Monuments in Kathmandu

Monument in Kathmandu

I have commented on several occasions about the large number of temples in the streets of Kathmandu. There are also a large number of smaller monuments like this one, quite often not associated with any temple. I do not know of their significance and can find no reference to them in the guide books I had with me.

It is things like this that made me think that employing a local guide for a day would have been beneficial in understanding what I was seeing.