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So after my auspicious visit to the Pashupati Nath Temple in Kathmandu in the morning time, the guides of our tour guided us all to meet at the Parking so that we could board the buses to reach the Boudhanath Stupa.
It took us around three hours to get outside of the Pashupati Nath Temple. As there was huge crowd that day after everyone was out, our guide told us a little history of where we were going next, and also told us to stick around with each other so that nobody is left behind.
In this photographs, you can see the briefing session that was going on at that time. It was very important as most of the people were not able to use their mobile phones because of the international roaming, and if anyone gets lost, it was going to be a little bit of trouble to get back to our hotel room.
It hardly took us around 15 minutes of time to get to the Buddha Nath Stupa which was another very famous attraction of Kathmandu. Whenever someone thinks about Kathmandu, this is the landmark that everyone uses as it’s the most prominent structure in the landscape of Kathmandu that can be seen from everywhere even from the flights and even from the neighbouring villages that are on top of the hills.
As we were moving towards it, I realised how big it was. I didn’t imagine this to be this huge. I thought it would be just like a normal stupa, but in fact, this was the biggest I’ve ever seen in my life. I was quite amazed by the share amount of size it had in itself.
There were a lot of people here also, but because as this path was quite wide and there were no restriction for anyone on the basis of any religion to visit this place. So considering the huge area it covered the crowd was quite scattered, so it wouldn’t took a long time to visit inside of it.
We could see people of all religions, all ethnicity and many countries at the single time present there. It was such an internationally acclaimed tourist spot that everyone wanted to visit whenever they’re in Kathmandu.
The only requirement to visit inside of it for tourist was a ticket that costs just a little amount that is needed to get inside is in my hand as you can see in the photographs above. So our group guide bought all the tickets before hand so that it would save us a lot of time.
As soon as I entered inside of this amazing place, I was amazed, in fact, I was stunned to see such a big stupa. I know you won’t believe me, but it was huge. The photographs are not at all paying justice to the size it had.
It was so peaceful as I entered inside of the campus. This was one of the best days of my life as I was visiting one of the most prominent landmarks in Nepal in just a single day.
We were given a time of an hour to spend here, not more than that because we also had to cover another temple that was quite far away in the hills. There is very interesting story that is linked towards the creation of this stupa about which I will be telling you guys in part two of this series.
As there was a lot of distance that was to be covered just to roam around this huge landmark, so I insisted my grandparents to sit on a bench next to the Stupa, where other elderly people were sitting and enjoy their while, I took a walk around this huge landmark.
They were a little bit tired from the Pashupati Nath trip as they had to walk a lot during that time, so they also preferred sitting on a bench rather than walking there. Considering that I got some time for myself, and I didn’t have to worry about my grandparents for sometime as other people from our group were also sitting there, so I was quite sure that they all are safe.
I will be telling you guys about my exploration in detail in next blog and also about the story of this place. So stay tuned guys. This is it for today.
Thanks for passing by.
Peace ☮️
