Charm semi-Asian – semi-European the megacity cannot be explained charm to the one whom it “does not take away” at once. As well as Istanbul, as well as Moscow, Katmandu amazes with mad mixture of styles and any unexpressed, but meant confidence that it, Katmandu, - most that on is the center of the world, a center of the universe. The top of mountain Sumeru on which it is possible to sit centuries, keeping originally Buddhist calmness and to spit, examining passing by caravans of wanderers. And caravans meanwhile everyone go and go.
WHEN AND HOW?
The Best time for visit - in the spring and in the autumn. In the summer continuous rains transform roadways of old city into dirty medley. There is a risk seriously in the winter to freeze - temperature at night falls up to zero, and the habitation is not heated, except for unless most dear hotels.
·      The Nepalese bi-monthly visa to you will issue for 30 dollars to directly airport.
CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD
During centuries of Katmandu was the important reloading point on a trading way from India to Tibet and China.
In 70th years of the last century of Katmandu “have anew opened” hippie, and the stream of travelers of the most different interests - from subjugators of the Himalayas coming to Katmandu to have a rest and to try viands  at the best restaurants of Asia, up to practicing in meditation and east struggle since then does not become scanty; from young fans of a trance, up to the old men remembering times when Katmandu was nice for the market of hashish largest in region, opium and other “herbs”.
If mentally to clean from streets Katmandu of its aboriginals and to leave only visitors most of all this colorful party will remind… Amsterdam crowd. Here it is impossible to look so original to surprise.
WHAT TO LOOK
Durbar-square. The central area of the Katmandu which have been built up by pagodas and mortars. The former palace of a royal dynasty There and then settles down.
SHivaist temple complex Pashupatinat. The sacred river Bagmati There proceeds, on ghats which cremate died. Inside of temples of foreigners do not start up, but park - a wonderful place for walks and reflections.
Patan. Was there is separate city, Patan for a long time has joined a megacity. The residence reminds of former greatness Patan the kings, not conceding Katmandu. In royal apartments the best is exposed in the country a collection of a nepalese bronze and stone sculpture. Patan - the purest and well-groomed part of Katmandu, an alive museum open-air.
The Garden of dreams. Park in the British style, recondite behind high walls in the heart of city where exotic flowers grow, on trees hang plates with Lao-Czy’s and Voliter’s sayings, beat fountains and there is a surprising statue of Indian goddess Lakshmi - in the form of Venus.
THE ANCIENT GODS, NEW PROSPECTUSES
After Delhi and other large cities of India Katmandu captivates the western lustre. Here is both wide prospectuses, and fashionable boutiques, and canteen where for «the Asian money» to you will submit the European lasagna. But in shocking affinity from these islet the West - close, as an ant hill, quarters of old city with infinite labyrinthes of double-exit courtyards.
Local residents are deprived a piety to an antiquity because it is too much it. “Exhibits” which the Europe in any country would be with honors forward in a museum, in Katmandu intered under a layer of essential affairs and cares. An eight-hundred-year-old statue of the Buddha, on a belt left in the ground, hardly distinguished among colourful disorders of the fruit market, and in of five hundred “historical” small houses with carved rafters indifferently live and simple Nepalese’s dry linen. In Katmandu do not know, that such « monuments of architecture », and with delightful naivete cover ancient temples communistic propaganda and advertising of football clubs. Similar, Inhabitants of Katmandu are too rich with the present to appreciate the past, and too honour the gods that them to protect.