Puranchaur
Puranchaur is a former Village Development Committee in Kaski District in the Gandaki Province of northern-central Nepal.
Puranchaur is a former Village Development Committee in Kaski District in the Gandaki Province of northern-central Nepal. It is now annexed to Pokhara metropolitan city, and is ward no. 19 of it. At the 2011 Nepal census, it had a population of 3,597 persons in 865 individual households.
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Worth seeing in and around Puranchaur
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.
- 01Mahendra Cave
Mahendra Gupha is a cave located in Pokhara-16, Batulechaur, Kaski district, close to the Kali khola, is a large limestone cave. It is a rare example of a cave system in Nepal containing stalagmites and stalactites.
5.5 km · Cave in Batulechaur, Kaski, Nepal · Wikipedia - 02Bat Cave
The Bat Cave is a solutional cave in the Kaski District in Pokhara, Nepal. It is known for a habitat of Horseshoe bats inside the cave, over the walls and ceiling.
6 km · cave system in Pokhara, Nepal · Wikipedia - 03Shiva Temple
Pumdikot is a hill station near Pokhara in Kaski District of Gandaki Province in Nepal. The place has a viewpoint at an altitude of 1,500 meters above sea level and has the second tallest statue of Shiva in Nepal, after Kailashnath Mahadev Statue.
800 m · Hindu temple at Pumdikot, Pokhara, Nepal · Wikipedia
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Getting to Puranchaur
- Airports
- Pokhara (PHH), 15 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 107 km · Tribhuvan (KTM), 151 km
- Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) → Puranchaur100 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · ₨700–930
- Kathmandu → Puranchaur149 km · quickest by road, 4h · ₨780–1,040
- Varanasi → Puranchaur344 km · quickest by road, 7h 53m · ₹3,170–3,960
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No local-transport research exists yet for Puranchaur
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 Puranchaur. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextKaskikot offers similarly scenic mountain views and is an hour's trek from Sarangkot
From Wikivoyage: Sarangkot, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2021-06.
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Next door to Puranchaur
Puranchaur is 6 km from Pokhara, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kaski Districtdistrict in Nepal1.8 km
- Ghachokvillage development committee in Gandaki Zone, Nepal5 km
- Lamachaursubdivision of Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolitan City in Gandaki Zone, Nepal4.9 km
- Armalavillage development committee in Kaski District3.9 km
- Sardikholavillage development committee in Gandaki Zone, Nepal5.9 km