Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Over the centuries, successive earthquakes have battered Nepal’s Unesco-listed medieval heart – but the capital always finds a way to rebound, writes Paul Bloomfield

“The 2015 quake damaged more than 440 monuments in the Kathmandu Valley, levelling 83”

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Legend has it that the bowl-shaped Kathmandu Valley once cradled a lake festooned with lotus flowers. Then bodhisattva (Buddhist saint) Manjushri cleaved the rock walls with his flaming sword to drain the waters – or perhaps it was Lord Krishna who...

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