Siddha Pokhari

This pond is located at Dudhpati, Bhaktpur. Situated near the Bhaktapur Hospital, this is the most visited pond in Bhaktapur. Is believe that this pond is built by a holy person so its named as Siddha (salvation in nepali). The beauty of this pond is its rectangular shape with surrounding walls with four gates at each side. Once a year during Dashain and during Indra Jatra, festivals of lights are celebrated here.

The pond has lots of fishes rared. Huge fishes of different colors like orange, white, yellow, grey are rared here.

Kamal pokhari

Kamal pokhari is located at kamalvinayak, north-east of Bhaktapur. This pond is named after its character of bearing the flowers lotus (kamal in nepali). These flowers are not available today due to the cleanliness purpose. 20 years back there used to be huge leaves of lotus covering the pond. During the lotus blossoming seasons the pond used to look very beautiful. Though without these flowers, the pond look beautiful even today.

The pond is near to the kamalvinayak buspark and Nagarkot buspark. So any traveler can easily visit here.

A. Drops Gallery

The Gallery is located at the North of Nyatapola Temple ( The Five-stored Temple), on the small pathway in Bhaktapur. A group of diligent Artists are engaged in this gallery. The arts there are fine and awesome. These artists are involved in charity as well. They donate their paintings for charity. Also they donate certain share of their income from the paintings they sold for the welfare of deprived children from villages in Nepal. Do visit this gallery when you visit Bhaktapur, Nepal.

Bhaktapur Street Festival 2069

On 22nd September, Bhaktapur observed Bhaktapur Street Festival '069. This event is held first time ever in the history of Bhaktapur. Cultural events takes place more often and with Street Festival. people got to enjoy the culture, traditional lifestyle, handicrafts, arts, traditional music, dances, cultural exhibition and most preferably the classical newari food items. Many visitors enjoyed the event. About 3 crores of business transaction took place on this one-day event.

New Year 2069 BS

Nepalese calender is based on the Bikram Sambat. According to this, the new year 2069 begins from today. With the new year begins new hope for the peace and prosperity in the nation.
Nepalese celebrates this day by several means like worshiping god and godesses, organizing family trips, camping, hanging out with friends and relatives. This depends on the taste, culture, age-groups and so on. Usually people celebrate being with their loved ones.
In Bhaktapur, an ancient historic city near kathmandu, new year is celebrated with a great festival called Bisket Jatra. This festival is observed for eight days.