Nightlife in Kathmandu

Nightlife in Kathmandu  
Nepal is an agricultural based country which means most of the locals go to bed early and get up with the rising sun but this does not mean that life goes to sleep too. The life is still wide awake and young to many who need to keep themselves fully entertained and you will find plenty of places to fulfill your desire. Most of the restaurants in the main tourist areas like Thamel close after 10 pm but a number of bars stay open until after midnight.

The most interesting after-dark activity is simply wandering the streets of old Kathmandu. As you wander the streets at night, listen for traditional Nepali music. In the evenings, impromptu bands often perform at small temples all over the city. This is also a good time to do your shopping since many shops catering to tourists stay open until 9pm. If you're dying to experience video night in Kathmandu, check the restaurants around Thamel. Many show videos of the latest Hollywood releases. There's also a video theater at the Kathmandu Guest House.

The nightclubs, discotheques and casinos in the city make Nightlife in Kathmandu vibrant, dynamic and happening. With dusk, the nightclubs and discotheques become full of young crowd, who visit the place to release stress and strains of mundane life. The capital city of Nepal, Kathmandu houses several clubs, bars and discotheques that come to life at night. Some of the lively nightclubs and bars of Kathmandu that send out energetic vibes to fill the ambiance with life included many more things.

Nightlife in Kathmandu is concentrated on Thamel, though many new bars are opening up around Pulchowk in Patan and also few in other places. There are hundreds of restaurants and pubs clustering in Thamel, By law, all music in public places has to be turned off by 22.00, And many bars in Thamel try to stay open until midnight and have some dancers. During the high season, bars usually keep serving until the late hours. The police is coming almost every night and check, and if they found girls to dance naked they take them out in the cold and punish.

Note that the city laws in Kathmandu means all music needs to be put off by 10 pm and people on the streets should be on their way home. In this magnitude too, you still can be merry in the fascinating action packed Casinos or shake a leg or two in some discotheques, which opens till late night.

Education System in Nepal

Education System in Nepal

Education in Nepal is structured as School education and higher education. School education includes primary level of grades 1-5, Lower secondary and secondary levels of grads 6-8 and 9-10 respectively; Pre-primary level of \education is also available in certain areas. A national level School Leaving Certificate (SLC) Examination is conducted at the end of grade ten. Grades 11 and 12 are considered as higher secondary level. Higher secondary education board (HSEB) supervises higher secondary schools, which are mostly under private management. Previously these grades were under the university system and were run as proficiency certificate level. Though some universities still offer these programs, the policy now is integrate these grades into the school system.

Higher education consists of bachelor's, master's and PhD levels. Depending upon the stream and subject, bachelor's level may be of three to five years' duration. The duration of master's level is generally of two years. Some universities also offer programs like M Phil and post-graduate diploma.

            Legally, there are two types of school in the country; community and institutional. Community schools receive regular government grant whereas institutional schools are funded by school's own or other non-governmental sources. Institutional schools are organized either as a non-profit trust or as company. However, in practical terms, schools are mainly of two types: public (community) and private (Institutional). A third type of school is the schools run bye the local people enthusiastic towards having a school in their localities. They do not receive regular government grants and most of them do not have any other sustainable financial source. Supported and managed bye the local people, they can be thus identified as the real community school.

            Except one, all universities/academies are publicly managed and are supported public source fund. However, public universities also provide affiliation to private colleges. Two academies of higher education are single college institutes whereas other universities have constituent and affiliated colleges across the country.

Cremation system in Nepal

Cremation System in Nepal

Today’s civilized human society is well aware of the word ‘funeral’ which literally means- ‘a ceremony, usually a religious one, for burying or cremating (= burning) a dead person’.

When the ancient people started to lead a social life, the necessity of proper disposal of the corpse considered and various customs of funerals developed. It may be due to respects for the beloved departed ones or the other reason must have been the intolerable odour and havocking sight of the decomposing dead body which could have left the remaining family members disgusting. The pattern of practices may differ due to the variation in the society in terms of ecological, economical, religious, political, cultural aspects.

Cremation was already known to the Europeans in the year 1000 BC and was believed to have been introduced to them by the Greeks. With the rise of Christianity, they found again the sentiments of their religion. A revival of interest in cremation in Europe, USA again took place in 1874, when the surgeon of Queen Victoria Sir Henry Thompson published his influential book” Cremation”: The treatment of the body after death.”

Kinds of Funeral:

1.                      Immersion in running water (water burial).

2.                      Exposing in open Place.

3.                      Burial

4.                 Cremation

KATHMADU VALLEY

Kathmandu Valley

The Kathmandu Valley, the capital, is the political, commercial and cultural hub of Nepal. Spread across an area of 360 square kilometers and at an altitude of 1336 masl, Kathmandu is an exotic and fascinating showcase of a very rich culture, art and tradition. The valley, roughly oval bowl measuring 24 km east-west and 19 km north-south, is encircled by a range of green terraced hills and dotted by compact clusters of red tiled-roofed houses.

A remarkable legend speaks that the valley was once covered by a lake until the Bodhisattva Manjushri raised his sword of wisdom and sliced a passage through the mountain walls in Chowar, draining the water and creating the first settlements.

The valley embraces most of Nepal's ethnic groups, but Newars are the indigenous inhabitants and the creators of the valley's splendid civilization.

last three decades. Nevertheless, the valley still exhibits a living, breathing entity, a vital culture that has miraculously survived till now.
The valley consists of three fabulous cities of great historic and cultural interest. These legendry cities go by the names of:

• Kathmandu (Kantipur)
• Lalitpur or Patan (Yala)
• Bhaktapur (Bhad Gaon or Khopa)

Beyond the urban milieu of these three ancient cities of the Kathmandu Valley, there are also villages and small towns that provide charming glimpses of rural life.

• Bandipur (in the Kathmandu-Pokhara Prithivi Highway)
• Banepa
• Daman
• Dhulikhel
• Nala
• Nagarkot
• Phulchowki
• Shivapuri
• Tika Bhairav 
• Timal Narayan

Katmandu Valley

Kathmandu Valley is a historical valley. Today around 4 million people live in Kathmandu valley. It has 3 different small county before unification of Nepal they were Kathmandu (Kantipur), Bhaktapur (Bhad gaon, Khopa), Lalitpur (Yala, Patan).
      At that time Bhaktapur was capital of Kathmandu valley and all valley use to be ruled by Bhaktapur. When it separated in 3 different country then that small country was ruled by 3 different king. There were an another small country Kritipur (Kepu) which was ruled by Kathmandu and some time also by Bhaktapur. Today it's in Kathmandu region. Before Unification by Shah Dynasty the last Dynasty is was Malla Dynasty