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. 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 ā 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 āUā. 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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