With the beginning of Dashain festival, people are leaving Kathmandu Valley for their hometowns in large numbers.

The Dashain travel rush is the major annual migration in Nepal, when people leave the Valley and other cities for their hometowns every year to reunite with their families and friends.

In the past few days, traffic congestion has become a problem in various areas inside Kathmandu Valley.

Major junctions where people board vehicles to their hometowns are crowded with people leaving the Capital city for their villages.

On Friday, people travelling outside Kathmandu Valley thronged to Koteshwar to board buses.

Here are some photos captured by Post’s photographer Hemanta Shrestha.