A Trip to Nepal is incomplete if you have not been on a Jungle Safari. While the mountains of the north have some of the highest and most magnificent peaks in the world, the tropical jungle of the Terai preserve some of the best wildlife habitat in the Subcontinent. Some of these riche wildlife habitats are now protected, and can be toured on elephant back, 4WD, dugout canoe or on foot accompanied by a licensed guide.

Nepal has 16 national parks, wildlife reserves and conservation areas, occupying 16% of its total geographical area. Jungle safaris on elephant back or Jeep rides are offered at the Parsa Wildlife Reserve, Royal Bardia National Park, Royal Chitwan National Park and the Royal Suklaphanta Wildlife reserve, all located in the Terai.

Nepal’s jungles are home to some of the most unique and rare animals in the entire world. The warm subtropical Terai region of Nepal houses such animals as Royal Bengal tigers, rhinos, leopards, wild elephants, sloth bears, monkeys, and crocodiles, four kinds of dear and over 250 species of exotic birds. The wildlife they live in. they are the premier places in Asia to enjoy a true jungle experience.
Our package includes everything from jungle activities to accommodations to transportation to and from the parks.

Chitwan National Park

Chitwan National Park (formerly called “Royal Chitwan National Park”) covering an area of 932km, is the oldest national park of Nepal. Established in 1973, it was granted the status of a World Heritage site in 1948. The Royal Chitwan National Park is located at subtropical inner Terai lowlands of South-Central Nepal in Chitwan District (200km away from the capital Kathmandu)

The park is rich in Flora and Fauna, which include one of the last populations of single-horned Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicorns) and the Bengal tiger Panthera tigris tigris. The area used to be known as “Four Mile Forest”. It was a place for big game hunting and until 1951 it was a hunting reserve. At the park there is canoeing, elephant rides and guided jungle walks.

The Chitwan National Park is home to at least 43 species of mammals, 450 species of birds and 45 species of amphibians and reptiles. Elephant and Indian rhinos are the largest species found in the park, but a lot of other large herbivores are found in the park, gaur, samber deer, Indian muntjac, chital, hog dear, mainland serow, chousingha and wild bear. Three large predator species tigers, leopards, dholes prey on them and carrion eaters like striped hyenas are also found.

Royal Bardiya National Park

Royal Bardia National Park is situated in the mid far Western Terai, east of the Karnali River, Nepal. The park is the largest and most undisturbed wilderness area in the Terai. About 70% of the park is covered with forest with the balance a mixture of grassland, savannah and riverside forest.

Bardia was a royal hunting reserve of Nepal’s Rana rulers from 1846 to 1950. A well-meaning malaria eradicating program in the 1950’s and 1960’s opened the terai for settlement, and transformed about 75% of the native Terai to agricultural land. Bardia was declared a wildlife reserve in 1976, first measuring 134 square miles (347km) and expanded in 1985 to 374 square miles (968km). it became a National park in 1988.

The park provides excellent habitat for endangered animals like the rhinoceros, wild elephant, tigers, swamp deer, black buck, gharial crocodile, marsh mugger Crocodile and Gangetic dolphin. Endangered birds include the Bengal Florican, lesser florican, silver-eared mesia and sarus crane. More then 30 different mammals, over 200 species of birds, and many snakes, lizards and fish have been recorded in the park’s forest, grassland and river habitats. A good number of resident and migratory birds are found in the park. It is also the home of one of the last known herbs of wild elephants.