Patan (or Lalitpur) is on the south side of the Bagmati River, almost merging with the capital. It is one of the most beautiful cities in the world with a huge number of attractions. Therefore, the name of the city of Lalitpur, officially accepted today, means "a city of beauty."
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How to get
It's very easy to get to Patan, as the distance from the Thamel area to Kathmandu to the city is only 5 km, you can get there by bus, which, however, does not come because of too narrow streets into the city. And you can walk on foot.
The climate of Patan is
| Average monthly temperature, ° C | ||||||||||||
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| in the daytime | + 18 | + 20 | + 24 | + 27 | + 28 | + 28 | + 27 | + 28 | + 27 | + 25 | + 23 | + 19 |
| night | + 2 | + 4 | + 7 | + 11 | + 16 | + 19 | + 20 | + 20 | + 19 | + 13 | + 7 | + 3 |
Entertainment, sightseeing and sightseeing
The peculiarity of Patan architecture is a system of squares, hiding from prying eyes behind the facades of houses, guarding their peace and seclusion. The patios are a song: you can tear juicy strange fruits from fruit trees, drink with cool water from the well, which immediately winks with a gleaming eye, but the main shrine of the courtyard is a small temple, the so-called family "penates."
Durbar Square
Center of the city - the temple square is framed by trays with flowers and fruits. These are ritual sacrifices, with which one should enter the temples. Durbar Square is lively from morning till night, the reason is the unique former royal palace and about ten temples dedicated to various deities. On the perimeter of the roofs of the royal palace are dozens of wooden deities and Indian heroes, many-armed and many-headed, painted with white, red, green and blue paint, bright and colorful.
The palace's neighbor is the tower-shaped temple of Krishna Mandir, attractive with relief carvings depicting scenes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Among the narrow alleyways stupa rises - the main reason for enthusiastic tourist comments.
Temples of Patan
As for the holy places, covered with the unspoken presence of the Buddha, Patan is buried in temples: for example, the Golden Temple, it is not so easy to find among the densely built houses. And to find is: decorated with gilded bronze walls, the oldest statues of deities, inlaid with precious stones, the temple has its own tower.
Another temple of Hiranya Varna Machavichar is a Buddhist sanctuary framed by prayer wheels, illuminated by numerous lamp-pans, in which the guards support the fire. If you leave the "Golden Temple" and turn left, then in 3 minutes you will find yourself facing the majestic 5-tiered shikkhara Kumbheshwar ("Shikkhara" means "top") - a temple of Indian origin, built in the form of a steeply uplifting tower-shikhara. There is always pandemonium here.
The Ratnahar Hindu temple hides a statue of four royal cobras. The veneration of the naga (serpent) is an ancient cult of both Nepalese and Indians. The Buddhist monastery of Aksheswor Mahabihar attracts the eye with the most luxurious stupa that forms a triangle with two other famous "big-eyed" stupas of Kathmandu: the Swayambhunath and Bodnath stupas.
- To get to the special festivities that take place in Hiranya Varna Machavichar during the festival in honor of Mahendranath (god of abundance and fertility).
- In numerous "benches of antiquities" to buy copies of engravings of the 19th century. with the image of the Palace Square.
- To see the four stupas of King Ashoka, set on the borders of the future Patan in the 3rd century. BC. e. Stupas are oriented to the sides of the world, while the fifth stupa once stood in the center of the city, but now it no longer exists.
- Purchase a glorious Tibetan carpet in Javlakhel, in the eastern part of the capital.