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Jamchhen Gumba - monastery near Budhanikantha, Kathmandu

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Jamchhen Gumba, also reknown as Jamchhen Vijaya Stupa is one of the beautiful monasteries near Kathmandu Valley. You can directly take a private vehicle or taxi to the gumba with the following instructions. But if you are taking a public bus then you can find sajha bus or any other public vehicle from ring road or jamal. After reaching Budhanilkantha, enter from the gate of the temple and go straight. You will find a Y junction where you have to take the road on your left and go ahead straight along with the road. Walking for 8-10 minutes ahead there you find the junction of the road which has a temple on the right side. From there you have to take left turn. There are also signs for the way to stupa on different places also. After taking left from the temple from above picture you will find a gate of aitabare within 15 minutes. Then you will find the two ways over there. You can take any road to reach the stupa but the left one is the shortcut to the s

Way to Kapan Monastery (Fhulari Gumba)

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There are forming a number of monasteries around Kathmandu Valley. Among this Kapan Monastery is also the one which is being popular nowadays within the people staying inside valley for a day hike or a day tour both. Kapan Monastery is located at the Kapan inside the jungle. You can reach there with your personal vehicle or as the steps mentioned below. The location shown up after half an hour of walk from the gokarna temple or gokarna bus stop. So, you can take taxi or any local bus upto gokarna temple and have short hike upto monastery. You can find bus from any station of chakrapath (Swayambu, Balaju, New Buspark). If you are not able to find direct bus to Gokarna then you can take bus upto Baudha or Jorpati and then another bus towards Gokarna Temple. After reaching Gokarna Temple you will find board of Sahayogi School on the left side. Take that way up to the small gate and follow the black pitch road until you reach the junction of five roads where you can find the S