Bandipur is an edge settlement and an area in Tanahun District

Bandipur is an edge settlement and an area in Tanahun District, (Gandaki Zone) of Nepal. This area was developed on 18 May 2014 by joining with existing Dharampani and Bandipur VDCs. Because of its ensured, obsolete social air, Bandipur has logically been setting off to the thought of tourism. At the period of the 2011 Nepal identification it had a masses of total (Bandipur and Dharampani) 15591 people living in 3750 individual householdsBandipur was developed as a diverting reason for trade by Newar dealers from Bhaktapur in the Kathmandu valley after it had been vanquished in 1768 by Prithvi Narayan Shah. They abused its intestinal disorder free range to frame it into a basic stop along the India-Tibet trade course. With them they brought their social legacy and building which in a general sense has stayed unaltered straight up 'til the present time. 

At first an essential Magar town in the mid nineteenth. Century Bandipur shaped into prosperous trading center and a gathering with town-like components: huge structures, with their neoclassical façades and secured windows and streets cleared with bits of silverish slate. Bandipur had its prime in the Rana times (1846-1951), when, as a measure of its vitality and reputation, it was permitted exceptional approval to have its own particular library (up 'til now existing). 

In the 1970s, trading fell into a grand lessening with the improvement of the Kathmandu – Pokhara roadway. For specific reasons it was sensibly understood the Marsyangdi valley, leaving Bandipur isolates up on the mountain. Despite that, as an outcome of its poor openness, Bandipur lost noteworthiness in light of the fact that the range headquarters of Tanahun were moved to Damauli. The tradesmen of Bandipur were constrained to move down to Dumre and various even left for the Terai; Bandipur turned a semi-apparition town. The masses declined considerablyBandipur is arranged at 27.56 N, 84.25 E and an ascent of 1030m on a mountain saddle (Mahabharat range) about 700m over the Marsyangdi River Valley, 143 km toward the west of Kathmandu and 80 km toward the east of Pokhara. Since 1998 it is related by a 8 km access road from Dumre (Kathmandu-Pokhara interstate). Until then there was only a fickle road, in rainstorm generally speaking not open or just by tractors. The mountain saddle, just 200m long, is barely adequately wide to oblige the essential street lined by 2 –3 story structures on either side. At the rear ends of these houses the mountainsides steeply plunge and the porch nurseries are only accessible by stairs.Formerly a Magar town, Bandipur today is settled by a collection of Nepali ethnicities with different feelings: the Bahuns, the Chhetris, the Newars, the Damais, Kamis, Sarkis, Kasais, the Magars and Gurungs. 

Its medium ascent, unfathomable viewpoint of the Himalayas (Dhaulagiri, Annapurna, Manaslu, Ganesh, Langtang Himal, the Marsyangdi Valley, Mount Manakamana and Gorkha with its high perching regal living arrangement), respectably straightforward accessibility and, clearly, old Newari town style, make Bandipur a charming guest site from which a few guesthouses and a hotel at the northern end of the Tundikhel endeavor to advantage. It may well be that the detachment of Bandipur saved the Newari outline of its structures which for the most part would have been supplanted by faceless present day sorts found in various diverse towns of Nepal. 

The diverse Newari and Magar festivities, which starting quite recently have been held for their own particular inspirations a couple times every year, can hold up under some criticalness with voyagers too. Sorathi and Chutka moves are to a great degree pervasive. Due to the partition and poor accessibility of a heavy parcel of the main residences of understudies at Bandipur schools different houses have been changed into lodgings. Various Magar and Gurung men serve as Gurkha soldiers.Bandipur is an old trading town of inquisitive parkways and charming environment. It is organized on a ridgetop south of Dumre which lies 135 km out on the Kathmandu - Pokhara avenue. Bandipur can be come to taking after a two hour move from Dumre. While the other trading posts of the Nepali slants have modernized, Bandipur holds its age old social properties. Notwithstanding all that it has its asylums, sanctums, holy openings and a newari outline that sees back to the Kathmandu Valley of old.The most perfect way to deal with Bandipur is to arrive by early afternoon at Dumre Bazaar from Pokhara or Kathmandu , and to trek it up. You can in like manner take a vehicle or a jeep up on the association road.