KIRTIPUR

Situated on the top of a plateau-shaped ridge, now a part of Kathmandu district, Kiripur is a typical old township of Nepal with its own history, a separate city-state till little more than two hundred years before when Prithibi Narayan Shah conquered Kathmandu valley states and unified the present state of Nepal. History says that it was a hard time for Prithibi Narayan Shah to conquer that small place and had to attack seven times after he had taken all three important city-states of Kathmandu valley. Inhabited by Newars, that region is still a specimen of traditional cultivation, other farming, and indigenous industries like weaving, wood carving, making goods out of straw, etc. Several temples and religious shrines are often visited by devotees from far and wide.