A ridge village at 2,100 m on the valley rim, with a Himalayan panorama that can reach Everest on the clearest mornings.
Stay overnight rather than driving up before dawn — the road takes 90 minutes and the mountains are only reliably clear in October, November and early spring.
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The best-preserved of the three royal squares, with the 55-Window Palace, Nyatapola temple and a…
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One of the largest stupas in the world and the centre of Tibetan Buddhism in Nepal, ringed by…
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Nepal's holiest Hindu site, on the Bagmati, where open-air cremations take place on the ghats…
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The most concentrated collection of Newari architecture anywhere, with a royal palace turned museum…