Another view of Durbar Square

Patan

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March 18th 2011
Last weekend two other volunteers and I made a day trip to Patan's Durbar Square. This was much closer to home than Pokhara, in fact just a five minute walk from where we have to change buses to get into Kathmandu from Godavari, so we stayed in the village until Saturday morning. It seemed that the square was slightly smaller than Bhaktapur's Durbar Square - or there were more temples in Patan, as ... read more

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In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. A Maoist in... ... read more