Sightseeing in Kathmandu

After the morning session of language training our guide to us to a place called Pashmuti. This is a very holy place for Hindus, it is the main site for cremation. The following pictures depict cremations which Hindus believe to be a public affair, once the fire is finished the ashes are then brushed into the Bagmati River which will eventually end up in the sacred Ganges.

body being cremated for unknown reasons there is no foul smell, must be the wood or the way the body is prepared.

body prepared for cremation

body being prepared

The smoke is from a cremation the body must be cremated on the same day as the death.

monkeys live here also, our guide was very afraid of them for she had been attacked as a child

such cute little things but fierce