Chalnakhel
Chalnakhel is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Dakshinkali Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No.
Chalnakhel is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Dakshinkali Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 4,365 living in 1,005 households.
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Worth seeing in and around Chalnakhel
5 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.
- 01Taudaha Lake
Taudaha Lake is a small lake in the outskirts of Kathmandu, in Nepal.
1.5 km · lake in Nepal · Wikipedia - 02Jal Binayak Temple
Jal Binayak is a Hindu Temple of Lord Ganesh located in the Chobhar, central part of Kathmandu District, Nepal. The Jal Binayak temple is the most important Ganesh shrine of the central region Kathmandu.
3.1 km · Hindu temple in Nepal · Wikipedia - 03Karya Binayak Temple
Karya Binayak is a Hindu temple located in Bungamati, Lalitpur District. It is about ten kilometres south of Kathmandu.
3.3 km · Hindu temple in Nepal · Wikipedia - 04Sheshnarayan Temple
The Sheshnarayan Temple is an ancient Hindu temple complex in Sheshnarayan Village Development Committee. The site is near the ancient town of Pharping, which lies approximately 20 kilometers south-west of Kathmandu, Nepal.
1.1 km · Hindu temple in Nepal · Wikipedia - 05Adinath Lokeshwar
Anandadi Lokeshwar Mandir is a temple sacred to Hindus and Buddhists in the village of Chobar, outside Kathmandu in Nepal. The temple is dedicated to Anandadi Lokeshwar, one of four principal Bodhisattvas honored as Lokeshwars in the Kathmandu Valley.
3.5 km · temple in Nepal · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chalnakhel
- Airports
- Tribhuvan (KTM), 11 km · Pokhara (PHH), 137 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 184 km
- Pokhara → Chalnakhel146 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · ₨750–1,000
- Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) → Chalnakhel180 km · quickest by road, 4h 59m · ₨950–1,270
- Siliguri → Chalnakhel329 km · quickest by road, 7h 27m · ₹3,200–4,010
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Chalnakhel
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 Chalnakhel. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Chalnakhel
Chalnakhel is 8 km from Kathmandu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kirtipurmunicipality in Kathmandu District, Nepal3.2 km
- Dakshinkalimunicipality in Kathmandu District, Nepal3.5 km
- Chobharvillage in Kathmandu District, Nepal3.5 km
- Bungamativillage in Nepal3.7 km
- Talkududechourhuman settlement in Nepal3.2 km
- Sheshnarayanhuman settlement in Nepal2 km