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Abstract
In this ethnographic study, I have explored the reason for youth roaming around
Patan Durbar Square, one of the cultural heritages of Nepal listed under the UNESCO.
The paper aims to show that youth roam around the cultural heritages like Patan Durban
Square in Nepal to escape their boredom in their everyday life. Roaming around
usually is connoted with the purposeless wandering. However, in this paper I have used
the term ‘roaming around’ to mean ‘to wander around’ because of some reason, if not
with any purpose. I have established my argument to show that in a place like Patan
Durbar Square youth roam around not always for fun or pleasure but to escape
boredom, isolation and loneliness which are created by the hustle and bustle life of
urban centers. Employing the everyday life theories, I explore the ways of living of
youth especially observing their activities around the cultural heritages.