Nepal Pilgrimage

A visit to the Manakamana Bhagwati temple is believed to make your wishes come true.

The Manakamana Temple is the only place in Nepal where you can travel in a cable car. The cable car that operates since 1998 pulls you up in 10 minutes from Kulintar along the highway next to the Trisuli river to the top of the hill at 1302 meters where the Manakamana temple is situated.

_{Myth of the orgin of the Manakamana temple}

It is said that on the place of the Manakama temple the queen of Gorkha king Ram Shah who was obligated to perform Sati (join your dead husband in the cremation fire) after her husbands died was actually a godess. After her death she appeared here again close to one of her devotees Lakhan Thapa in the form of a stone from which blood and milk was flowing. That stone is the foundation of the Mankama temple. Until this date decents of Lakhan Thapa are the priests of the Mankama temple.

_{Making wishes come true at Manakamana temple}

To make sure that the Manakama godess manifests their wishes, people from Kathmandu first visit the Matidevi temple in Kathmandu and offer holy water (jal) .

_{How to get to the Manakamana temple}

From Kathmandu its a 2 hours drive with a car. Follow the road to Pokhara. From Pokhara it's about an 2,5 hours drive with a car. Several busses from Kathmandu go the Manakamana temple

Sources:

The eight Godesses - ECS Magazine - oct 2008
Manakamana Cable Car: Nepal's Only Cable Car - Colorful Nepal