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A Truly Honest Look at the 2025 Kathmandu Highlights Tour

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A Truly Honest Look at the 2025 Kathmandu Highlights Tour So, you are thinking about a trip to Kathmandu, which is, you know, a place that absolutely fills your senses from the moment you step out the door. It’s almost a city that feels like it exists on a completely different plane of reality, with ancient traditions sort of rubbing shoulders with modern life. As I was saying, one of the most popular ways to see the city’s main points of interest is through a guided day tour, so I went ahead and tried the 2025 ‘Kathmandu Highlights Tour’ to …

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Patan Half-Day Tour Review 2025: Kathmandu Sightseeing

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Patan Half-Day Tour Review 2025: Kathmandu Sightseeing So you’re thinking about a quick trip over to Patan, which they call Lalitpur, the City of Fine Arts. Honestly, it’s a pretty smart idea if you are in Kathmandu and only have a morning or afternoon to spare. This place is, in some respects, a completely different world from the main tourist hubs of Thamel. We just took one of these half-day trips, and to be honest, it was kind of a perfect way to soak in a lot of culture without feeling overwhelmed. Basically, the idea is that you get a …

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A Day in the City of Temples: My 2025 Kathmandu Valley Tour Review

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A Day in the City of Temples: My 2025 Kathmandu Valley Tour Review A Morning Pickup and a Promise of Adventure Okay, so the day pretty much started with our guide, a really friendly man named Sonam, picking us up from the hotel lobby. To be honest, it was a little earlier than I usually wake up, but the feeling of excitement, you know, kind of made up for it completely. The streets of Thamel were just starting to wake up, which, frankly, is a sight in itself. The air, you could say, had a little bit of a chill, …

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