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Village in Bagmati Province, Nepal

Pasikot

Pasikot, situated at Budhanilkantha Municipality, is a village in Budhanilkantha in Kathmandu District in Bagmati Province before being incorporated into the city of Budhanilkantha in Nepal.

Pasikot
Pasikot · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Pasikot, situated at Budhanilkantha Municipality, is a village in Budhanilkantha in Kathmandu District in Bagmati Province before being incorporated into the city of Budhanilkantha in Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 15,421.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pasikot

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
    Budhanilkantha Temple

    Budanilkantha Temple, located in Budhanilkantha, Nepal, is a Hindu open air temple dedicated to Lord Mahavishnu. Budhanilkantha Temple is also known as the Narayanthan Temple for Hindus, and can be identified by a large reclining statue of Lord Mahavishnu.

    1.3 km · Hindu temple in Kathmandu District, Nepal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park

    Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park is the ninth national park in Nepal and was established in 2002. It is located in the country's mid-hills on the northern fringe of the Kathmandu Valley and named after Shivapuri Peak at 2,732 m altitude.

    3.9 km · national park of Nepal · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kopan Monastery

    Kopan Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Boudhanath, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. It is a member of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, an international network of Gelugpa dharma centers, and once served as its headquarters.

    2.7 km · tibetan Buddhist monastery near Kathmandu, Nepal · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Amitabha Monastery

    Amitabha Monastery is a Himalayan Buddhist monastery in Nepal.

    2.5 km · Himalayan Buddhist monastery in Nepal · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Gokarneshwor Mahadev temple

    Gokarna Mahadev or Gokarneshwor Mahadev Temple is an important Nepali temple, situated near the village of Gokarna, several kilometers northeast of Bodhnath in the Kathmandu Valley. Within the temple's sanctum lies an important lingam of the Hindu god Shiva, but its fame relies mainly on the collection of statues and carvings around the temple.

    3.7 km · Hindu temple in Kathmandu district, 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.

Go there

Getting to Pasikot

Airports
Tribhuvan (KTM), 8 km · Pokhara (PHH), 141 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 195 km
  • Pokhara → Pasikot
    7283 km · quickest by air, 15h 44m · ₨82,420–127,750
  • Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) → Pasikot
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Siliguri → Pasikot
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pasikot

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundIt is entirely possible to trek from one village to another in the Valley (some examples below), otherwise it is easy to hire a taxi or take local buses to get around the Kathmandu Valley.
  • Go nextA good centre for trekking, most notably to the Annapurna area.

From Wikivoyage: Kathmandu Valley, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    640 km
  4. 04
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    690 km
  5. 05
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    721 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pasikot

Pasikot is 9 km from Kathmandu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.