Kopan Monastery
Kapan is a village located on a hill surrounding Kathmandu and there is a big Buddhist monatsery there. The monastery is a very nice and quiet place, out of Ktm pollution. They also have seminaries and accomodate lodging for guests.
We went there for a day, we had a course about the history of Buddha which was very interesting. The nunn who taught us was an English woman who converted to buddhism 30 years ago. We also "attented" a course given by the spiritual chief of the monatsery,called "lama" to all the monks and nunns. It was quite impressing to see all these students, all dressed the same way, bold, waiting for the Lama. When he came in, some "trumpetits" were anuncing his arrival, (like when the guards were anuncing the arrival of the king in the middle age) and people were bowing down in front of him.