About Nepal

Nepal is one of the most beautiful small landlocked country which lies between two biggest countries China in the north and India in other three sides south, west and east. It is situated in the lap of the beautiful snow-capped Himalayas and is home to the world's highest peak – Mount Everest. Nepal is the world's 93rd largest country by land mass and its area is 147,181 sq km. The elevation of the country ranges from 70 m sea level to the highest point on earth, Mt. Everest at 8848 m all within a distance of 150 km with climatic variations ranging from sub- tropical to alpine. Nepal is also famous for its amazing bio-diversity, flora and fauna present in it and the world's 8 highest mountain ranges, ice- blue lake, forested hills, arid deserts and frozen valleys. Geographically Nepal is divided into three regions Terai, Hilly and Himalayan. The Himalayan covers approximately 15% of Nepal, the Hills and the Terai make up for 65% and18% of Nepal respectively. Even Nepal is small country but it is rich in cultures which have their own language, wear and their lifestyle. About 48% speak nepali language, 12% speak Maithali other 40% speak English, and other 90 additional (mother tongue) languages. Generally in Nepal there are two major groups of people are found. Tibeto-Burmans, or Mongoloids from the north, and Indo-Aryans from the south.

Nepal got the oldest culture of world that flow from generation to generation, which help to give the beautiful meaning and wonderful art of life. Buddhist and Hindu are the two major religions which are followed in Nepal. Nepal is also called the country of Everest and birth place of Lord Buddha who spread knowledge of light to the Asia. Each year 1000 of traveler come to explore in this land. This land is full of adventure, mistries and unsolved quest of the past which are buried into time. The capital Kathmandu together with towns of Bhaktapur and Patan are medieval cities packed with hundreds of masterpiece temples and stupas, some dating back even second and fifth centuries. It is only in Kathmandu that seven UNESCO declared world heritage sites lies in a periphery of just thirty kilometers.

Nepal has been endowed with a great diversity of life-zones providing a home for a large variety of plants, birds and animals.The Terai lowlands are defined by a belt of well-watered floodplains stretching from the Indian border northward to the first slopes of the Bhabhar and the Siwalik Range. This is the richest habitat in the land with tall grasslands interspersed with riverine and hardwood sal forest . Here one can see wildlife such as the swamp deer, musk deer, black buck, blue bull, the royal Bengal tiger, gharial and marsh mugger crocodile and the last of a breed of Asiatic wild buffalo. This area is also rich in birdlife with a variety of babbles and orioles, koels and drongos, peacocks and floricans, and a multitude of wintering wildfowl. There are five protected areas in Nepal - Koshi Tappu and Parsa in the east, Sukla Phanta and Dhorpatan for hunting in the west and Shivapuri in the. mid-mountain region. The Churia, also known as the. siwalik, is the southern most range of the Himalaya. No where do they rise above 1,220 meters, This range is famous for fossil deposits of Pleistocene mammals, among them 10 species of elephants, 6 rhinoceros, hippopotamus, saber-toothed cats, various antelopes and primates such as the orang-utan, long extinct in the subcontinent, Situated north of the Churia are broad, low valleys of the inner Terai know as the Doons. These valleys are not unlike the outer plains with tall elephant grass, swamps and ox-bow lakes where the last of the one-horned rhinoceros survive. Royal Chitwan National Park in the Inner Terai of central Nepal is the first and best protected area in the kingdom. Once one of the most famous big game hunting areas in Asia. Chitwan now offers protection to a large array of mammals such as the. one-horned rhinoceros, tiger, leopard, sloth bear and the gaur (wild bison) as well as more than 400 species of birds.

Higher in the north between 2000 and 3500 meters lies the Mahabharat Range with its oak crowned crests. The hills of this midland are covered by a moist temperate forest of deodar, oak, maple and birch in which are found deer, ghoral serow, leopard and monkey, The gorgeous multi-colored lmpeyan pheasant (Nepal's national bird) is also found here with other endangered birds like the koklas and Cheer Pheasants. Protected areas in this zone include Khapted National Park in the Far-West, Dhorpatan Hunting reserve, North-west of Pokhara and Shivapuri Wildlife Sanctuary near Kathmandu.

Higher still, nearer the snowline, are the alpine mountain flanks which are the haunt of snow leopard, which preys on blue sheep and the Himalayan tahr. Rarely seen are the wolf, black bears and lynx. The Sherpas, Manabga, and Dolpa-bas are some of those who farm and graze their livestock on the high mountain pastures. Langtang, Sagarmatha (Everest), Shey-Phoksundo and Rara National Parks are the protected high altitude areas of Nepal

As Nepal being the richest country in the world in terms of bio-diversity due to its unique geographical position and latitudinal variation therefore, Nepal has able to become one of the favourite tourist destinations in the South Asian. Also here is perfect adventures destination. Nepal has got many intresting things for a visitor, such a spectacular topography, such a richness of culture and wealth of flora and fauna all packed in this small country, hardly can you find it anywhere else in the earth.