Overview

DAY TOUR TO BHAKTAPUR AND PATAN FROM KATHMANDU: A MAJESTIC ONE DAY EXPERIENCE TO UNLOCK CALMNESS AND KNOWLEDGE AT SAME TIME.

The UNESCO-protected Bhaktapur city is a magnificent example of arts and crafts dating back to the medieval age. On the other hand, Patan will allow you a great chance to cherish not only the architecture but also the arts and beautiful metal wares. Bhaktapur Durbar Square is a gallery of ancient art and building with many examples of models, woodcarvings, and colossal pagoda temples dedicated to different gods and goddesses. Bhaktapur, where you will observe a unique experience and the finest example of craftsmanship. You will observe Bhaktapur’s well-known displays such as the Lion Gate, Golden Gate, Art Gallery, Statue of King Bhupatindra, Nyatapola Temple, and fifty-five windows Malla Palace.

Bhaktapur truly translates to ‘City of Devotees’ and lives up to this title as it has more temples than either Kathmandu or Patan. It is a charming place to wander as the cobbled lanes are free of traffic and full of temples, lawns, squares, walls, Ponds, and courtyards. Culture and antique traditions are swarming in Bhaktapur; you can observe artists producing their century-old arts of pottery and wood carving. It’s a magnificent place to buy souvenirs to take home. 

The five-story Nyatapola Temple is the most towering pagoda temple in Nepal. Devoted to the Goddess Lakshmi in 1702, its struts, entrances, windows, and tympanums are adorned with carvings of sacred characters, including a couple of two-meter giant stone statues of elephants, lions, griffons and a pair of tantric goddesses. It is said that the foundation of the Nyatapola Temple is deeper than the height of the temple itself.

Patan is dwelled 5 km distant from the center city, Kathmandu, and is entered by traversing the Bagmati River. It still preserves its old-world enchantment and ancestral professions such as woodcarving and particularly metal crafts though it’s near Kathmandu which is fully modern. As you stroll through the city you still listen to the tapping of tiny hammers as an artist works on a statuette or embroidery. Patan has enough temples and monasteries which look alike in their pagoda-style design and wood-carved windows. 

The city glorifies countless festivals both Hindu and Buddhist, many of them are the Rato Machhendranath Jatra and the display of Dipanker Buddhas which is thrilling. Patan takes pride in producing great Thangka and Pauwa painters whose works are shipped to many countries. Such paintings can be witnessed in the tiny lanes of the city. Art still thrives in this city of Newar artisans who have traditionally been fulfilling metal crafts to Buddhist monasteries throughout the country. The population is predominantly Newar whose castes usually conclude whether they denote Hindu or Buddhist.

Patan Durbar Square (Durbar indicates palace), a UNESCO World Heritage Site is the chief fascination with the old imperial palace and a proprietor of artistically architecture temples all within the square. The Patan Museum inside the palace has a subtle collection of metal craft, wood carvings, and a beloved fragile Malla era throne. In the Durbar Square is the divine Krishna temple built solely of stone which is the most significant Krishna shrine of the whole valley.