Bhaktapur

Bhaktapur/Nagarkot/Tamar’s 28th Birthday

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February 12th 2009
This past weekend, we ventured beyond Kathmandu city for the first time. We visited Bhaktapur and Nagarkot, two of the Kathmandu valley’s more popular tourist locals. Bhaktapur was one of the valley’s original city kingdoms before Nepal unified in the 18th century. It has some of the oldest historical landmarks in Nepal, as well as, of course, an obscene amount of pagodas and stupas. At this p ... read more

Asia » Nepal

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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