Beauty Shots of Kathmandu

By Crivenica

My sister’s last post on her photographer friends was an inspiration. These ladies are so talented and I’m sure most of us who looked at their pictures wished that we had their eyes for seeing beautiful things in our sometimes chaotic world and possessed a tad of their talent in capturing that beauty in photographs.

I love photographs. I love looking at them. I love taking them and I love uploading them onto Facebook. However, I do not have the talent of making them look beautiful. Even so, Audrey, Daniella and Peggy made me want to take beautiful pictures. So, as David and I took our friend, Marcy, who is visiting from Boston, sightseeing around Kathmandu, I tried capturing parts of the city that I think are beautiful.

Early Saturday morning, David, Marcy and I walked through the old Patan city toward the Patan Durbar Square that I've written about in an earlier post. This is one of my favorite sightseeing routes in town because in this part of town is where you see how people live their daily lives. There are women lining up for water at their courtyard waterhole, kids playing, or old men drinking tea. This area is also rich with old architecture and little temples that are just begging to be captured in pictures.

Here are some pictures from that day, but please don’t compare them to Audrey’s, Daniella’s or Peggy’s! These pictures are just to show that these gals can inspire others who don’t even know them.

Women waiting for water at their community watering hole

A community Buddhist shrine

An alley under brick houses leading to the next courtyard.

The beautifully carved windows of Newari traditional house.

A random painting on a wall that I thought was so out of place, it was cute.

A tiger & a tigress guarding the entrance of the Golden Temple

A little flower girl selling offerings for the Gods

Patan Durbar Square getting ready for the tourists to come

Two ladies preparing to give Pooja (offerings)

Our friend, Marcy

The temples of Patan Durbar Square

We stopped at Garden of Dreams to enjoy some peace & quiet.

This arch always makes me think of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Shire.