Basantapur Square is a large open plaza at the south-eastern entrance to Kathmandu Durbar Square, where souvenir sellers set up their stalls in long lines to await the tourists. The white columned building on the right is the Gaddi Baithak, part of the Royal Palace complex built in the 1908 after King Jung Bahadur Rana returned from a trip to England, where he developed a taste for western neo-classical architecture. The main part of Durbar Square is straight ahead.