Pashupatinath, Kathmandu, most important Hindu temple in Nepal


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Let's go to the temple!
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Monkeys are already there
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with strange look on their faces
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Bull is used to travel by Shiva
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Nandi bull waits in front of the sliver doors
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where only Hindu people may enter
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although some are too sleepy
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Great entrance decorations
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and many pigeons in front of the temple.
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Crowds of people come today
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sitting on the river bank
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to pay respect to a minister's wife
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Climbing above the crowds
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we have great view on the Pashupatinath temple
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and get away from self-invited guides
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Family and goverment people are near the funaral pyre
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facing common people
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while others are parting with their loved ones on the other side of the bridge
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with people wathcing across the river
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Caves in the river canion rocks
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and kids bathing downstream, closes to the burial site

More photos, W. Duch