13th Chitwan Elephant Festival begins in Sauraha

13th Chitwan Elephant Festival begins in Sauraha
13th Chitwan Elephant Festival 2016

13th Chitwan Elephant Festival 2016

The festival began with the eye-catching procession of bedecked elephants that originated from the eastern sector of the Chitwan National Park and passed through Sauraha. A Tharu cultural rally was also the part of the inaugural session of the festival.

Tharu Dance

Tharu Dance

The nine various programs including elephant ‘fast walk’ tournament, elephant Polo, a football match among elephant calves, cart race, elephant painting, picnic for elephants, a cultural program and a boat riding competition are the parts of the festival.

Elephant Polo

Elephant Polo

The festival is the continuity of the Elephant Race Tournament that used to be held in Sauraha 12 years ago.

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Landmark Forest Park Chitwan

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Chitwan Elephant fest slated to start Dec 26

Chitwan Elephant fest slated to start Dec 26

The 11th edition of the Chitwan Elephant Festival is scheduled to be held in Sauraha from December 26-30 on the occasion of Christmas and New Year 2015.

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The festival is aimed at promoting tourism and spreading awareness about wildlife preservation, said Suman Ghimire, coordinator of the event. It started in 2004 as an international elephant race and since then it has been celebrated as a festival.

The organizer said that a picnic would also be organized for the elephants this year. “Wildlife is our asset and it should be preserved well,” said Ghimire. Another objective of the festival is to encourage tourists to remain in Nepal through the Christmas and the New Year holidays as most of them return to their own countries for the celebrations. The holiday season is also a lean period for Nepal tourism as arrivals start dropping from mid-December. “The festival is targeted at increasing tourist numbers,” said Gyanendra Kumar Bista, president of Regional Hotel Association Nepal in Chitwan. “Such events will also help create awareness to preserve wildlife.”

Hotels and restaurants offer discounts and serve distinct varieties of foods for visitors. Local hotels and restaurants are normally packed with domestic and international tourists during this time. Around 20 elephants compete in a 150-metre race. Likewise, elephant calves play football while an elephant beauty competition is also held which has become one of the major attractions at the tourist hotspot. The event has been successful in promoting tourism in past years. “This is why we have been continuing the festival,” said Deepak Bhattarai, second vice-president of the association. Apart from foreign visitors, the festival has been attracting huge numbers of domestic visitors. Sauraha has more than 100 hotels and all of them are packed during the festival. The jungle safari destination of Sauraha has not only seen an aggressive development of hotels and resorts over the past few years, entrepreneurs have also been making large investments in elephants to carry tourists on sightseeing tours in the jungle.

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Around Rs 330 million has been spent on rearing elephants. The jumbos have become an integral part of tour packages of the hotels and resorts here.

Situated in the lush tropical plains of southern Nepal, Sauraha attracts safari goers with its rich wildlife and thick jungles. There are 51 elephants owned by hoteliers and cooperatives in Sauraha .

Source: Ekantipur

Beautiful places in Nepal for your vacation

Nepal and Himalayas have been the synonym words for Nepal enjoys the pride of having 8 out of 10 highest peaks of the world! We don’t have only mountains but our unique geography has given us green hills and valleys, rivers, subtropical forests and flat lands all adding beauty to our country. Apart from geographical diversity, we have incredible cultural diversity within the boundary of our small Himalayan Kingdom. We have a number of ethnic groups, each with their own languages, cultures, and costumes, all living in perfect harmony.

The best way to experience unbeatable combination of natural beauty and cultural riches of Nepal is to walk through terrain. One can walk along the beaten trails or virgin tracks. Either way you are in for an experience of a lifetime. Along with rhododendron forests, isolated hamlets, small mountain villages, birds, animals, temples, monasteries (Gomba) breathtaking landscape of unsurpassable mountain ranges, you will also encounter friendly people of different cultures and traditional rural life.

The great Mountains with unsurpassable splendor, crystal clear streams and brooks, the high current of rivers, colorful species of flowers, birds and animals, abundance of greenery and forests with much more hidden beauty and mystery with unavoidable adventure and fun will be waiting for you.

