Rukum

  Visiting Place in Rukum  

✔ Rukum is a famous place with its old stories, songs, and literature it’s also the headquarters of East Rukum.

✔ Rukum is divided into 2 districts now one is East Rukum and another one is West Rukum.

✔ Traveling through Rapti Highway from Lamahi to Dang Valley and Dang to Salyan we can see lots of beautiful views.

✔ There are many bike riders in Nepal and other countries too, so this may be a golden destination for riders even on a family trip.

✔ Tourists usually visit famous places because of publicized a lot, but hidden places are more beautiful in Nepal.

✔ Tharmare Bazaar is filled with cemented buildings and the availability of consumer goods in the market Bazaar has hotels, lodges, and restaurants in Bhagchaur Municipality.

✔ There is also a famous city Bhagchaur Bazaar naturally rich and beautiful place and Bhagchaur is a municipality. Rapti River originates here and this is also a source of Sarada River.

✔ The road is convenient usually a black-topped pit hole somewhere curved on small hills it’s enjoyable to travel.

✔ Bangelakuri is too cold being at the height, its high altitude market of Salyan and temporary huts to operate shops and old houses can be seen.

✔ Rapti highway covers Salyan a lot. Rapti Highway passes through Dang and covers Salyan hugely and a few regions of west Rukum.

✔ Jhulneta is the first market of West Rukum, new buildings are being constructed with hotels, restaurants, and bank facilities there. Jhulneta lies in Triveni Rural municipality.

✔ There is a place called Bairagithati that lies in Musikot Municipality, the new bridge is under construction and should pass the old iron bridge.

  1. Musikot Khalanga  

✔ Musikot is the headquarters of West Rukum which is also called Khalanga. There are many Khalanga in the west.

✔ The meaning of Khalanga is different in the East, it means Market it also means Army Barrack.

✔ Musikot Khalanga seems big city with huge corporate buildings, and financial institutions having many facilities.

✔ There is a Chipridaha in Rukumkot a newly developed Market, Chipridaha is a prime market area in Rukumkot.

✔ Rukumkot has 52 lakes and 53 hills. Rolpa and Rukumkot were in the center and affected a lot by the Maoist insurgency.

✔ There is a historical Luspa Spout that has water for 12 months existing centuries before can’t say how old is but it existed before in 1966 BS.

  2. Kamaldaha  

✔ According to locals, Kamaldaha is a source of this water so it never dries, there is a different section for gender previously there was a cast base top.

✔ The water is pure and tasty. Locals used to drink water from there, it is mostly used for bathing and washing.

✔ The view near Luspa Tap, sani Bheri River flows downwards. This is a tributary of the Karnali River.

✔ Kamaldaha (Kamal Lake) is filled with lotus, it takes an hour to walk around and it has an old history.

✔ There used to be a village earlier but later there is filled with water so locals migrated elsewhere after that this place became a lake.

✔ Kamaldaha is fenced a trail is made for hiking lotus (Kamal) can be seen inside the pond.

✔ The lake has the shape of Nepal’s Map circling 2 Km no existence of fish but we can find snakes.

✔ The root and fruits of Lotus are taken as medicine by their locals, it can cure jaundice, and pickle is made from root.

✔ It is believed that bathing in this lake can heal diseases, the lake has religious significance.

✔ This is the birthplace of Rukmini so it is also called Rukmani Lake from this Rukmini Lake Rukum’s name is derived.

✔ This Lake is believed to be the source of Luspa Tap but no flow of water can be seen.

✔ After a 10-minute drive from Rukumkot, we can reach at entrance of Deurali cave, there is a  beautiful village that lies near the cave.

✔ After descending, we can reach Ruwabang village, which is also called Rumalbala village, there is only 10 to 15 typical house in this village.

✔ We can see the small entry point, there are lots of unique shapes that seem interesting and distinct.

✔ There is a vast hall inside the cave, it looks like a huge Palace and has amazing structures it beautiful.

✔ After an hour’s drive from Rukumkot we can reach Kakri there is a tea shop on the side of the road.

✔ Road separates here for Taksera and Maikot, a village that can be seen on the hill.

✔ East Rukum is a newly created District and hence not promoted despite its beauty having a lot of potential.

  3. Lukum Village  

✔ Lukum lies 5km on an easy road from Kakri, a board seen there written Lukum but can’t see the village from the road.

✔ Lukum village has its own traditional culture and style. Lukum is situated just above from road with Dense old houses.

✔ Lukum village of East Rukum has 400 houses together with magar culture.

✔ This is the village of the diviner (Jhankri), the most populated Jhankri village, the Jhankri dance, and Bal Puja are performed here.

✔ Lukum village lies in Bhume Rural Municipality it’s 2100 Meters high from sea level. It is the Prime Magar village of Rukum.

✔ Located at the mid-hill highway, Village attracts travelers, and French anthropologists ani de researched there for a long time on magar tradition and culture.

✔ In July (Shrawan) a Jhankri fair is held, and many Jhankris dance here, Bhume puja is performed in June (Ashad).

✔ Bhume is the main festival there, Lukum lies 26km east of Rukumkot and 62 Km west of Baglung and Burtibang.

✔ Pokhara is a tourist destination for many tourists, visit Mustang from Pokhara and they go nearby Baglung and Mygadi but they don’t know this place.

✔ This is the west of Baglung and Mygadi, the highway from Baglung connects this not so far from there.

✔ Rukum has great potential this Lukum Village, Taksera, Rukumkot, and many other places of East Rukum.

✔ It took one hour to reach Dhuri (Rika) from Kakri, down for Rika there is also Kiubang village.

✔ Found an apple farm near Kiubang, there are peaches, apples, and potatoes on one farm.

✔ It is not suitable for a small car but a vehicle having good ground clearance 4WD and a motorcycle can easily move.

✔ Goats are grazing, a river downwards Uttarganga River can’t be seen from here local called it sani veri.

✔ Tak village is on the other side and there are two Sera villages, Lower Sera and Upper Sera.

✔ Four villages are nearby in this area, the topmost is Bachhi village after that is Tak, and there are Lower and Upper Sera.

✔ There is a suspension bridge in Uttarganga Bridge only to cross on foot, but no motorable bridge there so vehicles go through the river.

  4. Taka Village  

✔ The oldest village in Nepal is Taka which existed 1,000 years ago sera and Taka village is near the Uttarganga River.

✔ We can see Tak and Bachhi villages far away from Lower Sera, Bachhi village, Tak, and 2 Seras 4 villages combined are called Taksera.

✔ Tak and Sera lie on the North and South on both sides of Uttarganga but both villages are only physically separated they are the same in sentiments.

✔ Locals compare Tak and Sera to 2 eyes of a person with a nose between the eyes a hill divides villages.

✔ Locals proud of their culture, Uttarganga flows between hills and Sera on the bank of a river. It’s one of the most beautiful villages in Nepal.

✔ On the bottom of Tak village “Pahuna Ghar” homestay opened recently this is a typical style homestay.

✔ Tak is a historical village the real name of this village is “Chelbang” Chel means to swim and Bang is Ground.

✔ This is an ancient village having existed for 1000 years ago. Gharti started living there first they came here to hunt and see this place.

✔ The oldest house lies on the top of the village and organic agriculture is performed there.

✔ This village saw different stages of history, save its existence through various pandemics, smallpox and leprosy hits this village.

✔ Arable lands near the village but paddy is not grown there, some cereals and potatoes are grown.

✔ The previous generations who didn’t get rice to eat now everything is available due to transportation.

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