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So this post is going to be a little more detailed one about the durbar square of Bhaktapur District of Kathmandu and my explanation of being there.
All the people from my group were now collected and were waiting for the guides to take them to the different parts of this place. I decided to go on my own and explore this beautiful place on my own.
So I got away from my group and decided to meet back everyone at the same place after 40 minutes. That was the time that guide told me to be back. Now I was on my own, and I decided to start from the very starting point of this place.
The very first place that I decided I would start from was this temple which was about 30 m high from the main level of the buildings. I decided to climb on top of that end. The view from that particular place was just mesmerising. As you can see in the photograph below. The view was incomparable to anything and it felt like I travelled back in time to the days when this Empire was alive, and the Kings were living inside of these buildings.
To my surprise, one of the guides who was the team leader of all the other guides was standing there, and they were some people who were playing guitar. I made friends with the guide and he asked that if I know how to play guitar.
I told him about my musical journey and musical background, so he borrowed the Guitar from the people who were playing it and handed over to me and I sang some songs there and we really had a good time. It was really fun, singing my own songs at Kathmandu, and he was also very happy that I was singing some songs, and everyone was gathered around me.
I was there for about 20 to 25 minutes and I didn’t knew how the time passed. It was now getting sunset and I knew that I had very less time left now to explore this place, so I started running towards the other people.
After seeing this, my guide told me that they will also take some more time of about 30 minutes as the people are moving, really slow, so he told me to explore this place with him. I was really happy to do that as I was now with the head guide, and he was only showing me around.
He told me about the history of this place. He told me that this place was constructed near about 500 years ago by The King of Malla Kingdom. The buildings here was really beautiful, and the sunset was making them look more dramatic as you can see in the photograph below.
He was really fond of photography and asked me to capture a lot of photographs of his and I asked him to do the same in return. So he captured many good photos of me as you can see in the photographs below. He was the first person whom I asked to capture some of my photos, apart from my grandparents and they really came out to be super beautiful.
Now we started moving towards the central portion of the campus. The buildings were vacant from inside as they were partially destroyed by the earthquake. That happened here in 2015.
After that huge earthquake, the buildings were shattered, and many of them were restored, but some of them were still under progress of restoration. This place has been given the protected site tagged by UNESCO. We can see why this has been given as this place was really very beautiful.
I will be continuing my journey part three of this blog tomorrow. I think that is it for today.
Thanks for passing by.
Peace ☮️
