Visiting Swayambodath.
October 23rd 2009 Back in Kathmandu, after a long and steamy hot shower.
This buddhist temple, if very similar to Buddhanath in appearance, differs in far much more ways from others. It is not related to the temple being on top of a hill. It is in the decorum that completely surrounds the area. Gold painted statues, plainty of exvotos, far much more popular (so livelier, lovelier?) than the serious Buddhanath.
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