Chandragiri Hills

The dashed line is the mapped corridor through the valley and its villages, not a surveyed footpath. The real trail switchbacks around it — treks are verified against the corridor, not metre by metre.

A steady climb from Thankot on the old Tribhuvan highway up to Chandragiri, finishing at the Bhaleshwor Mahadev temple on the summit. A cable car runs the same hill, which makes this the rare Kathmandu walk you can do one way and ride back down — and the reason it is busy at weekends.