Refreshing Rara Lake

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Happy Birthday, Late King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah

Poush 14, today is the birthday of our beloved Late King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah ...
Lets remember him on his birthday and pray for the eternal peace of the great soul and thank him for his service to Nepal & Nepali people.

Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev was the 11th King of Nepal and a South Asian statesman. The son of King Mahendra, whom he succeeded in 1972, he reigned until his death in the 2001 Nepalese royal massacre.

Born: December 28, 1945, Kathmandu (14th Poush 2002)
Parents: Mahendra of Nepal
Spouse: Aishwarya of Nepal (m. 1970)
Assassinated: June 1, 2001, Kathmandu
Siblings: Gyanendra of Nepal, Dhirendra of Nepal
Children: Dipendra of Nepal, Princess Shruti of Nepal, Prince Nirajan of Nepal

The Dharahara in 1956

The Dharahara in 1956. The whitewashing work on it is in its final stages. The area around the tower is still uncluttered by later constructions. The few houses surrounding it are low and in the traditional style.

Nagarkot

Nagarkot
Village in Nepal

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Nagarkot is a village and Village Development Committee located 32 km east of Kathmandu, Nepal in Bhaktapur District in the Bagmati Zone. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,504 and had 655 houses in it.

The old Dharahara, the Ram Chandra temple and a wing of Bag Burbar

The old Dharahara, the Ram Chandra temple and a wing of Bag Burbar from the south-west, in the 1920s. Bag Durbar, the Garden Palace was constructed in 1805 for General Bhimsen Thapa, who kept a cage with living tigers at its entrance. Thus, the palace was a also called the Tiger Palace. It was extremely damaged by the earthquake, and in 1940 a new palace, Hari Bhawan was erected in its place.