Sitapaila
Sitapaila is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Nagarjun Municipality in Province No.
Sitapaila is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Nagarjun Municipality in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. The name of the community comes from "Sita" who was the wife of Lord Ram and daughter of Nepalese King Janak and "paila" meaning footsteps in Nepali. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5,156 and had 1,008 households in it.
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Getting to Sitapaila
- Airports
- Tribhuvan (KTM), 8 km · Pokhara (PHH), 135 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 186 km
- Pokhara → Sitapaila143 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · ₨730–970
- Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) → Sitapaila13 km · quickest by road, 35 min · ₨50–70
- Siliguri → Sitapaila331 km · quickest by road, 7h 24m · ₹3,220–4,020
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Sitapaila
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 Sitapaila. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Sitapaila – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Sitapaila
Sitapaila is 4 km from Kathmandu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.