Presentation of the Kathmandu Valley- 1981 

2:15 He is my great-grandfather Tulsi kumar shilakar🥺 And I am so glad to see him ❤️ He is no more with us he died 25years ago 😭 Rip great-grandfather may you live in heaven 😭 Thankyou This video really make my day 🥺❤️

Beautiful. The narrator, Peter Vere-Jones was a famous English born New Zealand actor who immigrated to New Zealand with his family in 1949 aged 9 years. He was well known on stage, on radio, TV and in movies, including Xena-Princess Warrior and Peter Jackson's Brain Dead, Meet The Feebles and The Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug. I first visited Nepal in 1982 a year after this video was made. I've visited many times since then and plan to return in a few months time. Jai Nepal.

I couldn't believe that this video was created about 41 years ago. Truly a masterpiece on Kingdom of Nepal ☺

Good to see old Kathmandu, Nepal!

Highly recommended show on mesmerising nostalgic Kathmandu valley, the show touches my soul, well the imaginations of our past is, ironically, also built upon foreign accounts that reduce Nepal to exoticism. Nepal was a place of "lost kingdoms", a “last Hindu kingdom,” a fascinating “hippies trail,” a Shangrila for those who sought it-a place where one could return to their "roots,” visual narratives emphasise a pastoral dream, with rice fields as far as the eye could stretch, or mountain-villages untouched by the corruption of modern industrial and consumer practices. With every passing year, one begins to rue what once was. There is wide consensus that Kathmandu Valley-and its cities-were in a better shape in the past. Pictures of a bucolic past, with green fields, temples, clean rivers and emptier roads flood social media on a daily basis. Such nostalgia extends to other places from "untouched" trekking trails and regions and ideas of governance and politics, it is no longer uncommon to hear a nostalgic ode to royal rule visa vis the current political state of the country. Thanks for this glorious Nepal.

So proud of my country great Nepal 🇳🇵🇳🇵❤️

Am i the only one..??..who want to go back on that era..❤i wish i could go back in those time😅

Tyo bela khicheko aile ko dherai dherau videos haru vanda ramro

thank you ian john. but i would like to say european materialism has affected nepal alot in last 41 years. but this piece helped reminisce about the time when nepal was so etheral untouched pure and beautiful

Thanks, Peter Sir for such a tranquil, clear rendition. KTM 🎉and Nepal look like Bhutan of 2023. SO, Magical and untouched with the faint touches of medieval history still remnant. In today' Nepal, people are smitten by western culture which is strange as the Nepali culture is very amazing ❤ in itself. The people were so simple, amazing and hardworking as evident😢 during this documentary. Listen, carefully, you can hear local dialects and sounds of Nature. 😊 Such a beautiful, enchanting memory of a proud Hindu rashtra well governed by King in those days. Sincerely, such a great documentary!!!!!!!

I once came to Kathmandu in 1980 at that time students movement was going there.

I wish i could go back in time and visit it exactly like it was in 80 and 90s. Raw and beautiful

only heard about kathmandu valley from grandparents; seeing those reality was nostalgic. beautifully narrated, felt those hammering, chiseling and those vibes. wow ❤❤

This is what Kathmandu should be about..

Awesome, thank you so much for the people who make this video. You awe we nepalese alot.

Thanks you “UNESCO “ for Beautiful video🙏🙏

मेरो नेपाल कस्तो थियो? मेरो नेपाल कस्तो भयो, त्यहि नेपाल त्यही जोश तेहि जागर नभेटिने भयो,कहाँ गयो? शोषणतन्त्र ,भ्रष्ट दिमागले लुटिएको,बिलाएको मेरो देश कहाँ गयो कहाँ गयो?

very lucky to see old nepal .# My Proud

My grandfather appears in 10:51.. in pashupatinath.. he went there each day for 60 years.. died in October 4 2010 aged 89.. Kathmandu.. such a pristine place as shown here.. sadly a lot is corrupted now.. mostly due to politics..

Wow feels so lucky 🍀 to watched this video 😍, old Kathmandu 😍😍thank you for beautiful video , we need more videos about Nepal 🇳🇵

Newa Civilization was great !😭. Such self sustained and happy place !

we all are just a visitors in this beautiful planet for a limited time.

In just 41 years what a mess we have created.

Thank you for updating Old fotos, Videos...keep updating more ❤️

Since long time i have been searching for the old videos or images of south lalitpur.especially the place called lele and surrounding.

Nepali art and architecture is simply sublime, we need to honor it and not let it die out. 🙏

Thanks so much for such beautiful video ❤️

The best Documentary ever . Great work @UNESCO

You are lucky at least your great grandfather got captured in this footage and you could see him whenever you want to see him . May god bless his soul.

beautiful my Nepal 🇳🇵❣️

Thankyou very much to show my lovely Nepal.

