KATHMANDU

KATHMANDU — A CITY WHERE EVERYDAY LIFE AND SPIRITUAL RITUAL SHARE THE SAME GROUND

Kathmandu doesn’t separate the sacred from the ordinary — they live on the same streets. Prayer flags move in the wind above traffic, bells ring from temple courtyards as shopkeepers open their shutters, incense mixes with dust and diesel in the same air, and ancient stupas sit in the middle of neighbourhoods that never stopped adapting. Kathmandu is not polished — it is real, layered and deeply human.

If you travel for places that feel lived rather than staged, Kathmandu leaves a mark.

The city reveals itself in moments you don’t plan:
– Monks and motorbikes circling the same stupa at dawn
– Metalworkers hammering by hand near centuries-old shrines
– Narrow lanes of Asan Bazaar packed with colour and noise
– Courtyards where locals sit quietly under carved windows
– Tea stalls where time seems to slow for a few minutes before the street takes over again

Kathmandu is also the doorway to the rest of Nepal — to the Himalayas, to trekking villages, to meditation retreats, to wildlife plains and lake towns. But starting here matters: it gives you the sound, the smell, the ritual and the humanity before the mountains mute everything else with their quiet.

People don’t forget Kathmandu because it doesn’t try to impress — it simply lives in its truth.

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