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Village of Dakshinkali Municipality Ward 1 in No. 3, Nepal

Chalnakhel

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

Chalnakhel
Chalnakhel · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Taudaha Lake

    Taudaha Lake is a small lake in the outskirts of Kathmandu, in Nepal.

    1.5 km · lake in Nepal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Jal 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
  3. 03
    Karya 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
  4. 04
    Sheshnarayan 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
  5. 05
    Adinath 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

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 Chalnakhel

Airports
Tribhuvan (KTM), 11 km · Pokhara (PHH), 137 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 184 km
  • Pokhara → Chalnakhel
    146 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · ₨750–1,000
  • Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) → Chalnakhel
    180 km · quickest by road, 4h 59m · ₨950–1,270
  • Siliguri → Chalnakhel
    329 km · quickest by road, 7h 27m · ₹3,200–4,010
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    165 km
  2. 02
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    559 km
  3. 03
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    650 km
  4. 04
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    693 km
  5. 05
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    724 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chalnakhel

Chalnakhel is 8 km from Kathmandu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.