Thankot.com
About

About Thankot.com

Who writes this site, why it exists, how each page is researched and checked, and how to tell us when we have got something wrong.

Thankot.com Editorial Desk Last checked August 2026 6 min read
Editorial standardsContact us

Why this site exists

Thankot is one of the most passed-through places in Nepal and one of the least written about. Every bus arriving in the Kathmandu Valley from the west comes through it. Roughly a million people a year ride a cable car up the ridge above it. And until recently there was no single English-language source that told a visitor what the bus actually costs, when the last one leaves, which month gives you the mountain view, or why a settlement at this particular gap in the hills mattered enough to be fought over.

That gap is the whole reason for Thankot.com. We publish practical travel information that is checked rather than copied, and heritage writing that separates what the historical record supports from what the vamshavali chronicle tradition and local memory say. Both halves matter. A place reduced to its ticket prices is not understood, and a place described only through legend is not usable.

The site is a heritage project rather than a booking agency. We sell nothing, we take no commission on any ticket, and we have no commercial relationship with the cable car operator, any hotel, or any transport provider mentioned on this site. When we say a fare is a range and should be confirmed, that is because it is, not because we are hedging towards a partner.

The publisher

Site
Thankot.com
Published by
Thankot.com Heritage Project
Founded
2025
Based in
Chandragiri Municipality, Kathmandu district, Bagmati Province, Nepal
Coverage area
Thankot, Chandragiri, Matatirtha, Dahachowk and the western valley rim
Contact
contact@thankot.com
Scope

What we cover, and what we do not

We write about

  • Practical travel: routes, fares, timings, seasons and what a day costs, in the visit section
  • The temples, ponds, parks and viewpoints of the area, one page each, under attractions
  • The documented and the traditional history of the western valley rim, in the chronicles
  • The jatra calendar and what actually happens on each day
  • Nepali traditional games, playable free, in the game parlor

We do not

  • Sell tickets, tours, accommodation or transport, or take a commission on any of them
  • Publish sponsored articles or paid placements dressed as editorial
  • Quote a fare as fixed when it is negotiated, seasonal or subject to revision
  • State a legend as documented history, however often it is repeated elsewhere
  • Publish a page about a place nobody on the team has been to
The team

Who writes Thankot.com

Three desks, each with a stated area of competence. Every article carries the byline of the desk that produced it.

We publish under desk names rather than individual bylines because the work is collective and because several contributors are residents who prefer not to be named individually online. The named contact for any question about authorship, sourcing or a correction is contact@thankot.com.

Editorial standards

How we research and check a page

The standard we hold every page to, and what we do when we fall short of it.

Every page on Thankot.com is written from on-the-ground visits, interviews with local residents and temple committees, and published Nepali historical sources. Pages carry the date they were last checked. Where a claim is legend rather than documented history, we say so in the text.

The six rules we work to

  1. Go there. We do not publish a page about a site nobody on the team has visited. Trail times are walked, queue times are queued, and the bus is taken rather than looked up.
  2. Prefer the operator to the aggregator. For a fare or an opening time, the organisation that sets it is the source. Where we cannot reach them, we say the figure is a published range and name what to confirm.
  3. Give a range rather than a false precision. An honest "NPR 800 to 1,500, agreed before you get in" is more useful than a confident single number that was true once. Every money figure on this site is a planning range.
  4. Mark legend as legend. Where a claim rests on the vamshavali tradition, on temple oral history or on repetition rather than on evidence, the text says so in the sentence itself, not in a footnote.
  5. Date everything. Every page carries a published date and a last-checked date, and the last-checked date only moves when somebody has actually rechecked it.
  6. Show the sources. Every guide and article carries a byline listing what was consulted: operators, published Nepali sources, government material and named local interviews.

How a page gets made

  1. Field work. Somebody walks the route, sits in the temple courtyard, takes the photographs and writes down what things cost that day.
  2. Documentary check. Historical claims are checked against published Nepali-language chronicles and academic work on the period. Transport and infrastructure claims are checked against Department of Roads material and national reporting.
  3. Local review. Where a page concerns a temple, a festival or a neighbourhood, we put the draft in front of somebody from the relevant committee or family before it goes up.
  4. Publication with dates. The page ships with a named desk byline, a published date, a last-checked date and a source list.
  5. Recheck cycle. Fare, timing and seasonal pages are rechecked at least twice a year, and after any event that would change them.

Independence and funding

Thankot.com is self-funded and carries no sponsored content. If we ever run advertising or affiliate links, they will be labelled as such in the place they appear, and no commercial arrangement will change what a page says about a fare, a queue or a view. We accept no payment for inclusion in any list on this site, and no operator has been given approval over our copy.

Use of artificial intelligence

Language tools are used for editing and structure. They are not used to generate facts. Every fare, date, distance, elevation and historical claim on this site traces to a human check against a source or a visit, and a page that cannot show that does not go up.

Corrections

How to report a correction

We would rather be corrected than be wrong in public.

If a fare, an opening time, a bus route, a festival date, a name, a spelling or a historical claim on this site is wrong, tell us. Email contact@thankot.com or use the contact form, and include:

  • The page address, so we know exactly what to look at
  • The sentence or figure you believe is wrong
  • What it should say, and how you know, if you are able to say

We aim to acknowledge within three working days. A factual error is corrected as soon as we can verify the correct position, and the last-checked date on the page moves when we do it. Where a correction changes the substance of what a page claimed, we say so in the page rather than editing quietly. Where a reader disagrees with a judgement rather than a fact, we will say that too, and leave the reader to weigh it.

Correction process

Where to send
contact@thankot.com
Acknowledgement
Within three working days
Fare and timing errors
Verified with the operator, then corrected
Historical claims
Checked against published sources before any change
Substantive changes
Noted on the page, not edited silently
Date handling
Last-checked date moves only on a real recheck

Start reading

Visiting Thankot

The practical guide: costs, timings, itineraries and highlights.

How to get to Thankot

Every route from Kathmandu with fares and the last service back.

The chronicles

What the record supports, and where legend takes over.

Frequently asked questions

Twenty-four answers grouped by topic.

Contact us

Questions, corrections and local knowledge welcome.

Privacy policy

What we collect, which is very little, and why.

Found something we got wrong?

Corrections from readers and residents are the fastest way this site gets better. Tell us what is wrong and we will check it and fix it.

Send a correction Start with the visit guide