Timure Tatopani

Timure Tatopani is a natural hot spring in Timure village, Rasuwa District of northern Nepal, near the Rasuwagadhi border crossing with Tibet, where geothermal waters heated by the tectonic forces of the Himalayan collision emerge from the earth in a remote mountain setting accessible to trekkers on the Langtang Valley circuit. The name Tatopani, meaning 'hot water' in Nepali, is shared by numerous hot spring sites across Nepal, reflecting the abundance of geothermal resources produced by the ongoing collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates beneath the Himalayan range. Timure's hot spring provides weary trekkers and local communities with a deeply welcome natural thermal resource at altitude, where the warm mineral waters offer relief from the cold of the high Himalayan environment and the physical demands of mountain travel.