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Nepal's First Bungee Jump Opened in 1999 on a Bridge Built for One Purpose — Jumping Off It

A hundred kilometres east of Kathmandu on the road to Tibet, a steel suspension bridge engineered only for bungee jumping has been dropping visitors…

By Laxman Rawal · Aug 9, 2026

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Most of the suspension bridges strung across Nepal's gorges were built to move people, yaks and porters from one village to the next. One was not. On the Araniko Highway, about 100km east of Kathmandu toward the Tibet border, a 166-metre steel bridge spans…

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What this means for trekkers

The takeaway The Bhote Koshi jump sits on the same highway most overland trips to Kathmandu's eastern hills already use, which makes it an easy add-on rather than a special trip: pair it with a short cultural loop through the Kathmandu Valley, or treat it as…

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