Motel Avocado & Orchid Resort

The Terai & Mahabharat Range


This local institution rests among a garden of orchids, rhododendron and avocado trees, and is a great choice for travellers on all budgets. The budget rooms are in converted Nissen huts with attached bathrooms, cold showers and bucket hot water, while the ‘motel’ rooms are well appointed and comfortable. The multicuisine restaurant offer excellent curries, tandoori, and garden BBQs.

Decades of passing cyclists and motorcyclists have contributed to the journals housed in the restaurant and make for good reading (ask at counter). Orchid and birding enthusiasts can arrange local tours here.


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Nearby The Terai & Mahabharat Range attractions

1. Shree Rikheshwar Mahadev Mandir

11.69 MILES

About 1km south of the village, a narrow trail leads west through the forest to this tiny Shiva temple. On the way, you can drop into a gorgeous little…

2. Mountain Botanical Gardens

12.48 MILES

The Mountain Botanical Gardens span 15 hectares of forest. To the nonbotanist this is more of a woodland walk than anything else, and guides are available…

3. Daman Mountain Resort View Tower

12.61 MILES

Some of the best views of the Himalaya in Nepal can be had from the concrete viewing tower inside the Daman Mountain Resort. Unfortunately, the resort has…

4. Dakshinkali Temple

18.27 MILES

The blood-soaked temple of Dakshinkali, a favourite Hindu pilgrimage destination, is set at the confluence of two sacred streams in a rocky cleft in the…

5. Drölma Lhakhang

18.43 MILES

This shrine is sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists, who identify Saraswati as Tara. It’s accessed via a set of steps to the west of Sakya Tharig Gompa.

6. Rigzu Phodrang Gompa

18.43 MILES

Adjacent to the Drölma Lhakhang is the Rigzu Phodrang Gompa, worth visiting for its impressive frieze of statues, with Guru Rinpoche surrounded by his…

7. Ralo Gompa

18.44 MILES

The large white Ralo Gompa has a brightly painted chörten. It’s located up the hill, past the line of Tibetan restaurants, towards the Drölma Lhakhang.

8. Guru Rinpoche Cave

18.47 MILES

Climb the steps behind the Drölma Lhakhang, passing a rocky fissure jammed full of tsha tsha (stupa-shaped clay offerings) and cracks stuffed with little…