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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. ... read more
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Nepalese Flag 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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