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Village development committee in Bagmati Zone, Nepal

Chapagaun

Chapagaun वादे is a village development committee in Godawari Municipality in Lalitpur District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal.

Chapagaun
Chapagaun · Nirjal stha
The place

Chapagaun वादे is a village development committee in Godawari Municipality in Lalitpur District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 9,600 in 1,643 individual households.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chapagaun

3 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
    Karya Binayak Temple

    Karya Binayak is a Hindu temple located in Bungamati, Lalitpur District. It is about ten kilometres south of Kathmandu.

    3.6 km · Hindu temple in Nepal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Simba waterfall

    Simba waterfall is located in Mahankal Rural Municipality, Lalitpur about 50 km from Kathmandu between Rigin Danda and Manikhel Khawa. The fall lies at an altitude of 2000 m, and it has five cascades.It is 300 meter tall.

    3.7 km · waterfall in Nepal · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pharping Hydro Power Project

    Pharping Hydro Power Project is the first hydro-power project of Nepal and second of South Asia. It is situated in Kathmandu district.

    3.3 km · dam in Pharping, kathmandu District · 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.

Go there

Getting to Chapagaun

Airports
Tribhuvan (KTM), 12 km · Pokhara (PHH), 142 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 187 km
  • Pokhara → Chapagaun
    245 km · quickest by road, 10h 29m · ₨2,130–2,840
  • Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) → Chapagaun
    244 km · quickest by road, 8h 20m · ₨1,610–2,150
  • Siliguri → Chapagaun
    717 km · quickest by road, 17h 34m · ₹6,750–8,450
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chapagaun

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 Chapagaun. 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

    170 km
  2. 02
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    564 km
  3. 03
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    647 km
  4. 04
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    689 km
  5. 05
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    718 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chapagaun

Chapagaun is 11 km from Kathmandu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Dakshinkalimunicipality in Kathmandu District, Nepal3.4 km
  • Chhaimalehuman settlement in Nepal3.5 km
  • Bungamativillage in Nepal2.2 km
  • Chhampivillage development committee in Bagmati Zone, Nepal1 km
  • Thechohuman settlement in Lalitpur District, Bagmati Province, Nepal3 km
  • Pharpinghuman settlement in Nepal3.3 km