Two houses on the Tachupal Tole

Incidents of Travel > Kathmandu Valley >    Bakhtipur

The same man viewed from a further distance. His neighbor to the left clearly has more modern tastes.

When I first visited Nepal in 1985, a visit to Bhaktipur felt like traveling back in time to the Newari middle ages. Motor vehicles were prohibited in the city center, a welcome change from the constant beep-beep of horns in Kathmandu.

Sadly (at least from the tourist's point of view), those restrictions have been relaxed somewhat, and kids on speeding motorbikes delight in scattering market crowds.