In
Kathmandu there is, on top of a small but steep hill, a very special place. It is a Buddhist temple and although its proper name is
Swayambhunath Temple, everybody know it with the more familiar name of
monkey temple. There are in fact tons of monkey roaming around. Really funny animals. And if you spend just a couple of minutes looking at them, you can really see how familiar they look. To me, they really look like small people, especially when they are taking care of their babies ...
The temple is actually a set of small temple and a stupa, with a lot of shops on top of a small hill. Very cozy. It is a very nice warm feeling to see a very small village, with people of all the ages, that is living around this temple ...
The stupa is definitely the nicest religious building in the complex, and these are some of the pictures that I took there. On the stupa there is the profile of Lord Buddha, with his three eyes. The nose is painted with the same shape of the number 1 in Sanskrit (even if it looks like a question mark) and represent the unity of the Buddhism religion (or at least, this is what I was told). Really beautiful ...
And these are some of the pictures that I took in the evening from the monkey temple, we really spent a perfect day up here. I simply loved it ...
In Kathmandu there is, on top of a small but steep hill, a very special place. It is a Buddhist temple and although its proper name is Swayambhunath Temple, everybody know it with the more familiar name of monkey temple. There are in fact tons of monkey roaming around. Really funny animals. And if you spend just a couple of minutes looking at them, you can really see how familiar they look. To me, they really look like small people, especially when they are taking care of their babies ...
The temple is actually a set of small temple and a stupa, with a lot of shops on top of a small hill. Very cozy. It is a very nice warm feeling to see a very small village, with people of all the ages, that is living around this temple ...
The stupa is definitely the nicest religious building in the complex, and these are some of the pictures that I took there. On the stupa there is the profile of Lord Buddha, with his three eyes. The nose is painted with the same shape of the number 1 in Sanskrit (even if it looks like a question mark) and represent the unity of the Buddhism religion (or at least, this is what I was told). Really beautiful ...
And these are some of the pictures that I took in the evening from the monkey temple, we really spent a perfect day up here. I simply loved it ...
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