Wildlife Safari in Nepal
is a combo trip of experiencing and exploring the heritage sites, wildlife, and culture of southern Nepal in the same trip. Rather than focusing on a specific destination, this tour takes you to most of the visited places, world heritage sites, and national parks of Nepal within 10 days of time. This tour offers wonderful nature and unique, adventurous, and wilderness wildlife experiences for nature, culture, and wildlife lovers.The chic safari camp in Bardia and Chitwan’s national parks will be this trip’s highlight. However, the unique Tharu culture, their simple way of life, and their co-existence with the wild will charm you. To add up the spectacularly pink sunset over the Rapti river in Chitwan and Karnali in Bardia will relax your mind and soul.
Chitwan National Park is the first national park in Nepal. It was established in 1973 with an area of 932sp km. Later in 1977, the park was extended to its present area of 952.63 sq km. Due to its wide biodiversity, it was listed as a World Heritage Site in 1984. Moreover, in 1997 an area of 729.37 sq km was added as a buffer zone. Before the 1950s, the forest of Chitwan spread over more than 2600 sq km was the hunting grounds for the ruling class.This dense forest was home to about 800 one-horned rhinos. Gradually the people from the mid-hills started migrating to Chitwan in search of cultivable lands. Subsequently, the area was opened for settlement and increased human activities resulted in wildlife poaching. Furthermore, after the eradication of malaria human settlement started increasing and by the end 1960s, more than 70% of the forest was cleared. While the human population was increasing in the area rhino and other wildlife kept decreasing. To conserve the wildlife of Chitwan, the borders were marked out in December 1970. The Chitwn National Park is therefore developed with an initial area of 544 sq km.
Bardiya National park is the largest national park in the lowland Terai covering an area of 968 sq.km. The park situated in Nepal's Western Terai was established for protecting the representative ecosystems and conserving the habitat of tiger and its prey species. Bardiya National Park is iocated along the border of Nepal and India on the far southeastern side. The park encompasses 374 square miles (968 sq km) creating the largest national park in the country. The pristine wilderness is one of the most natural and undistrubed landscapes in the country.It was orignally named Royal Bardia National Park established in 1988. The park, along with the neighboring Banke National Park, serves as part of the Tiger Conservation Unit protecting the endangered tigers. Together the two parks account for 555 square miles (1,437 sq km) of protected terrain.Bardiya is comprised of mostly forest accounting for about thre-fourths of the landscape. Grasslands, savannah, and riverine forest account for the remaining terrain. There is over 835 species of vegetation covering the park area. The Karnali River borders the west side of the park with the Babai River flowing through the main part of the park.