Jungle Safari. The geography of Nepal can be divided into mountains, hills and plains. Chitwan, Bardiya National Parks and Royal Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve offer exciting jungle safari holidays. Jungle activities here include venturing into deep jungle on elephant back or four wheel drive to view wild animals in their natural habitat, canoe rides on the jungle rivers, nature walks, bird watching and village tour excursions. A wide range of the earth's topography and climate zones are found within its area of 147,181 square kilometers including in it a wide range of ecosystem from subtropical jungles of the terai to the arctic conditions of Himalayan highlands. Nepal's rich bio-diversity renders it ideal as an eco-tourism destination. Almost 19 percent of the country's total land accounts for its sixteen protected wildlife areas across the country.

Chitwan National Park This National Park: is situated 120 kilometers southwest of Kathmandu. Chitwan is considered as one of the Nepal's largest forest regions with a wide range of wildlife-the rare one horned rhinoceros, several species of deer, sloth bear, leopard, wild boar, fresh water dolphin, crocodile, more than 350 species of birds and the exclusive Royal Bengal Tiger.  The wildlife activities in the park are nature walks, jungle drive, bird watching, elephant ride and boating. Visitors may also take river raft trip on the way to Chitwan from Kathmandu.  detail

Bardiya National Park: is the largest and most undisturbed wild area of the Terai. It is densely covered by Sal forests, riverine forests and grassland. Within its confines of 968 square kilometers, there are animals such the Rhinoceros, Wild Elephant, Tiger, Swamp deer, Black buck, Gharial crocodile, and Gangetic dolphin. Endangered birds include the Bengal florican, Lesser florican, Silver-eared mesia, and Sarus crane, Over 30 different mammals, 200 species of resident and migratory birds, including many reptiles and fish are found thriving in this wilderness. detail

Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve: with vegetation similar to that of Bardiya, lies in the extreme south-west of Nepal encompassing an area of 355square kilometers. Predominant among the wildlife in Suklaphanta are large herds of Swamp deer. Other animals seen are Wild Elephant, Royal Bengal Tiger, Hispid hare, Nilgai, Leopard, Chital, Hog deer, and wild Boar. Reptiles include the Marsh Mugger crocodile, Indian python, Monitor lizard, Cobra, Krait and the Rat snake.

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