The mythical melds with the modern.
Kathmandu is really two cities: 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. It simultaneously reeks of history and the encroaching wear and tear of the modern world.
Picture Gallery
![]() Curious monkey in window of Swayambhunath Buddhist Temple Photographer: Lindsay Brown |
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