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Village development committee in Bagmati Zone, Nepal

Sainbu

Sainbu is a village development committee in Lalitpur District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal.

The place

Sainbu is a village development committee in Lalitpur District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4,612 living in 874 individual households.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sainbu

10 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
    Patan Durbar Square

    Patan Durbar Square is situated at the centre of the city of Lalitpur in Nepal. It is one of the three Durbar Squares in the Kathmandu Valley, all of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

    3 km · square in Lalitpur, Nepal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kathmandu Zoo

    The Central Zoo is a 6-hectare zoo in Jawalakhel, Nepal. It is home to some 969 animals in 109 species, and is operated by the National Trust for Nature Conservation.

    2.6 km · zoo · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Taudaha Lake

    Taudaha Lake is a small lake in the outskirts of Kathmandu, in Nepal.

    2.8 km · lake in Nepal · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kumbheshwar Temple

    Kumbheshwar Temple is one of the oldest Hindu temples, situated 200m from the northern part of Patan Durbar Square. It was built in the 14th century by King Jayasthiti Malla which makes it the oldest temple in Patan.

    3.4 km · Hindu temple in Lalitpur, Nepal · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral, Kathmandu

    The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral is a Catholic church located in Lalitpur, Kathmandu, capital of Nepal. It began as the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption which was dedicated by Cardinal Jozef Tomko, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 15 August 1995.

    2.6 km · church in Kathmandu, Nepal · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground

    The Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, also known as TU International Cricket Ground or TU Cricket Ground, is an international cricket ground in Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal, within the premises of Tribhuvan University.

    3.7 km · Cricket Ground in Kathmandu, Nepal · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya

    Madan Puraskār Pustakālaya is a library of books and periodicals in the Nepali language. The library is a not-for-profits and non-governmental institution that is run by a trust.

    3.3 km · library in Nepal · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hiranya Varna Mahavihar

    Hiraṇyavarṇa Mahāvihāra, also Kwa Baha: informally called The Golden Temple with literal meaning "Gold-colored Great Monastery", is a historical vihara situated in Patan, Nepal.

    3.2 km · newar Buddhist temple in Nepal · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Patan Museum

    The Patan Museum is a museum located in Patan, Lalitpur, Nepal. The museum falls under the UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.

    3 km · history museum in Lalitpur, Nepal · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Krishna Mandir

    Krishna Mandir is a 17th-century Shikhara-style temple built by King Siddhi Narsing Malla. It is located at the Patan Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the city of Lalitpur in Nepal.

    3 km · Hindu temple in Lalitpur, 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.

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Getting to Sainbu

Airports
Tribhuvan (KTM), 7 km · Pokhara (PHH), 140 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 188 km
  • Pokhara → Sainbu
    148 km · quickest by road, 3h 51m · ₨750–1,000
  • Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) → Sainbu
    183 km · quickest by road, 4h 56m · ₨950–1,260
  • Siliguri → Sainbu
    326 km · quickest by road, 7h 22m · ₹3,190–3,990
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sainbu

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTaxis, minibuses, and tuk tuks are widely available.

From Wikivoyage: Patan, 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

    168 km
  2. 02
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    562 km
  3. 03
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    646 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

    722 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sainbu

Sainbu is 6 km from Kathmandu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.