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Overview
Chandragiri Day tour delivers an extraordinary view of the Himalayan ranges, including Mt. Everest and Nepal valley with its surrounding territory as part of a Chandragiri Hills Sightseeing experience. Mt. Annapurna, Mt. Manaslu, Mt. Ganesh Himal, Mt. Langtang, Mt. Everest are major peaks that can be seen from the top of the hill during Chandragiri Hill Day Tour. The top of the Chandragiri Hill is the key attraction of this Chandragiri Hill Day Tour in Kathmandu Valley, which is located on 2551m above sea level. In addition, you can enjoy sky cycling, Zip line, Horse ride, swing, and free fall on your Chandragiri Trip. Chandragiri hill is the second-highest hill after Pulchowki; set up in the Southwest ridge of Kathmandu Valley and is one of the best Chandragiri Day Tour packages. The bottom of the Chandragiri hills is just 14 kilometers away from the center of the tourist hub,Thamel and takes 40 min drive with private transportation to reach for a Chandragiri Tour from Kathmandu. To achieve 2551m height from sea level, it takes 10-minute cable car ride. Chandragiri Temple has great significance for pilgrims, Historians, and travelers. If you have a spare day in Kathmandu, we highly recommend to take Bhaleswor temple tour to make a memorable stay here in Kathmandu while enjoying a complete Chandragiri Hill cable car 1 day Tour.
Note: If you want to spend a night in Chandragiri Hills, they do have resort near to the Temple.
Historical Significance of Chandragiri Hill Day Tour
Centuries back, the current territory of Nepal has more or less than 54 tiny ethnic kingdoms ruled by different dynasty, which now can be explored through a meaningful Chandragiri Hills Sightseeing experience. Malla was ruling inside the Kathmandu Valley where as Shah in Gorkha. Nepal valley was more civilized, developed, fertile and richer than Gorkha Kingdom. In 1760s prince Prithivi Narayan Shah from Gorkha was travelling towards his maternal mother’s home and reached on top of the Chandragiri hills, now a key highlight of Chandragiri Day Tour packages. He amazed with beauty of it and noticed beautiful and well-shaped valley down. He thought he would be rich and strong king if he could conquer the Nepal Valley. He worshiped the Bhaleswor Mahadev Temple exist on top of the hill, now explored during a Chandragiri Temple visit in a Chandragiri Cable car day tour and wished for successful annex. Later in 1768/69 he conquers the Nepal valley completely and started to rule from Kathmandu. Once he got rich and established well-developed kingdom, he got more confident and keep continue to add more kingdom on his territory, as remembered in modern Chandragiri Trip. He and his successor continued with the unification process and set the current territory of Nepal after many ups and down in and out the battle field, which today forms the core story shared in Chandragiri Tour from Kathmandu. The historian strongly said that this place as the seeds of unification process of Nepal, making it a culturally important stop during Chandragiri hill cable car 1 day Tour and adding value to the overall Chandragiri Hill Day Tour experience.
Religious Significance of Chandragiri Day Tour
Bhaleshwor Mahadev Temple is also set up over top of the hill and is a major spiritual highlight of a Chandragiri Day Tour and Chandragiri Hills Sightseeing. According to the texts in Himvatkhanda, Dakhsya Prajapati organized one grand fire sacrifice ceremony on his home and invited all god and goddess however he didn’t invite to Lord Shiva. That news transformed to home of lord Shiva and Satidevi went back to her mother’s home. At the ceremony, she saw everyone on that ceremony instead of her husband Lord Shiva and couldn’t tolerate this insult and then jumped over the blazing flame of fire. This story is also commonly shared by guides during a Chandragiri Hill Day. Lord Shiva became devasted by the loss of his wife and stepped down to earth carrying the body of Satidevi. Heaven fell into grief of silent, and then Brahma created a bacteria to decompose the body of Satidevi. As bacteria entered into body of Satidevi, it starts to get decayed and different parts of her body fell into various places on Earth. Chandragiri Temple is believed to be one of those sacred places. Wherever a body part fell, Goddess Shakti appeared and those places now came to be worshipped as Shakti Peeths. In Chandragiri, it is believed that Sati Devi’s bhala (forehead) fell and Bhaleswor Mahadev Temple appeared here which is now known as Chandragiri Temple visited during Chandragiri Hill Day Tour from Kathmandu. Pilgrimages believe that their wishes are fulfilled if they visit and worship this sacred temple during Chandragiri Tour from Kathmandu.
How can you reach Chandragiri Hill during Chandragiri Day Tour?
Chandragiri Hill is not too far away from central Kathmandu and can be reached within an hour with any kind of transportation, making it ideal for a Chandragiri Tour from Kathmandu. Local bus, Taxi, Motorcycle, cycle and private vehicle is available to reach on bottom of the hill, covering the short Kathmandu to Chandragiri Hillsdistance. You can take vehicle near to Chandragiri Hills top as well. However, road condition after Matatirhta is not paved and it may take hours to get to Chandragiri Hills Nepal. To avoid any unwanted situation people, prefer to take cable car ride from bottom of the hill, making it as a major highlight of Chandragiri cable car day tour.
Once you reach the bottom of the hill, you will find the cable car bottom station set at 1500m from sea level, where the Chandragiri hills cable car begins. Cable car runs for just 2.5 KM and gondola takes 9-10 minutes to reach on the top station, which is an important highlight of Chandragiri Hills Sightseeing. They do have more than 30 car and each car carry 8 people in one round. If you go on Monday, Saturday and festival day, you might encounter a long queue to get the cable car, so checking the Chandragiri Cable car opening time, Chandragiri Opening hours, and Chandragiri Hill Ticket Price before your Chandragiri trip can be very helpful. After you get down from the cable car at top station you need to walk 5-10 min to reach temple area.
Where do we put our shoes to enter the Bhaleswor Temple during Chandragiri hill day tour from Kathmandu?
Do not worry about it, Chandragiri Hill Station has proper shoe racks just in front of the Bhaleswor Mahadev Temple, a key stop during a Chandragiri Day tour and Chandragiri Hill Day Tour. It is totally safe to put your shoes there while you explore the sacred Chandragiri Temple area as part of your Chandragiri Hills Sightseeing experience. Visitors on a Chandragiri trip or Chandragiri cable car day tour can comfortably leave their footwear and visit the temple without any kind of stress.
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