Bardia National Park is situated on the eastern banks of Karnali River,
lies in the west of Kathmandu. The park is 968 sq km in area, known as the
largest and undisturbed park in the lowland Terai region of Nepal. This
park is also marked as bird watcher’s paradise which contains huge amount
of accrued plants, animals and ecosystem. More than thirty different
mammals, over 400 species of birds, many snakes, lizards and fish have
been recorded in the park’s forest grassland and river habitats but the
chances more or less depends on the season. It is the home of a wide
variety of endangered animals like Bengal tiger, Wild Elephants,
One-horned rhino, Swamp Deer, Black buck, Gharial Crocodile and Gangetic
Dolphins. This park is one of the best places to view the Bengal Tiger.
This river is a supplementary magnetism to the park which also gives an
option of white water rafting to the visitors.
Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve which is merely 4 hrs jeep drive from Bardia
National Park. Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve lies in the extreme south
western corner of the country, a former hunting reserve in an endeavor to
protect the large herd of Swamp deer was founded in 1976 covering an area
of 155 sq km, that later was extended to the current size of 305 sq km.
The promising reserve is famous for the largest number of tigers found
per sq km. compared to its small size and on the other hand, it is famous
for the large herds of Swamp deer, which currently stands at about 2000
individual. It is also the habitat of other wild animals like Wild
elephants, Wild boar, crocodile, Blue bull and Hog deer as well as huge
One-horned rhino.
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