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Village of Dakshinkali Municipality in No. 3, Nepal

Chhaimale

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

Chhaimale
Chhaimale · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Chhaimale 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 4,216 living in 968 households.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chhaimale

2 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
    Dakshinkali Temple

    Dakshinkali Temple is a Hindu temple in Nepal dedicated to the goddess Kali. Dakshin Kali is typically shown with her right foot on Shiva's chest—while depictions showing Kali with her left foot on Shiva's chest depict the even more fearsome Vamakali.

    1.2 km · Hindu temple in Nepal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    1.3 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.

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Getting to Chhaimale

Airports
Tribhuvan (KTM), 15 km · Pokhara (PHH), 139 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 183 km
  • Pokhara → Chhaimale
    147 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · ₨800–1,070
  • Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) → Chhaimale
    178 km · quickest by road, 4h 50m · ₨920–1,230
  • Siliguri → Chhaimale
    329 km · quickest by road, 7h 46m · ₹3,300–4,120
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chhaimale

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 Chhaimale. 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

    167 km
  2. 02
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    561 km
  3. 03
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    651 km
  4. 04
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    692 km
  5. 05
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    719 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chhaimale

Chhaimale is 14 km from Kathmandu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Dakshinkalimunicipality in Kathmandu District, Nepal2.2 km
  • Talkududechourhuman settlement in Nepal3.9 km
  • Sheshnarayanhuman settlement in Nepal3.7 km
  • Pharpinghuman settlement in Nepal1.3 km
  • Devichourvillage development committee in Bagmati Zone, Nepal3 km
  • Dukuchhapvillage development committee in Bagmati Zone, Nepal3 km