Day 114_to_116

Days 114 to 116

We’ll finally visit the Monkey temple (Swayambhunath)!!! We have been here for a week and we haven’t visited it! What a shame!

Swayambhunath is one of the holiest Buddhist Chaityas in Nepal. It is said to have evolved spontaneously when the valley was created out of a primordial lake more than 2,000 years ago. This stupa is the oldest of its kind in Nepal and has numerous shrines and monasteries on its premises.

Guess why it is called the Monkey Temple…

Views from Kathmandu

And the temple: