Basantapur Durbar Square Zone
View from the roof of Hotel Sugat (an excellent and cheap hotel situated right in 
the heart of the old town and well away from the ghastly back-packer ghetto of Thamel). Basantapur Square is the south-eastern extension of Durbar Sq and is where the souvenir sellers set up their stalls of junk in long lines to await the more gullible tourists. The wonderfully out of place white columned building is the Gaddi Baithak - part of the palace complex built in the 1850's after King Jung Bahadur Rana returned from a trip to Europe - during which he developed a taste for western neo-classical architecture. The main part of Durbar Sq is just off to the left of this picture.
the heart of the old town and well away from the ghastly back-packer ghetto of Thamel). Basantapur Square is the south-eastern extension of Durbar Sq and is where the souvenir sellers set up their stalls of junk in long lines to await the more gullible tourists. The wonderfully out of place white columned building is the Gaddi Baithak - part of the palace complex built in the 1850's after King Jung Bahadur Rana returned from a trip to Europe - during which he developed a taste for western neo-classical architecture. The main part of Durbar Sq is just off to the left of this picture. 
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