Great rare valuable video. Thanks lot

We all want to see Our Bagmati River as shown in this video. @Balen is our only hope

10:06 look at Bagmati in Pashupatinath aryaghat back then ❤

This is awesome..... pls upload more.

it's amazing thanks a lot for uploading this video pride of my Nepal

Thank you for this Amazing Vidio 🙏🙏

Beautiful my Nepal🙏🙏🙏🙏Thank you

Thank you for sharing..🙂🌹

Sad to learn that we have to listen to foreigners to learn about our own culture and heritage sites. Anyway, good to learn.

If only we could reverse time, go back there and live those moments again !

Kathmandu was really beautiful untill 1997-98 then mowest movement and insurgency led almost million people to migrate the from villages to suburban and cuties including kathmandu.

wish it was like before !! spiritual nepal no materilaistics things and beings !! our nepal was so pure.

Those days When Nepal was self sufficient in food .

lovely Nepal

My Country. My Nepal 🇳🇵❤

If it was from 1981 AD, then this video is not showing the city areas. I was not born that time but by 1995, I remember seeing lots of concrete buildings. But there were still open spaces and not such tall buildings around Durban squares or even around New road and not many private vehicles on the road. I noticed the river water slowly changing the colour into grey. Buildings spreading throughout the agricultural land without any urban planning in order. The government had chance to think of urban planning which they didn’t. Looks like political parties were fighting with kings for a rights to ruin the country. When they got it they ruin the country.

I am sure 80 to 90%of our these statue are no more which makes ne very sad watching them and thinking we're all these god hidden.

That place is just hustle and bustle now from what ive seen

just 1 word beautiful

WE SHOULD PROTECT OUR CULTURE AND HISTORY.

Good information for civilian

Buddha is our culture Asian light is Buddha

Thank u sharing old video of ktm...

Heaven on Earth Nepal ❤

Great documentary. Also made me realize that nepal really just transitioned to modern lifestyle

Truly mesmerizing 😮

Guys this is a footage from 1981. Europe and parts of the world were developed already even after WWII. Look how far behind we were and still are. Kahile bujchan yaar Nepali haru.

Nice... and great video!❤

Now i believe my parents they said temples were quite reasonable distance away from each other if u wanted to worship them u needed to walk a long distance and even after travelling u needed to wait inline to worship the gods and now everywhere u go there's atleast 2-4 pictures of atleast 1 god or a small temple like structure that u can pray to as a reminder, to ensure the safety of ur travel, to be blessed and worship them ....

Old is Gold 🇳🇵

1968 bhane paxi aaja bhanda 52 saal pahileko video rahexa.Tyes bela ma 13 years ko thiyexu.So now i am 52+13=65 Year.😲☹️😢

The voice is always epic

thanks....

N: NEVER E: ENDING P: PEACE A: AND L: LOVE

Did I just time traveled to my valley?

My country NEPAL 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵

Very beautiful❤❤❤❤❤

what a great show...

Awesome ❤❤

Today's youngs don't know how struggling our history grand father and grabd mothers ,❤️🇳🇵🙏

Ranas actually ruled for abou 104 years. It was not 200.

Wow..😍

We could neither appreciate our glorious past nor could adopt the useful western values. Testo ramro Kathmandu lai kurup banae.

Can't believe the footage is as old as my parents though my parents are 9 years ahead .....

Wonderful video of Nepal !

So nise old is gold eveary thing

i think we should try upscale this video quality with AI hard to find such footages

“The grass is greener where you water it.”

Awesome post thanks 😊 😀 🙏

Thank you, loved it

Thank you for this Beautiful Video.... Our Beautiful Old Nepal. But, Sadly! Nowdays Our Beautiful Country is named as most corrupted country.

I want to go back into that era 🙏

Hamro nepali purano flim pani eti clear hudaina ❤️

The documentary of dharmasthali and 2 pipal tree and middle Buddha temple is also there

Beautiful video 🥰🥰🙏🙏

How far we have come in just 40 years . We are accelerating in terms of development.

loved nepal

Wow old is gold🙏🙏🙏🙏

beauty nature life come see ALL

Our old dhamathu village also there

WoW 🙂🌍🌎

Jay Nepal

Gautam Buddha didn't cut the lake and became Kathmandu valley ... I think it's manjushree or someone did it

Great evidence of How human have destroyed beautiful settlement within 30-35 years.!!!

बि सं २०३८ साल तिर को भिडियो

Beautiful my nepal

Sir aru Pani purano yastai yastai video xa vane herauna la? Dhanyabad.

Likr to my nepal Bhaktapur 🎉🎉🎉

LONG LIVE OUR NEPAL