Legend of Manakamana Temple, where the Manakamana Goddess dates back to the reign of the Gorkha king Ram Shah during the 17th century. Manakamana by cable car: The service is from kurintar, just to Manakamana temple. The cable car rides over the distance of 2.8 kilometers in 10 minutes about. In earlier times, the only way to reach the Manakamana temple was by a long strenuous trek for about 3 to 4 hours. Now with cable car, mostly peoples are travelling by cable car both way. Itinerary : Early morning we will Drive to KURINTAR FROM KATHMANDU. It is about 4 hours from KATHMANDU . Reach at KURINTAR cable car station and ride to MANAKAMANA TEMPLE for a short visit and back. We will have few hours to see around and mean time we will go to temple to worship. Later, we will take Cable car again to go down.Once we reach down, Driver will collect us and we drive to Kathmandu. Stay overnight at Hotel.