Chitwan National Park has been for a long time regarded as third biggest attraction in Nepal behind trekking as well as the Kathmandu Valley. This beautiful and huge nature reserve guards around 932 sq km of sal wooded area, water marshes as well as rippling grassland. This park is known to be one of the preceding refuges of in danger of extinction one-horned Indian rhino as well as there are considerable populations of leopards, tigers, as well as exceptional Gangetic dolphins. Previous to the Maoist revolution, Chitwan was been visited through an remarkable 92% of the entire tourists to Nepal, on the other hand the numbers of tourists have plummeted ever since the year 2001. The up market lodges placed surrounded by this park even today attract polite numbers of tourists, however a  [...]

Common Info Chitwan National Park (CNP) or Royal Chitwan National Park (RCNP) is the oldest national park of Nepal. The park, which covers an area of 932 square kilometres, was established in 1974 and has been granted with the status of the World Heritage Site in 1984. The wildlife park is located at the Terai lowlands of Chitwan district in Couth-Central Nepal. Scientific and research studies on various flora and fauna types are conducted in the park. The CNP area comprises Tikauli forest extending from Rapti river to the foothills of the Mahabharat mountains, extending over an area of 175 sq. km. was declared. Background The place where the CNP stands today was earlier known as the Chitwan Valley which was a favourite hunting reserve for the Ranas, the erstwhile rulers of Nepal till  [...]