Day 2: In Kathmandu - Sightseeing
Today morning after breakfast, we will proceed for the sightseeing tour of Pashupatinath Temple & Bouddhanath Stupa. Afternoon sightseeing tour of Patan Durbar Square.
Pashupatinath: This is Nepal’s most sacred Hindu shrine and one of the subcontinent’s great Shiva sites. It expresses the very essence of Hinduism as pilgrims, priests, devotes, temples. The temple’s origins are obscure, an inscription dates from 477, but a shrine may have stood here for 1000 years before that.
Boudhanath: This great stupa is one of Nepal’s most distinctive monuments and one of the most important Buddhist sites in Nepal and, with a diameter of over 100 meters, amongst the largest in the world. There are a number of legends accounting for the stupa’s construction, but it is generally believed to date from the 5th century.
Patan Durbar Square: The finest display of Newari urban architecture in Nepal. There are temples devoted to Shiva, Krishna, Ganesh and Vishnu all actively visited by residents and visitors. The courtyards of the Royal Palace with their ornamented windows, columned arcades, shrines.
Overnight at hotel.