Tumlingtar () is a region and a town, in

Sankhuwasabha district Sankhuwasabha District ( ne, सङ्खुवासभा जिल्ला ) is one of 14 districts of Province No. 1 of eastern Nepal. The district's area is 3,480 km2 with a population of 159,203 in 2001 and 158,742 in 2011 ...

Province No. 1 Province No. 1 (proposed names: Kirat, Limbuwan, Khambuwan, Sagarmatha, Birat and Koshi) is the easternmost of the seven provinces established by the new constitution of Nepal which was adopted on 20 September 2015. The province covers an ...

Eastern Nepal The Eastern Development Region (Nepali: पुर्वाञ्चल विकास क्षेत्र, ''Purwānchal Bikās Kshetra'') was one of Nepal's five development regions. It is also known as Kirata region. It was located at the ...

, between the Arun and Sabha rivers. It is located in

Sankhuwasabha District Sankhuwasabha District ( ne, सङ्खुवासभा जिल्ला ) is one of 14 districts of Province No. 1 of eastern Nepal. The district's area is 3,480 km2 with a population of 159,203 in 2001 and 158,742 in 2011 ...

. It is also the deepest valley of the world and largest ''ṭār'' (

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mesa A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by a ...

) of Nepal.Tumlingtar, Nepal
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Demographics

The indigenous tribe of Tumlingtar is Kumal. Their traditional profession is pot-making, though only a few still practise this career nowadays. The other tribes living there are

Bahun Bahun ( ne, बाहुन) or Khas Brahmin ( ne, खस ब्राह्मण) is a caste ( ''Varna'') among Khas people of Nepal. Their origins are from the Indo-Aryan Khasa tribe of Nepal and South Asia. According to the 2011 Nep ...

Chhetri Chhetri (Kshetri, Kshettri, Kshetry or Chhettri), ( ne, क्षेत्री ; IAST: ''Kṣetrī'') historically called Kshettriya or Kshetriya or Khas are Nepali speakers of Khas community, some of whom trace their origin to migration fr ...

, Magar, Rai, Tamang, Newar and Majhi. The inhabitants have shown racial harmony. The people of any tribe are always helpful to the rest in the rituals. The total number of families in Tumlingtar is about 600.

Transport

As urbanisation has been growing here, many people of the surrounding areas are drawn to the city nowadays. This is the southernmost point from which the bus regularly goes to the district headquarters. You can reach Tumlingtar by airways or roadways. It will take around 5–6 hours while traveling from some bigger cities like;

Biratnagar Biratnagar () is a metropolitan city in Nepal, which serves as the capital of Province No. 1. With a population of 242,548 as per the 2011 census, it is the largest city in the province and also the headquarters of Morang district. As per the ...

Itahari Itahari ( ne, ईटहरी) is a sub-metropolitan city in the Sunsari District of Province No. 1 of Nepal. Itahari city is business hub of eastern Nepal. It is the second most populous city in Eastern Nepal after Biratnagar. Situated at a dist ...

Dharan Dharan ( ne, धरान) a sub-metropolitan city in Sunsari District of Province No. 1, Nepal, which was established as a fourth municipality in the Kingdom in 1958. It is the third most populous city in Eastern Nepal after Biratnagar and ...

. Being located in the Himalayan region, most of the city is offroads, whereas

Koshi highway Koshi Highway ( ne, कोशी राजमार्ग) or H08 is a 390 km long planned highway located in Province No. 1 of Nepal. It is north-south highway which is understood to be shortest highway which connects India to China acro ...

draw a black pitch road from the heart of the city. Planes regularly fly from

Tumlingtar Airport Tumlingtar Airport is a domestic airport located in Tumlingtar serving Sankhuwasabha District, a district in Province No. 1 in Nepal. It is the main tourist gateway to Makalu Barun National Park. History The airport started operations on 01 ...

and

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. Currently, the airlines operating flights from Tumlingtar are

Buddha Air Buddha Air Pvt. Ltd ( ne, बुद्ध एयर) is an airline based in Jawalakhel, Lalitpur, Nepal, near Patan. It operates domestic as well as international services within Nepal and India, serving mainly large towns and cities in Nepa ...

and

Yeti Airlines Yeti Airlines Pvt. Ltd. ( ne, यती एअरलाइन्स) is an airline based in Kathmandu, Nepal. The airline was established in May 1998 and received its Air Operators Certificate on 17 August 1998. Since 2019, Yeti Airlines is ...

. Tumlingtar is the primary gateway airport for reaching

Makalu Makalu ( ne, मकालु हिमाल, Makālu himāl; zh, t=馬卡魯峰, p=Mǎkǎlǔ fēng) is the fifth highest mountain in the world at . It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas southeast of Mount Everest, in Nepal. One of th ...

, the peak being roughly 50 km to the north of the city, with the base camp being accessible by trekking routes.

Local infrastructure

There are some smaller hotels in Tumlingtar, but they generally do not have the facilities required to meet international standards. The city has two schools. The

Manakamana Higher Secondary School Manakamana Secondary School is a school located in Jorpati, Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. The school have classes from Play Group to +2. This school is fully fledged Co-educational institution. This school is registered under Ministry Of Edu ...

is the largest public school, with other schools here including Arun Valley English Boarding School & Shree Deu International Boarding School which now collaborate and named as Golden Stars English school. It is the only private school in Tumlingtar. There is also a mart where you can get all your necessities.

Environment

Tumlingtar was once a site of concern of the Nepalese because of the

Arun III Arun III is a hydro-electric project under construction on the Arun River in Sankhuwasabha District of Province 1, Nepal. The project is of 900 megawatts capacity and will be the largest hydropower plant in South Asia. It is constructed by SJVN ...

hydro-electric project. After Arun III established its head office for large 900 MW, this valley has become a centre of attraction for rest of the country. Arun III has the only gateway which is through Tumlingtar. It have the moderate temperature where during the summer the maximum temperature is 35 degree centigrade and in winter it can fall upto 12 degree centigrade.

Religious places

The area is also known for the temple of the Hindu goddess

Manakamana Manakamana Temple ( ne, मनकामना मन्दिर, IAST: ''Manakāmanā Mandira'', ) is a Hindu temple dedicated to goddess Bhagwati, an incarnation of Parvati and it is situated in the village of Manakamana in Gorkha District, ...

, known as

Manakamana of Tumlingtar Manakamana temple is the most famous temple situated in Tumlingtar about 5 Kilometers north of Tumlingtar Airport. It is in the north east of Tumlingtar bazaar on a bank of the Arun River. It is said that it was taken there from Manakamana of Gor ...

, situated 2.5 km north of the

. Radha-Krishna Temple is also at the middle of Tumlingtar bazar, where people have a lot of faith in, people visit temples especially in cultural and ritual festivals.

References

Tourism in Nepal Populated places in Sankhuwasabha District {{Sankhuwasabha-geo-stub