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Only Macau Tower is taller. The Kushma bungee drops you 228 metres into the Kali Gandaki gorge, a couple of hours from Pokhara.
By Anjali Shrestha · Aug 17, 2026
Two hours' drive from Pokhara, a 520-metre suspension bridge spans the Kali Gandaki river where it cuts between Parbat and Baglung districts in western Nepal. Step off the middle of it with a cord tied to your ankles and you fall for 228 metres — roughly the…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
What makes the Kali Gandaki gorge extreme isn't just its depth — it's what's on either side of it. Dhaulagiri and Annapurna I are two of the fourteen 8,000-metre peaks on the planet, and the river running below the bridge has been cutting through the rising…
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Nepal already had a claim to bungee fame before Kushma opened: the Last Resort at Bhote Koshi, near the Tibet border, has run a 160m jump off its own suspension bridge since 1999 and still sits inside the world's top ten. Kushma simply goes further, on…
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Two very different jumps, one region If Kushma's 228m sounds like more adrenaline than you actually want, the original — Bhote Koshi's Last Resort — is the one we run trips to, and it's still a genuine top-ten world jump at 160m over a roaring Himalayan…
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