Bagmati Chovar Canyon#
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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.