Seattle Times

‘Manakamana’: Soaring trips to a temple of wishes in Nepal

The faces in “Manakamana,” a transporting ethnographic film set in a green sliver of Nepal, stare into the camera, out into space and, perhaps, into the great beyond. The faces are sometimes creased ...
GIGAZINE

I took a ropeway through the sea of clouds to Manakamana Temple, the 'temple where wishes come true.'

Manakamana Temple, a Hindu temple in central Nepal, is known as a 'temple where wishes come true.' The temple is also home to Nepal's first ropeway, which was installed in 1998 to allow visitors to ...
GIGAZINE

This is what it was like staying at a guesthouse in the temple town of Manakamana, the 'temple where wishes come true'

There are many temples in Nepal, but one of them is the Hindu holy site Manakamana Temple, located about 100km northwest of the capital, Kathmandu, known as the 'temple where wishes come true.' I had ...
JSTOR Daily

Pilgrim Tourism in the Central Himalayas: The Case of Manakamana Temple in Gorkha, Nepal

As a follow-up to the International Year of Ecotourism (IYE 2002) and the International Year of Mountains (IYM 2002), scholars and practitioners need to continue to address the challenges inherent in ...
The Himalayan Times

Manakamana Cable Car resumes service after weeklong shutdown

The Manakamana Cable Car, Nepal's first passenger cable car linking Chitwan's Cheres station with the famed Manakamana temple in Gorkha, resumed operations today after a one-week closure. The service ...