Caves


Mahendra Cave resides in Batulechaur. Its a 10 minute drive from chipledhunga the central market place of the Pokhara city. Mahendra cave has been named as per the Late King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev.



Mahendra Gupha (Cave)

Mahendra Cave resides in Batulechaur. Its a 10 minute drive from chipledhunga the central market place of the Pokhara city. Mahendra cave has been named as per the Late King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev. This is also one of the most demanding tourist attraction center here in pokhara. It resides in the northern settlements of the valley.

This snap here features a visitor within the interior of the cave. This cave is a natural tunnel which is provided with artificial lighting systems. Bulbs are used by the cave incharge so that the visitors can visit it without any difficulty. But do take a torch light with you just in case the electricity goes off.

Mahendra cave is rich for its rock types and different stones that glitters when a beam of light is striked in it. This natural formation is to see not to strike with sharp digging objects.

This snap features the internal natural tunnel of the Mahendra Cave. This cave consist of big boulders of rock and the tunnel leads to different places like Kali Khola (River) but at present many of the tunnels are blocked by huge boulders of rock. A 10 minute walk from the Mahendra cave leads to Bat's Cave which is also known as the Chameri Gufa in Nepali. Pokhara has several caves and all these caves are home to the nocturnal flying Dracula known as the BAT.


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Bat Cave (Chamera Gupha)

This cave is located a little far form the Mahendra cave in the west .This cave was also discovered by the owner of the land – a farmer in the year 2040.Though the entrance is quite narrow but the inner part of the cave is wide enough. The images of the elephant tusk, gods and goddess have been craved on the inner walls of the cave.

This cave is 150 meter long , 25feet high and of the shape of “U”. This cave is famous for the bats and gives shelter to more than 15 thousand bats of different species. This cave needs to be advertised more for its development . It can be a nice picnic spot.


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Gupteshwar Gupha (Cave)

Gupteswar Gupha is a sacred cave, lies 2 km from Pokhara airport on the Siddhartha Highway leading southwest from the city. The entrance is right across from Devi's Fall and the cave is almost 3 km long. It has some big hall-size rooms and some passages where you have to crawl on all fours. This cave holds special value for Hindus since a phallic symbol of Lord Shiva is preserved here in the condition it was discovered. An entrance fee of Rs. 5 is charged and taking pictures inside the cave is prohibited.


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Crystal Cave

A cave by the name Crystal Cave has been discovered in Armala VDC, Kaski district. The origin of the cave has been dated back to seven lakh years before. The cave is 400 meters long. It has been named Crystal cave because of the crystals hanging down from the ceiling to grow 1 cm in length. The history of the cave has been dated seven lakhs years before through the length of the crystals. By its discovery, the number of the caves in Kaski district itself has risen upto four.

The cave is situated in Mr. Ram Bahadur Thapa’s land that is 7 km north from Pokhara. It was discovered by Yam Bahadur Sunar and Graig, 3 years before, but much of it was not heard since then, due to little advertisement done for it.

The main attraction of this cave are it’s crystals that are highly priced in the market. The walls of the cave have statues of Gods and Goddess engraved in them. It takes 1 hour to roam around in the cave. The cave has also a small well near the exit. The cave can become an important adventure spot for visitors here