Places to visit in Nepal
99 places to visit in Nepal, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Bhaktapur Durbar Square, Boudhanath Stupa, Changu Narayan Temple and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in a volume for its state or province, filed under Nepal on your shelf.
99 travel stamps in 7 states and provinces
The best known in Nepal
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Bhaktapur Durbar Square
The royal square of the kings of Bhaktapur, who ruled from here until the kingdom fell in 1769. Its palace of fifty-five windows and golden gate face rows of temples, and the whole square is part of the Kathmandu Valley World Heritage Site.
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Boudhanath Stupa
One of the largest spherical stupas in the world, a vast white dome laid out as a mandala in the northeast of Kathmandu. Prayer flags stream from its gilded tower, and pilgrims walk clockwise around it past a ring of monasteries and shops.
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Changu Narayan Temple
One of the oldest Hindu temples in Nepal, founded in the 4th century on a ridge above Bhaktapur and dedicated to Vishnu. Its courtyard is full of stone sculpture from the Licchavi period, and it has been on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1979.
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Chitwan National Park
Nepal's first national park, founded in 1973 in the jungle and grassland of the inner Terai and a World Heritage Site since 1984. Its 952 square kilometres are home to one-horned rhinoceros and Bengal tigers, watched from jeeps, canoes and on foot.
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Hanuman Dhoka Palace
The royal palace of the Malla kings and later the Shah dynasty, in the middle of Kathmandu Durbar Square. It takes its name from the stone Hanuman, draped in red cloth, that guards the main gate: dhoka means door in Nepali.
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Kathmandu Durbar Square
The old royal heart of Kathmandu, a crowd of pagoda temples, courtyards and palace wings in front of Hanuman Dhoka. It is one of the valley's three Durbar Squares on the UNESCO World Heritage list, and the house of the Kumari, the living goddess, stands at its edge.
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Lumbini
The birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, where Queen Maya is said to have given birth to him around 563 BCE. A sacred garden and pool surround the spot, and a long monastic zone holds temples built by Buddhist nations from around the world.
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Maya Devi Temple
The main temple at Lumbini, built over the spot traditionally held to be where the Buddha was born. It stands beside a sacred pool and garden, over brick remains from the time of Ashoka, and beneath them traces of a timber shrine found in 2013.
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Pashupatinath Temple
Nepal's holiest Hindu temple, dedicated to Shiva as Pashupati, lord of all creatures, on the banks of the Bagmati. Around the gilded pagoda spread hundreds of smaller shrines, ashrams and cremation ghats, a precinct on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1979.
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Patan Durbar Square
The centre of old Patan, a square of stone and brick temples facing the palace where the Malla kings of Lalitpur lived. It is one of the Kathmandu Valley's three Durbar Squares on the UNESCO list, and the richest in Newar woodcarving and metalwork.
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Sagarmatha National Park
The Khumbu's protected heartland, set up in 1976 and climbing from 2,845 metres to the 8,848 metre top of Everest itself. Sherpa villages, monasteries and glaciers fill its 1,148 square kilometres, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Swayambhunath
An ancient stupa on a wooded hill west of Kathmandu, its golden spire painted with the Buddha's watching eyes. The name means self-arisen, and the hill has long been honoured as the home of the primordial Buddha. Monkeys roam its steps, hence its other name, the Monkey Temple.
Nepal by state and province
- Bagmati39 stamps
- Gandaki24 stamps
- Koshi14 stamps
- Lumbini8 stamps
- Karnali6 stamps
- Sudurpashchim5 stamps
- Madhesh3 stamps
Collecting in Nepal
Does LOQAH have stamps in Nepal?
Yes. 99 places in Nepal have LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp, among them Bhaktapur Durbar Square, Boudhanath Stupa, Changu Narayan Temple. More are added over time.
How do I collect a stamp in Nepal?
The same way as anywhere: open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge and the date.
How are my Nepal stamps kept?
Each state or province you collect in gets a volume of its own, and the volumes sit together under Nepal on your shelf.
I have been to Nepal before. Can I add those trips?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Nepal and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline: it is read on your phone and only the places it matches are added.
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