Durbar Square

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August 2nd 2005
Today, I take a taxi and head for Bhaktapur. It is 16 kms from Kathmandu and supposed to be the most beautiful city of the valley of Kathmandu. As we arrive there, I am met with the unpleasant and unfortunately recurrent feeling: tourist rip-off. In Kathmandu and other cities, the kind tourists must pay a tax to have the privilege of entering the old city and the Durbar square. In Kathmandu ... read more

Asia » Nepal » Bhaktapur

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

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