10th May 2015
The second day in Nepal had already started. At 9am we went downstairs to have breakfast. Laer, we left the hotel and we decided to visit de Batsala Temple. But first, let me introduce it:
The stone temple of Batsala Devi depicts many intricate carvings; however, it is most famous for its bronze bell, known to local residents as 'the bell-of barking dogs', as when it is rung, all dogs in the vicinity begin barking and howling! The colossal bell was hung by King Ranjit Malla in 1737 A.D. and was used to sound the daily curfew. It is nowadays rung every morning when goddess Taleju is worshipped.
After seeing this, we wanted to explore a bit more the city, so we went walking to Swayambhunath. This is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. It is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in the north-west parts of the temple.
While we were taking some photos of that building, it started to rain, (you can see it because of the grey clouds) and as we didn´t carry our umbrellas with us at that moment, we had to go to the nearest bar to cover ourselves. It was 13.20h then, so we decided to have lunch there. It was called TAVERN PUB & GRILL.
The food was really nice and also the ambiance!! It all costed 1588,02 NPR (15€).
When the sky was clear enough, we went to the buddhist area of Boudhanath. It was kinda nice!
It was 7pm when we finished our tour and we were really tired of walking, so we walk for the last time back to the hotel.
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