The village is located 19 km away from the Pokhara Baglung Highways and falls within the trekking route of Mardi Himal Trek.

[1] At the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 2,753 persons in 547 individual households.

The village is gradually turning into a tourist destination.

It has the Australian Base Camp with views of the peaks Annapurna, Dhaulagiri and Machhapuchhre.

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