Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Phulchoki hill Hiking in Kathmandu


Phulchoki hill is the highest forest hill located on the south- east of  Lalitpur district.  The road touch from Godavari to Phulchoki hill. Phulchoki Mai is on top of the hill. It is visited by devotees who pray for wealth. It is especially frequented during falgun-purnima mela. This hill become the main destination of snow lovers.
There is a small temple single-storey Bhairab with a typanum depicting Tara on her vehicle, the Vrish-Hansha and Garuda. The remains of a Sitala image and stone images of Vishnu and Bhimsen are inside this temple.
There are two water-tanks, one tank with nine dharas which date from the seventeenth century. Above of water tank, there is a stone Buddhist chaitya containing the images of Ratna Sambhava Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, Amoghsiddhi Buddha and Akshobhya Buddha.
At the entrance of the temple compound, there are ceramic image of Yamadut and a lion. Inside the compound, there is the three-storey Phulchoki shrine. The tympanum portrays Basundhara Devi; the struts which support the brass roofs are carved with the Ashtamatrikas. 

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