. >> al jazeera's sabine shrestha lives in nepal. she takes us around her home town and shows us how it devastated her neighbourhood. >> reporter: this is a square one of the most beautiful places in kathmandu. generations of my family have grown up in this neighbourhood. this is where my children come to feed the pigeons, and run around the square, just as i did when i was a child. nobody is here to feed the pigeons now. a few hours before the earthquake struck i was here talking about the importance of preserving our heritage and now, as you can see, there's not much left. there has been major temples that have just gone down. up north, the ruins of temples are being cleared. >> up there is a very good friend responsible for saving many of the architectural sites over here. >> translation: we thought there was nobody buried so we just cleaned the roads. there may be some underneath here. >> reporter: my home town is a maze of narrow alies. on the day of the earthquake our team went out to shoot in the neighbourhood. these are some

. >> al jazeera's sabine shrestha lives in nepal. she takes us around her home town and shows us how it devastated her neighbourhood. >> reporter: this is a square, one of the most beautiful places in kathmandu. generations of my family have grown up in this neighbourhood. this is where my children come to feed the pigeons, and run around the square, just as i did when i was a child. nobody is here to feed the pigeons now. a few hours before the earthquake struck, i was here talking about the importance of preserving our heritage, and now, as you can see, there's not much left. there has been major temples that have just gone down. up north, the ruins of temples are being cleared. >> up there is a very good friend responsible for saving many of the architectural sites over here. >> translation: we thought there was nobody buried, so we just cleaned the roads. there may be some underneath here.>eporter: my ho tn a tsereomofheces. anotr'old neborhod vel op buedn e bl. llsebudi, ocng >> reporter: this 8-year-old is very scared, and hudd