Caving and hiking day tour

Caving & hiking day tour in Kathmandu – unraveling the mystiques of Kathmandu

Are you looking for something extra and unique one full day activities in Kathamdu? We are wellcoming you to book this tour with us and make your Kathamndu stay unforgetable by getting inside the Manjushree Caves in Chovar followed by an easy relaxing hike around the suberbs of southern Kathmadnu. Your caving trip will be around 1 hour long and you will pass through 268 meteres inside the cave. You do not need be worried with caving because we gurantee your safety as we have cave guides of local area who know these caves since their childhood and have stories to tell you about these caves.

Kathmandu, the only city in the world where ancient history and rich culture, the masterpieces of art and architecture, the faith and civilization, nature and beauty, blends into a beautiful fireball of life. This one day caving and hiking tour lets you unravel these many facets of Kathmandu and make up one of the best day of your life.

Trip Costs $ 85 per person.

For this tour we have introduced two routes, look at the details, see the itinerary and choose any one that clicks your preference:

The Bungmati Route itinerary:

We will start our tour at 9 am. After your breakfast, a private car will pick you up from your hotel and take us to the Chovar hill. (30 minutes drive) Upon our arrival, we will admit into the Manjushree Park and Cave reservation. We will begin exploring the Chovar caves, which are the second largest cave in Nepal and the third largest in Asia. Our cave guide will take you inside the cave for about 268 meters for around 1 hour.

After finishing our caving, we will visit the nearby Jalabinayak temple, where the famously self incarnated statue of Hindu god Ganesh resides. It is one of the oldest temples of Nepal and one of the main four Ganesh shrines of the Valley.

From there we will start our hiking to nearby Chovar Gorge. Carved out of a hillside, the Chovar gorge is the only outlet for all the waters of the valley. Legend has it that Manjushree, an ancient Buddhist deity cut the mountain with her magical sword to drain the water from Kathmandu valley which was then just a lake. It has been proved scientifically that Kathmandu used to be a lake and all the water of the valley was drained out from exactly this point too.

From there we will move on to our next destination the Bungmati and Khokana village, (1 hour hike) which are the first human settlements after the mystical establishment of Kathmandu valley. The ancient newari culture and civilization is still living in this village, as if they are an open museum and life still is in the age of medieval period.

We will stop for lunch in there, and after that continues our hike to the Taudaha lake. (1 hour hike) Legends has it that, this lake was made by the Buddhist deity, Manjushree, the very same who cut the Chovar hill to help start human settlement. This lake was made to house the numerous Nags, hindu mystical snakes, that lived in the lake of the valley before. Till now it is believed that the King of all Nags, who the then believed have resided in the old lake, is taking shelter in the Taudaha lake.

After our sightseeing tour in the Taudaha lake, our private car will pick us up and take us back to your hotel.

The Kirtipur route itinerary:

We will start our tour at 9 am. After your breakfast, a private car will pick you up from your hotel and take us to the Chovar hill. (30 minutes drive) Upon our arrival, we will admit into the Manjushree Park and Cave reservation. We will begin exploring the Chovar caves, which are the second largest cave in Nepal and the third largest in Asia. Our cave guide will take you inside the cave for about 268 meters for around 1 hour.

After finishing our caving thrill we will visit the nearby Jalabinayak Temle. As explained above, it is dedicated to the God Ganesh, whose image is believed to have been self immerged from the water and thus aptly named Jala binayak- water Ganesh .

We will visit the Chovar gorge, and from there start our hike to the nearby small hill where the Adinath temple (30 minutes hike) is located. Nepal, particularly Kathmandu is the perfect example to the world to show the religious tolerance and mutual love and respect towards each other. The Adinath temple, ancient temple filled with rich history is a shrine that is beloved to both Hindu and Buddhist, who visit the temple to pay respect to the Adinath god without any reservation and pure faith.

From the Adinath temple, we will continue our hike to the Kirtipur (45 minutes Hike). Kirtipur is one of the historically and culturally rich sights of the kathmandu valley, which now is a small cultural town over a small hill. Upon arrival we will stop for lunch in a nearby restaurant.

After the lunch, we will visit the Bagh Bhairav, Uma Maheswor, Ganesh and Kumar temples of Kirtipur. Finishing our cultural sightseeing, our private car will pick us up from there and drop to your hotel.