Bouddhanath Stupa

The next stop was this stupa which is the largest in Nepal. It enshrines the remains of one of the Buddhas. It is a huge round structure of many levels. On the street level their are prayer wheels around the whole thing and their is a constant stream of people walking in a clockwise direction, praying and spinning the wheels. Its quite something to see.

The stupa is surrounded by buildings which are about 4 or 5 stories tall. Our group made it's way up to a roof top restaurant in one of these buildings for our lunch. We spent the lunch hour visiting with some young Spanish people who had moved to Ireland for work.

After lunch we walked around the stupa to some stairs which took us up a level and we did a full circle on this level.

We walked back to our bus and made our way back to the Trekking company office.Read more