandir, Statue of King Bhupatendra Malla with bird on his head, Durbar Square, Ashok Pillar etc. One can buy some metal carving as well as wood and stone carving as souvenir from vendors.
Do I need to pay entrée fee to visit these sites?
As above sites as listed in UNESCO world's heritage site one need to pay certain amount as entrée fee before entering those squares, temples and stupa. There is different rate for foreigner one separate for SAARC country people and another for rest. One can directly pay at the counter located in front of main entrance.
How can I get there?
Although these places are located inside the Kathmandu valley it is quite impractical to walk. One can rent a cab but which is not safe and reliable, as well as bit expensive in compare to rent a car in Nepal. As cab will charge disposal for waiting hour, not reliable and trust worthy in compare to vehicles hired from car Rental Company in Nepal. We offer car, jeep, coaster on base of number of people in a group at fix rate which will pick you from the hotel, take to each and every sites, wait in parking till you finish exploring the entire sites then after took you to another sites and finally drop back to hotel. The thing is our professional drivers are English Speaking; trust worthy you can leave your baggage (except money and important documents) in vehicles even during walking which you cannot in public cab, there might be difficulty in monetary transaction with cab as they increase fair in meter unreasonably and many other factors. So we highly request our entire valuable customer to hire vehicles for sightseeing around Kathmandu valley. We offer compact hatchback to luxurious sedan, sport utility vehicles as well as big coaster, so please feel free to mail us at [email protected] for further inquiry regarding car rental in Nepal.