Here are the best tourist attractions in Nepal you can visit:

Kathmandu:

Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley

Kathmandu is Nepal’s largest city and capital of Nepal. Kathmandu is situated in a valley in the heart of Nepal. Kathmandu is famous for many Buddhist temples and in it, mostly from the 17th century. One example is the Kathmandu’s Durbar Square. Buildings that are open admiration in Nepal as a tourist attraction was built in the 16th century, contains a marvelous royal palace and many temples built in traditional pagoda style.

Durbar Square. This complex of palaces, courtyards and temples like Hanumandhoka Palace, Kumari Ghar (Abode of the Living Goddess), Taleju temple, built between the 12th and 18th centuries, used to be the seat of the ancient Malla Kings of Kathmandu. An intriguing piece here is the 17h -century stone inscription set into the wall of the palace with writings in 15 languages. The Durbar Square, protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the social, religious and urban focal point of the city. Even to date, all the major state and social ceremonies, including the solemnization of coronations are performed in one of the courtyards in this complex. There are also museums inside the palace building. There is an entrance fee of Rs. 250 for foreign visitors. Your ticket to the Square entitles you to visit all the museums.

Chitwan:

Chitwan National Park

Nepal’s first & most famous national park, The Chitwan National Park covering 932 sq. Km is situated in the southern terai lowlands of Nepal. Widely known for one of the richest varieties of wild life adventures.Only 160 km from Kathmandu, 155 km from Pokhara & 160 km from the Indian border (Sunauli), Chitwan National Park is the best known safari park in Nepal .It is home to many species of animals such as the world famous royal Bengal Tiger, the great one horned Rhinoceros, 4 different kinds of deer, sloth Bear, Leopards, crocodiles, monkeys as well as many different species of butterflies, insects & over 450 sorts of colorful & endangered birds.

Even if you don’t get the chance to see all of these animals, the rich vegetation with dense forest, grassland & riverside areas will be worth walking through.
From Kathmandu & Pokhara comfortable tourist buses have daily departures to Chitwan. If you have only limited time, you can also fly to Bharatpur Airport which is only 17 km away from Jugle Wildlife Camp.

Pokhara:

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The Pokhara Valley, a land of spectacular beauty crowned by the majestic Himalayas, conjures visions of calm but vibrant green hills. Loaded with luxuriant vegetation and dotted with shimmering lakes, the valley offers awesome vistas. Magnificent image of Mount Machhapuchhare reflected in the clear waters of the Lake Phewa leaves everyone spellbound. One of the Nepal’s adventure hubs, it has reputation of being the second home for the tourists worldwide.

The geographical studies reveal that centuries ago a glacier was formed in the valley. As the time passed, the temperatures steadily increased and the solid ice melted and formed a river that began flowing, cutting into the soil of Pokhara. The regular flow of glacial waters created several underground tunnels. Currently, most of these tunnels are dry and are found in the form of caves.

Lumbini:

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Lumbini is the birth of place of Lord Buddha and has been declared as a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO. It is small town in the southern Terai plains of Nepal, where the ruins of the old city can still be seen. At the age of 84, he left this world with thousands of followers to keep Buddhism alive. Lumbini has since been a holy ground for Buddhists all over the world. The restored garden and surroundings of Lumbini have the remains of many of the ancient stupas and monasteries. A large stone pillar erected by the Indian Emperor Ashoka in 250 BC bears an inscription about the birth of the Buddha. An important part of Lumbini is the temple of Maya Devi. It has stone image of Maya Devi giving birth to Lord Buddha as she holds onto a branch.

An important archeological site near Lumbini, Kapilvastu evokes the ancient palace where Lord Buddha spent his formative years. Scattered foundations of the palace are abundant and archeologists have by now discovered 13 successive layers of human habitation dating back to the eighth century BC.

