Essay (2) Nepal: Kathmandu du bus Plaza

The Nepal essays II:

Kathmandu du bus Plaza (Kathmandu's Durbar Square)

Author: Maple Ridge http://blog.sina.com.cn/wildmapleridge of

Kathmandu Valley (Kathmandu Valley) is located in Central Nepal, Himalaya mountain of a plateau basin, 1400 m above sea level, surrounded by high mountains surround, mild climate, warm in winter and cool in summer, and Yunnan Kunming.

Big Kathmandu area by three adjacent city: Kathmandu (Kathmandu), Tan (Patan) and Bhaktapur (Bhaktapur).

(Jiademandudubaguangchang)

In the morning, yellow Pavilion hotel (Yellow Pagoda Hotel) lobby has gathered full of people, European travelers have to get up, eaten after breakfast sat in the lobby groups on the sofa, talked about the newspaper's news, a few days before we arrived, Nepal limited to turmoil, CPN launched several times after massive protests, Koirala's Government promulgated martial law, prohibited procession around the Palace.

Not long ago, the Royal Palace in front of the bustling and emotionally intense en, crowds gathered at the Royal Palace, the King the appointment request dismissal of Koirala's Government, elected directly by the people, and finally the Cabinet provoked serious bloodshed.

(Kathmandu, new Palace)

Huang Ting hotel while the rooms conditions primitive, but the breakfast was very good, restaurant table covered with traditional checkered tablecloth, looks clean and tidy.

Western-style breakfast except for milk, bread, jam and butter, fried eggs, boiled eggs, cereal, fruit, and so on, type a pancake breakfast is very delicious, far better than cheap hotels breakfast in Europe and America.

(Jiademandudubaguangchang bird's eye)

Kathmandu du bus Plaza (Durbar Square) is situated in the Centre of the South, is the horse King era (Malla Kings) and subsequent Shah dynasty (Shah Dynasty) era of the old Royal Palace, the oldest Palace East Wing was built in the XVI century, after several generations of Mara continued expansion of the Kings, the size of the form now.

1768, Narayan-Shah King won the Kathmandu Valley, the square has four southeastern additions, Lookout, Shah dynasty of ancient kings were living here, until 1886 moved to a new Royal Palace only, however, was crowned King, and other important ceremony still held in this.

This old palace square is not only a Department places of interest, but also the important place of public gathering, Kathmandu city is built around the Palace square is the centre built, after leaf until the nineteenth century, Shah dynasty in Kathmandu is discussed in the northern part of the construction of a new Royal Palace, the city gradually North extension.

Today, the old Royal Palace square is surrounded by residential and residential area, has become a genuine civic square, whenever people get married in Kathmandu, crowds across the square. The Palace Red Wall, often sitting some idle man.

(Plaza on idle man)

Of course, also the square can be found on the stall selling to tourists, Dongsi little hawker.

Nepal's favorite color is gorgeous fresh flowers, they often turn red, yellow, purple garlands of flowers bunch into, gave honorable guest.

Along the square du bus (Durbar Square) on the West side of the street to the North, into Kathmandu central business district, in the composition by housing, shops, street area, the narrow bending, dilapidated housing on both sides of many vendors, at best is China's Western region of county fair.

The majority of Kathmandu residents who are living in Palestine Square (old palace square) and the area between the new Royal Palace, the densely populated, public facilities are very primitive, streets, dirty, lack of housing construction, the use of unified planning chaos built most of the buildings without serious water supply facilities, even the basic internal and external wall decoration.

Walking in the streets of Kathmandu, was in the air thick cheese taste, as well as some of the ozonolysis inexplicable perfume smell, in Nepal's half months, I still can't get used to the taste of these weird, we end the investigation in Nepal, after reaching Thailand Bangkok finally shaken off the taste.

We sit in Bangkok, a seafood restaurant, dinner, I asked everyone remember the taste of Kathmandu, the members unanimously to block I go on, they said would destroy everyone's appetite, I realized that not only is my own, they also don't like that kind of taste.

(Kathmandu markets)

Nepal as the world's poorest countries, always dependent on foreign aid to improve their lives, but because of the backward traditional concept bound to change society is not an easy task, it is said that the 1980s United States were intended to aid the Kathmandu city water supply facilities, local people worry about tap water will damage the Feng Shui home, always resist such Western advanced things, would rather use this ancient public pool.

It seems that for a backward countries, to promote the concept of any modernization will be easy.

(More photos of the scene in my blog)