Village of Nagarjun Municipality in Province No. 3, Nepal
Sitapaila
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.
How locals move
Getting around Sitapaila the local way
- 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).
- Get aroundMicrobuses are typically minivans with a surprising number of seats crammed in - they have a "conductor" who leans out of the door and shouts the destinations, which are also often written on the front in Nepali.
From Wikivoyage: Kathmandu, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Rajesh Dhungana (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.