Monday, August 25, 2014
Everest trek with Gary an Jeremy : EVEREST BASE CAMP TREK
Everest trek with Gary an Jeremy : EVEREST BASE CAMP TREK: EVEREST BASE CAMP( 5360 MT ) 2011 WITH GARY AN JEREMY
Sunday, August 10, 2014
swyambhunath stupa known as monkey tempmle NO WHERE ELSE
According to Swayambhu Puran, the Kathmandu Valley was
once a lake, deemed by scientists asPaleo Kathmandu Lake. The hill where the Swayambu Stupa rests had lotus plants with beautiful lotus flowers
abloom. One story says that the god Manjusri cut a gorge at a place called Kashapaal (later
called Chobhar) with a sword called Chandrahrasha and drained away the waters
in order to establish a habitable land.
According to Gopal Banshawali, Krishna cut
the gorge with his Sudarshana Chakra to let the water out. He then handed the drained
valley to the Gopal Vansi people, who were nomadic cow herders.
Geography
The valley is made up of the Kathmandu District, Lalitpur District and Bhaktapur District covering an area of 220 square miles (almost the
area of Singapore). The valley consists of the municipal areas of Kathmandu
Metropolitan City, Lalitpur Submetropolitan
City, Bhaktapur Municipality, Kirtipur Municipality and Madhyapur Thimi
Municipality; the remaining area is made up of
a number of Village Development Committees. The valley is a cultural and
political hub of Nepal. The Kathmandu valley was accorded the status of a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in
the year 1979.
The major river flowing through the Kathmandu Valley is
the Bagmati
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