ल्यान्डमार्क होटलको दिपावली अफर, प्याकेजमा २५ पतिशत छुट

ल्यान्डमार्क होटलको दिपावली अफर, प्याकेजमा २५ पतिशत छुट

सम्राट ग्रुपले आन्तरिक पर्यटकका लागी पोखरा र सौराहामा सञ्चालित होटल तथा रिसोर्टमा ‘दिपावली अफर’ घोषणा गरेको छ ।

अफर अन्तर्गत दुबै होटलका हरेक प्याकेजमा २५ प्रतिशत छुट उपलब्ध गराउने बताइएको छ ।

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हाेटल ल्यान्डमार्का पाेखरा

सम्राट ग्रुपले पोखराको लेकसाइडमा होटल ल्यान्डमार्क पोखरा र सौराहामा ल्यान्डमार्क फरेष्ट पार्क रिसोर्ट सञ्चालन गरिरहेको छ ।

छुटसँगै पोखराको होटलमा प्रतिव्यक्ति ७ हजार ७७७ रुपैयाँको दुई रात तीन दिनको प्याकेज अब ५ हजार ८ सय रुपैयाँमा उपलब्ध हुने सम्राट ग्रुपका सिइओ सिएन पाण्डेले जानकारी दिए छ ।

त्यसैगरि सौराहामा रहेको रिसोर्टमा प्रतिव्यक्ति ९ हजार ९ सय ९० रुपैयाँको दुई रात तीन दिनको प्याकेज अब ७ हजार ५ सय रुपैयाँमा पाइने छ ।

प्याकेजमा पाइने सेवा सुविधाहरु

छुटसहितको प्याकेजमा पोखरा घुम्न जाने नेपालीहरुलाई होटलमा प्रवेश गर्दा चिसो पेयपदार्थले स्वागत गरिने छ ।

यस प्याकेजमा डिलक्स रुममा बस्न पाइने छ भने हरेक दिन ब्रेकफाष्ट, साँस्कृतिक नृत्यका साथमा डिनर सुविधा, फि्र वाईफाई, एक घण्टाको बोटिङ, कारमा आधा दिन पोखरा शहर भ्रमण, बसपार्क तथा एयरपोर्टसम्म यातायात लगायतका सुविधाहरु उपलबध हुनेछन् ।

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ल्यान्डमार्क फरेष्ट पार्क रिसाेर्ट

त्यसैगरि, सौरहा घुम्न जाने नेपालीहरुलाई पनि चिसो पेय पदार्थले रिसोर्टमा स्वागत गरिने बताइएको छ ।

डिलक्स रुममा उपलब्ध हुनुका साथै हरेक दिन ब्रेकफाष्ट, लञ्च, डिनर, फि्र वाईफाई, थारु गाउँ तथा सूर्यास्तको अवलोकन, थारु कल्चरल डान्स, हात्ती सफारी, बर्ड वाचिङ, हात्ती प्रजनन केन्द्रको अवलोकन लगायतका सुविधाहरु उपलबध हुनेछन् ।

Highest number of tourists visits CNP in fiscal year 2070-71 BS

Highest number of tourists visits CNP in fiscal year 2070-71 BS

The highest number of tourists visited the Chitwan National Park (CNP) in the last fiscal year 2070-71 BS.

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A total of 173,000 domestic and foreign tourists visited the Chitwan National Park during the period, which was the highest number of the tourists visiting the park so far, said Park Spokesperson, Tikaram Poudel.

According to the Park, number of foreign tourists visiting the Park has increased remarkably.

The Park collected Rs 246.8 million in revenue in the fiscal year 2070-71 BS against Rs 211.5 million in revenue in the previous fiscal year 2069-70 BS. A total of 153,000 tourists had visited the Park in the previous year. Poudel said that the revenue collected in the last fiscal year was more by 35.3 million than the revenue collected in the fiscal year 2069-70 BS. As per the statistics provided by the Park, a total of 170,000 tourists had visited the park in the fiscal year 2068-69 BS.

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Assistant Conservation officer at the Park, Bishnu Thapaliya, said that the Park has fixed Rs 750 for tourists from SAARC countries, Rs 100 for domestic tourists and Rs 1,500 for tourists from the third world countries as entre fee.

The Park collects a large sum of money from entrée fee. It has elephant and crocodile breeding centres.

Source: myrepublica