Bagmati Chovar Canyon#

Bagmati Chovar Canyon, March 2015, © Bernd Mader

Legends say, that when Manju Shree (also Manjushri, some kind of manifestation of Buddha or an enlightend mind) first came here, he saw a valley filled with water so he cut the mountain of Chovar. Chovar, Nepal

The cut is the so called Bagmati river today and the valley is the Kathmandu valley.