Tribhuvan Highway

Known informally as Byroad, the Tribhuvan Highway is the oldest and the first highway of Nepal and links Naubise, west of Kathmandu with the Indian border at Birgunj/Raxaul. ==Route==

The best stretch of the highway is through the Terai region. Thereafter, it is an unending series of climbs and descents through the Sivalik Hills north of Hetauda. Its total length extends to some from north to south. It is as the crow flies from Hetauda to Naubise, but Tribhuvan Highway makes it an astonishing . Daman on Tribhuvan Highway has probably the finest view of the Himalayas extending on a good day from Dhaulagiri in the west to Everest in the east. Pathlaiya is the junction point of the Mahendra Highway and the Tribhuvan Highway. ==Kathmandu-Terai Expressway alternative==

There are at least half a dozen routes to the Terai region via Makawanpur from the capital city, including Tribhuvan Highway, Kanti Highway, Ganesh Man Road, and Madan Bhandari Road. The four-lane fast track extending from the outer ring road in Kathmandu to Nijgadh in the Terai region will be the shortest and will only be . The track will have a tunnel of 1.3 km at Thingana of Makawanpur. It has been under construction since 2008. ==References==