Kathmandu photos

The historic center of Nepal lies in the Kathmandu Valley where two of the world's great religions, Buddhism and Hinduism, intermingle in extraordinary old temples and shrines. Kathmandu is a fabled capital of convivial pilgrims and carved rose-brick temples, and a frenetic sprawl of modern towers, mobbed by beggars and monkeys and smothered in diesel fumes. Durbar Square with octagonal Krishna Temple, Swayambhunath Buddhist Stupa (Monkey Temple) - the most ancient and enigmatic of all the holy shrines in Kathmandu valley, The Great Stupa of Boudhanath.