About twenty kilometres south of the capital, Pharping looks out over the valley and the Himalaya. It is a traditional Newar village, an important place of Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage, and still surprisingly little visited.
The best way to see it is to follow the pilgrims clockwise from shrine to shrine: prayer wheels, the Vajrayogini temple, the sacred cave where Guru Rinpoche meditated, monasteries and a Buddhist school. It is one of the most authentic places in the valley.
