{"id":8782,"date":"2022-10-11T17:46:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/exploring-swayambhunath-stupa-monkey-temple-kathmandu-nepal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:57:03","slug":"exploring-swayambhunath-stupa-monkey-temple-kathmandu-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/exploring-swayambhunath-stupa-monkey-temple-kathmandu-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Swayambhunath Monkey Temple In Kathmandu In Nepal: A Complete Travel Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our final day in Nepal, we were kind of operating in panic mode.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d spent so much time seeing so many different parts of Nepal that we\u2019d left almost no time whatsoever to explore the capital city of Kathmandu. We had planned to do so the day before but were distracted by the historic town of Panuati<\/a> and the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Bhaktapur<\/a> and so had no time to see the sights of Nepal.<\/p>\n

To remedy that, we booked a driver for the day and set out to see as much of the sights as possible. Due to traffic, we decided to prioritise the main sights and start off with Swayambhunath \u2013 Kathmandu\u2019s famous monkey temple.<\/p>\n

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The reason why the temple is known as the monkey temple is pretty obvious as soon as you arrive \u2013 the monkeys are everywhere.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re surprisingly well behaved though after getting chased by a monkey in Singapore<\/a> (and being told on a different occasion in Singapore not to look at a monkey in the eye<\/a>), I maintained a very healthy distance from whichever monkeys we saw.<\/p>\n

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We headed up to the stairs in search of the stupa and before long, you arrive at a square where you can see the stupa in the distance.<\/p>\n

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The stupa is impressive to see and is a really important sight here. The locals all come here and although our driver is parked in the car park up on the hill, you can walk up a flight of stairs to get here.<\/p>\n

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We walked around the area, stopping every so often to roll a prayer wheel before carrying on.<\/p>\n

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The view over Kathmandu is incredible too and definitely worth heading up here for.<\/p>\n

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We wandered around for a bit before, after looking at the time, rushing back down to our car in search of the next sight in Kathmandu!<\/p>\n

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We were distracted when we got back down to the entrance by the monkeys here though.<\/p>\n

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After seeing that the monkeys seemed to have very little interest in running after people, we went to check them out \u2013 only to be delighted by how the monkeys were pretty much turning the pool at the entrance into something of a diving session.<\/p>\n

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Every so often you\u2019d see one monkey or a couple of them actually, leap really high and land into the water with a splash. It was just so bizarre watching them enjoy their diving and subsequent swimming through the pool \u2013 very unlike any other monkey behaviour I\u2019ve observed anywhere else.<\/p>\n

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The monkeys here are considered as holy too and people do actually stop to feed them!<\/p>\n

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But enough about monkey\u2019s we had to hurry off to our next sight in Kathmandu \u2013 Boudhanath stupa.<\/p>\n

More on that in the next post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our final day in Nepal, we were kind of operating in panic mode. We\u2019d spent so much time seeing so many different parts of Nepal that we\u2019d left almost no time whatsoever to explore the capital city of Kathmandu. We had planned to do so the day before but were distracted by the historic … Continue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,396],"tags":[362,969,753],"class_list":["post-8782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","category-travel-journal","tag-asia","tag-kathmandu","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}