Machhegaun
Machhegaun is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Chandragiri Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No.
Machhegaun is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Chandragiri Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,871.
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Worth seeing in and around Machhegaun
4 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.
3.4 km · lake in Nepal · Wikipedia - 02Bagh Bhairab Temple
Bagh Bhairab Temple is a historic Hindu temple dedicated to Bagh Bhairab, an incarnation of Shiva as a tiger. It is located in Kirtipur, Bagmati Province, Nepal and dates back to the 16th century.
3.4 km · HIndu temple in Kirtipur, Kathmandu · Wikipedia - 03Sheshnarayan 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.
3.9 km · Hindu temple in Nepal · Wikipedia - 04Matatirtha Temple
Matatirtha Temple is a Hindu temple in Matatirtha, Chandragiri Municipality, Nepal. The temple is famous for the Matatirtha Aunsi festival, a day to honour mothers and motherhood.
2.9 km · Hindu temple in Nepal · Wikipedia
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Getting to Machhegaun
- Airports
- Tribhuvan (KTM), 11 km · Pokhara (PHH), 135 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 182 km
- Pokhara → Machhegaun142 km · quickest by road, 3h 43m · ₨720–960
- Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) → Machhegaun178 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · ₨920–1,230
- Siliguri → Machhegaun332 km · quickest by road, 7h 32m · ₹3,240–4,050
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No local-transport research exists yet for Machhegaun
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 Machhegaun. 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 Machhegaun
Machhegaun is 8 km from Kathmandu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kirtipurmunicipality in Kathmandu District, Nepal3.4 km
- Talkududechourhuman settlement in Nepal3.5 km
- Sheshnarayanhuman settlement in Nepal3.9 km
- Tinthanahuman settlement in Nepal3.5 km
- Chalnakhelhuman settlement3 km
- Matatirthahuman settlement in Nepal1.8 km