One Day Tour

Our day tour begins from the UNESCO World Heritage Site-Kathmandu Durbar Square picking up you at the hotel at 9:00 am. Visiting the old wooden temples, move to the next sister city-Patan, museum of fine arts. We will have a short tea break or if you want we can have lunch as well then we go to next place. Then, we drive to our final site Swoyambhunath popularly known as Monkey Temple. This tour will end around 4 to 5 o’ clock. Then we will drop you to the hotel. In details about our destinations are following:

Kathmandu Durbar Square:

Kathmandu Durbar Square is one of the most popular tourist destination as enlisted in World Heritage Sites. Clustered around the central Durbar Square is called the old Royal Palace (Hanuman Dhoka), numerous interesting temples, the Kumari Chowk or Kumari Bahal (House of the Living Goddess) and the Kasthamandap (House of Wood) from which Kathmandu derived its present name. Kumari tradition is one of the most famous and traditional cultures in Nepal which gives the space for the young girls to be revered as living goddess. Chosen in her very young age, she needs to meet some physical as well as psychological criteria designed by the priests. She is kept in Kumari house as the goddess till her puberty and then she gets retired.

Apart from Kumari, An exquisite exploration in the Durbar Square reveals the ancient art and architecture of Nepal. We can see ancient royal palace courtyards embellished with beautiful wooden carvings and the temples with erotic scenes.

Patan Durbar Square:

Patan Durbar Square, like its counterpart in Kathmandu, is an enchanting mélange of palace buildings, artistic courtyards and graceful pagoda temples. It has earned its fame as the name of Lalitpur literally it means city of beauty or beautiful city. It feels as if we are visiting a open live museum when we explore this city. For the metal arts, Patan is very popular. Listed as a World Heritage Sites, the former royal palace complex is the center of religious and social life of Patan, and houses a museum containing an array of bronze statues and religious objects. One remarkable monument here is a 17th-century temple dedicated to the Hindu god Krishna, built entirely of stone.

The main attractions in Patan Durbar Squarre:-
Besides above mentioned places to visit, there are other significant sites to be explored:-

Golden Temple
Krishna Mandir

Jagat Narayan
Mahaboudha
Machchhendranath Temple
Patan museum

Swoyambhunath:

Swoyambhunath is located approximately 4 kilometers and this Buddhist Stupa/Chaitya is said to be 2500 years old. The Stupa which forms the main structure is composed of a solid hemisphere of bricks and earth supporting a lofty conical spire capped by a pinnacle of copper gilt. Painted on the four sided base of the spire are the all-seeing eyes of Lord Buddha. This hill is a mosaic of small Chaitya and Pagoda temples.