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Village of Tarakeshwar Municipality in No. 3, Nepal

Dharmasthali

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

Dharmasthali
Dharmasthali · AusAID/Jim Holmes
The place

Dharmasthali is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Tarakeshwar Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 6,530 and had 1,421 households in it.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Dharmasthali

Airports
Tribhuvan (KTM), 9 km · Pokhara (PHH), 135 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 188 km
  • Pokhara → Dharmasthali
    5 km · quickest by road, 12 min · ₨26–34
  • Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) → Dharmasthali
    184 km · quickest by road, 4h 55m · ₨1,020–1,360
  • Siliguri → Dharmasthali
    331 km · quickest by road, 7h 32m · ₹3,230–4,040
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dharmasthali

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 Dharmasthali. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBy pre-arranged transfers – Available from most hotels and included in most trekking/touring packages.
  • Get inYour hotel or trekking company may also be able to help.
  • Get inBuses and minivans run between Kathmandu and the Nepalese border town of Kodari, across the Sino-Nepal Friendship Bridge from the Tibetan city of Zhangmu.
  • Get inPrivate jeeps (US$60 for up to 4 people) are a quicker option, and can make this journey in 4 hours.
  • Get inSunauli — rickshaw to the Nepalese border city of Bhairahawa (ten minutes from Sunauli).

From Wikivoyage: Kathmandu, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    162 km
  2. 02
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    555 km
  3. 03
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    647 km
  4. 04
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    696 km
  5. 05
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    727 km

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

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Next door to Dharmasthali

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