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Bhaktapur in October
Good month: October is at the start of the recommended season (October – April). Dashain (Bada Dashain) and Tihar (Deepawali) can fall this month.
The season runs to the end of April, 6 months away.
2 days in Bhaktapur in October · from ₹6,696 for two
Stay, food & local travel; getting there extra
What’s on in October
Timing a trip around these changes what you pay and what you can book.
Dashain (Bada Dashain)dates shift yearly
Nepal's biggest festival, 15 days ending on the full moon, with the main days (Phulpati to Vijaya Dashami, the day of tika from elders) like India's Navratri and Dussehra. Kathmandu empties as people go home: buses and domestic flights sell out a week either side, government offices, many shops and some restaurants close for 4-5 days, and prices rise. It falls in the autumn trekking season, so book transport early.
Tihar (Deepawali)dates shift yearly
Five days of lights, two to three weeks after Dashain: crows, dogs and cows are honoured on successive days, Laxmi Puja falls on India's Diwali, and Bhai Tika ends it. Towns are lit with oil lamps and garlands and children sing deusi-bhailo door to door. Offices close for the last days and long-distance buses fill up again.
What it costs
For two sharing a room; 2 days on the ground, getting there not included.
Budget
₹6,696 for two
- Room a night₹1,250
- Food a day, each₹819
- Main sight entry, each₹310
Mid-range
₹15,740 for two
- Room a night₹3,440
- Food a day, each₹1,890
- Main sight entry, each₹310
Luxury
₹35,601 for two
- Room a night₹8,750
- Food a day, each₹4,410
- Main sight entry, each₹310
What October does to prices
- Kathmandu empties as people go home: buses and domestic flights sell out a week either side, government offices, many shops and some restaurants close for 4-5 days, and prices rise.
Totals cover the room (taxes included), food, local transport, entry and a 10% buffer: the figures the planner opens on. These are typical rates; Tourisma has no month-by-month rates for Nepal yet, so they don't move with the month.
Getting there
Fly into Kathmandu (KTM), 12 km away
Then: Transfer · 48m (Taxi, per vehicle)
Flights from India: from 10 cities, one way from ₹6,500
Routes compared
Entry rules
No visa needed
- Carry your Indian passport or your original Election Commission voter ID card. Aadhaar is not accepted as a travel document for Nepal, and airlines refuse boarding on it.
- Flying in: show the same ID at check-in in India and at immigration in Kathmandu. No visa, no fee and no form for Indian citizens.
- Crossing by road (Sunauli, Raxaul–Birgunj, Kakarbhitta and the other border points): walk or drive across with the same ID. Bringing an Indian vehicle needs a customs permit (bhansar), paid per day at the border.
- Trekking or visiting a national park: you still need the park or conservation-area permits (Indians pay the lower SAARC rate), shown by region in this plan.
Carry: Valid Indian passport, or original Election Commission voter ID card (not Aadhaar); Children: a passport, or a birth certificate or school identity card when travelling with a parent who has valid ID; Over 65: a passport or voter ID is safest. A Home Ministry communique lets over-65s (and under-15s) use other government photo ID, Aadhaar included, but the Embassy of India in Kathmandu says Aadhaar and PAN cards are not valid for India–Nepal travel, so check with your airline; Two passport photos and photocopies of your ID, for trekking and park permits.
Indians need no visa for Nepal and sources give no fixed limit on the stay. Accepted IDs: passport or voter ID only; Aadhaar is not accepted. Rules for minors and other photo IDs vary by airline, so check with yours, or with the Embassy of India in Kathmandu, before you go.
Checked 2026-10; confirm with the embassy before you fly.
Elsewhere in Nepal in October
Also in season this month.
- Jomsom · great month
- Rara Lake · great month
- Bandipur · good month
- Bardia (Thakurdwara) · good month
- Chitwan (Sauraha) · good month
- Ghandruk · good month
- Ghorepani (Poon Hill) · good month
- Ilam · good month
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