Boudha Stupa

The Boudha Stupa is just outside KTM and was originally constructed in the 5th century. Historically the stupa was an important staging post on the trade route between Tibet and Kathmandu and traders would pray here before beginning driving their yaks into the high passes of the Himalaya.  Most of the Tibetans living in Boudha are refugees who left Tibet after 1959, but there are also many Sherpas, an ethnic group that migrated into Nepal from Tibet in the 16th century.