Rukumkot is a town located in a valley in Rukum district

Rukum District

Rukum District of 188,438. Musikot is the district's administrative center.Rukum district has many potential tourist attractions that remain unexplored. There is 5,849 meter Mt. Sisne , also called virgin mountain. Nobody claims to have conquered this mountain yet. Rukum is also called "the...

, Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

 approximately 350 kilometres west of Kathmandu. Nearby is a pond called Rukmini Tal (Local name Kamal Dhaha with historic Sibalaya temple nearby built by Purna Kumari, wife of a Rana

Rana dynasty

The Rana dynasty ruled the Kingdom of Nepal from 1846 until 1953, reducing the Shah monarch to a figurehead and making Prime Minister and other government positions hereditary...

Prime Minister, and attractive Barah Temple. Bhagwati Temple is also in Rukumkot as well as Deurali Cave.

The town has government offices including police post, post office, health post, veterinary, a bank. Sisne Campus has offered bachelor-level studies since 2008 AD.