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Bagmati Tours & Travels
(P.) Ltd. offers you vast variety of Terrestrial Adventure to make your
trip most memorable of your lifetime. Here we have listed few of them. |
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| Jungle Safari | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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
jungles of the Terai preserve some of the best wildlife habitat in the
Subcontinent. Some of these rich 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. |
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Nepal's diverse terrain is a mountain
biker's dream adventure comes true. Mountain biking offers an environmentally
sound way of exploring this magnificent country, its landscape and living
heritage. Because this is a Spartan, laborious mode of travel by the 'purists'.
There are plenty of dirty roads and trails in Nepal to meet every mountain
biker's wildest fantasy. |
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Nepal offers an astonishing topographical
variation with altitude ranging from 70 m to 8.848 m just within a span
of 193 km. Partly on account of this, Nepal boas of all kinds of climates
ranging from alpine to temperate to tropical. All kinds of flora from
tundra-like vegetation to desert-type cactuses to rainforest. All kinds
of fauna from prairie dog like Marmot to show leopard to dolphin. All
kinds of geo-features ranging from the steppes (wind-swept desert-like
landscape) to countless rivers to lake valleys, and vales to hills, mountains,
plains, jungles, marshland, grassland, etc. Not to mention, hundreds of
rivers, glacial lakes, lakes and creeks with their common origin in the
Himalayas. The Kali Gandaki meanders between the world's deepest gorge/canyon.
Then there is of course the highest mountain in the world - still the
last mystical symbol of purity left in the world gone wrong. Over 70 ethnic
groups, each with its own unique culture and language, spread out across
the length and breadth of Nepal mostly in hamlets, villages and shanty-towns,
Temples, shrines, and festivals all year long. All you need to enjoy all
these are a pair of strong legs and the spirit of adventure. There are many trails, many of them old trade or pilgrimage routes, leading through terraced hillsides, forested ridges, river banks, paddy fields, forest covers, and connecting picturesque hamlets and mountain villages. The best way to see Nepal and connect with her hand and people viscerally is still via the oldest way: by walking on your two feet like our hunter-gatherer ancestors did. |
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Nepal is known the world
over primarily for three things: Mt. Everest; Lord Buddha's birthplace;
and as the homeland of Gurkha soldiers. However, it is her mountains that
have proved to be irresistible for the world's bravest adventures. It
all began with the scaling of Mt. Everest by Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa
colleague Tenzing Norgay, in 1953. Then followed the Messners, the Bonningtons,
and the Her-zogs. Not at all surprising since the land stands tall with
8 of the 10 highest mountains in the world. Of the countless number of summits within Nepal, a little over 100 are open to foreigners for a fee. Expeditions to the 8000 m-plus are expensive and are usually sponsored. For instance, Everest is currently $50,000. However, 33 of the so-called "trekking peaks" (in the 5,000 - 6,000 m range) can be climbed for a lesser fee. Although by Himalayan standards, these are considered minor peaks, they nonetheless provide snow and ice climbing, and are technically quite challenging. |
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If you want a cliffhanger experience
in Nepal, the Kathmandu Valley perimeter offers some hair-raising spots.
There are some terrific, dizzying places for those who get their kicks
from crawling up vertical cliffs. If you are not making it to some of
the kingdom's high peaks here's another opportunity to get a high. Of
late, rock climbing has found increasing popularity among the tourists
coming into Nepal as well as for local enthusiasts. Most of the spots
are situated to the north and northwest of the valley, in the vicinity
of the Nagarjun Royal forest and the Shiva-puri Watershed and Wildlife
Reserve. Your rock-climbing trip can therefore be combined with bird watching,
game watching and experiencing some of the last of the valley's wilds. |
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