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Village of Chandragiri Municipality in No. 3, Nepal

Balambu

Balambu is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Chandragiri Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No.

Balambu
Balambu · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Balambu is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Chandragiri Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 7,323 and had 1,734 houses in it.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Balambu

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Tribhuvan University

    Tribhuvan University is a public university located in Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal. Established in 1959, TU is the oldest and the largest university in Nepal.

    3.9 km · public university in Kathmandu, Nepal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Halchowk Stadium

    Halchowk Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal. The stadium can accommodate 5,000 spectators.

    3.9 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bagh Bhairab Temple

    Bagh Bhairab Temple is a historic Hindu temple dedicated to Bagh Bhairab, an incarnation of Shiva as a tiger. It is located in Kirtipur, Bagmati Province, Nepal and dates back to the 16th century.

    3.5 km · HIndu temple in Kirtipur, Kathmandu · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tribhuvan University Central Library

    Tribhuvan University Central Library is an academic library. It is the largest public library in Nepal.

    3.8 km · public library in Nepal · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Seto Gumba

    Seto Gumba also known as Druk Amitabh Mountain, is a Buddhist monastery in Nepal. It is located in the Nagarjun Municipality of Kathmandu District.

    3.1 km · Buddhist monastery in Nepal · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Matatirtha Temple

    Matatirtha Temple is a Hindu temple in Matatirtha, Chandragiri Municipality, Nepal. The temple is famous for the Matatirtha Aunsi festival, a day to honour mothers and motherhood.

    2.9 km · Hindu temple in Nepal · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Nepal Olympic Museum

    The 'Nepal Olympic Museum' is a non-profit cultural and educational institution located in Kathmandu, Nepal. Established in 1994 A.D., it holds the distinction of being the first and only Olympic museum in the South Asian region.

    3.9 km · Museum in Nepal · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Balambu

Airports
Tribhuvan (KTM), 11 km · Pokhara (PHH), 133 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 183 km
  • Pokhara → Balambu
    156 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · ₨810–1,080
  • Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) → Balambu
    195 km · quickest by road, 5h 17m · ₨1,010–1,350
  • Siliguri → Balambu
    317 km · quickest by road, 7h 11m · ₹3,130–3,910
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Balambu

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Balambu. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextVisit Kathmandu, perhaps as a day trip from the relative quiet of Kirtipur.

From Wikivoyage: Kirtipur, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GhandrukNP

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    160 km
  2. 02
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    554 km
  3. 03
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    652 km
  4. 04
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    698 km
  5. 05
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    729 km

If you know how people move in Balambu – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Balambu

Balambu is 7 km from Kathmandu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.