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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.
 
     
  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.
 
     
  Mountain Biking  
 
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.
 
     
  Trekking Hiking  
 
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.
 
     
  Mountaineering  
 
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.
 
     
  Rock Climbing  
 
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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