7 March, 2013

Monkey Temple – Kathmandu

While in Kathmandu we decided to visit the iconic Monkey temple, a worship place over run by monkeys. The temple is based on top of a large hill with a rather large staircase leading to it. i haven’t witnessed to many monkeys in the wild before. we had an opportunity to see a few of them in Cambodia but not on this kind of scale. The temple was really beautiful, it had a very peaceful and tranquil feeling to it. There was a center dome and around this there was prayer wheels. There were scores of tourists taking photos, plenty of monkeys running around, the thick smell of insence, and generally a really good felling that came from this place. There were beautiful scenes looking down at Kathmandu, there was even one point where i spotted a monkey sitting on the edge  of a wall taking in the scene. This place is a must see if you are visiting Kathmandu.

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