Image number: 07NEP-5332

Handicrafts for sale (necklaces, prayer wheels, carved objects, metal casts) cover the walkways to Swayambhunath, the Buddhist "Monkey Temple", a religious site founded about 500 AD, one of the oldest and holiest Buddhist sites in the Kathmandu Valley. Swayambhunath sits on a hill in western Kathmandu overlooking the city.