Kathmandu Highlights Tour: Major Landmarks and Cultural Experiences

Experience Kathmandu’s major landmarks and cultural highlights in this flexible one-day tour. Visit iconic sites such as Old Durbar Square, Swayambhunath, and Pashupatinath Temple. Enjoy a delicious lunch and guided tours throughout the day.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Kathmandu - Kathmandu Nepal’s one-day tour starts from your hotel in Kathmandu, where our city tour guides will accompany you around places of great interest for five to seven hours with fascinating times around impressive places within the city.

As Kathmandu Darbar square is blessed with ancient historical palaces, religious monuments of both Hindu temples and Buddhist monasteries located side by side in perfect harmony, where you can observe wonderful sites as listed in World Heritage, a short drive to inner parts of Kathmandu city and visit places of great wonders of old Hanuman Dhoka.

From here visit the Resident and Living quarter of the famous Kumari regarded as Living-Goddess (a young girl picked before reaching puberty period, retires after reaching woman-wood with the first period).
Continue to visit Monkey Temple the Swyambhunath stupa, Boudhanath the Buddhi stupa & Pashupatinath the open public ceremony.

  • Swayambhunath - The oldest Buddhist stupa on the highest hill in Kathmandu.
  • Boudhha - The Biggest stupa in Kathmandu valley, Tibetan people live in this area.
  • Pashupatinath Temple - Very Important open public cremation ceremonies.
What's Included
  • Car parking fees, gas for car/van
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Private tour
  • Professional guide
  • Air condition car/van with driver
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Monuments entry fees pay locally NPR 2600 per person, pay in local currency directly to monumnets
  • TIPS/ Gratitudes to Guide and Driver
Additional Information

Flexible itinerary- time can be arranged as per your request.

1: Depart from the hotel visiting Old Durbar Square area for an hour.

2: Drive to Swayambhunath or Monkey Temple of 30 mins

3: Drive to Pashupatinath Temple tour of an hour with 30 -40 mins drive.

4: Short drive to Bouddhanath Stupa
5: Drive back to the hotel and end of the Nepal One Day Tour.

Lunch(optional, pay locally) hour in between the tour where our city guides will take you to nice and hygienic restaurants with great foods for your appetite.

A Guided Nepal One Day Tour includes guide, excellent condition cars-coach as per group size with healthy and cheerful driver with expert-professional tour guides.

  • A minimum of 1 pax people per booking is required
Location
Kathmandu
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Jayashk2024
Jul 29, 2024
Excellent - The trip very early in yhe morning and nice to go in the himalayas with helicopter. We liked the entire experience. Highly appreciage it.
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Voyage28531158873
Jul 19, 2024
Incredible - Amazing! We had an awesome tour guide, he was very knowledgeable and professional. He answered all of our questions and showed us all the UNESCO sites, he was very patient. The company is also very reliable and professional, he really made our time there magnificent and easy for us to access everything.
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Annasi7234wo
Jul 18, 2024
Kathmandu tour - It was a nice trip. The car was clean and air-conditioned, the drive was smooth. Paras was friendly and knowledgeable. There was no rush, I could enjoy every place to the fullest. As a female solo traveler I felt very safe. Was a great thing to do on my last day in Kathmandu and they conveniently dropped me off at the airport. Highly recommended!
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Voyage28531158873
Jul 16, 2024
Very professional and knowledgeable - Very professional and plenty of years of experience. We felt extremely comfortable with everything he planned for us and how honest he was about what we would be able to see. Unfortunately it was monsoon season so we had to cancel the helicopter and do the plane instead but we felt so glad to have someone as professional and honest and felt fortunate to have found him. The experience (plane or helicopter) is well worth it. We decided to go on a guided tour of the city visiting some of the UNESCO sites and our tour guide Paras was very entertaining and knowledgeable. Glad we met them both, we highly recommend and will go through them if we go back to Nepal as well as recommend to family and friends.
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Shristinab2024
Jul 9, 2024
nice - Kathmandu has a lot to see in terms f culture and temples and even places to eat. Private your is always nice and enjoyable.
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N2701wmgregoryk
Jun 24, 2024
Fantastic tour! - Paras was awesome! We saw 4-5 of the most important cultural sites, and he explained everything…even providing a few recommendations for a return trip. Our driver was fantastic as well!
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W3045bhsusann
Jun 22, 2024
Exceptional company - What a wonderful company! I had 36 hours in Kathmandu, and was looking for a blend of culture, history, and nature. Buddhi is incredibly helpful and transparent — not only did he arrange a day-of, reasonably priced private tour of Kathmandu with the knowledge and lovely guide Paras, he also sat down with me in person to walk through what an Everest helicopter tour entails the day before we were looking to fly. Incredibly ethical company, you’ll have a top-notch experience. Thank you, Buddhi and Paras!
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Andrew
Jun 20, 2024
Take me to Kathmandu! - Paras was fantastic, very knowledgeable. If you haven't been to Kathmandu yet, it's a must stop. The culture, the people, the history, the food all fantastic. The driver was awesome too. I highly recommend this tour and these fine people. The hospitality is top notch.
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Elmer_s
May 13, 2024
Great Kathmandu Tour Experience - Well-organized tour, with a very knowledgeable tour guide. We did the Mt Everest helicopter tour (with the same tour company) in the morning, then did this Kathmandu highlights tour in the afternoon. Just like the morning tour, we were impressed by how well-organized this tour company was... being able to cover most of the "can't miss" tourist sites in Kathmandu in such a very short time... and we didn't feel rushed at all. Pacing was right, and schedule was dynamically updated/adjusted as we went along. Paras, our tour guide, was an excellent story teller, which kept me and my wife very interested aboit the different places that we visited. A big bonus is Paras' excellent photography skill. He's a great help in documenting your Kathmandu memories. This tour company is very highly recommended if you want to visit Kathmandu.... and if Paras is available when you schedule your tour, I very highly recommend him.
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Adam_k
May 6, 2024
This is a must see in Kathmandu - While in Nepal, we used several companies organizing trips. The impressions were different. Kathmandu tour is definitely worth its decent price. The guide and driver arrived on time. The car was very comfortable. A very communicative guide with extensive knowledge and experience. I highly recommend.
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