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It's a short walk from the bus park along the highway to Mahendra Chowk , the main square at the new, east end of town - an unfortunately dismal introduction to Dhulikhel, but straightforward for orientation. Old Dhulikhel starts immediately to the west. A close, traditional Newar settlement of remarkable architectural consistency, it's comprised almost exclusively of four- and five-storey brick mansions, many with ornate wooden lattices in place of glass windows, affecting a stern, almost Victorian elegance. These huge houses are extended-family dwellings: some Dhulikhel clans number fifty or more members. The older buildings, which are held together only by mud mortar, show some fairly serious cracks from the infamous 1934 earthquake; Dhulikhel also experienced some damage during the 1988 quake centred near Dharan in the eastern Tarai. Wandering around Dhulikhel is basically a matter of following your nose (and occasionally holding your nose), but highlights include the central square of Narayanthan , containing a temple to Narayan and a smaller one to Harisiddhi (both emanations of Vishnu), and the Bhagwati Mandir , set at the high point of the village with partial mountain views. Members of the Bhagwati temple association often do bhajan in the next-door building.
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