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Boating down the Babai in Bardia

Rafting and wildlife viewing adventure in western Nepal’s pristine jungles

Lisa Choegyal

Shrinking tourism’s ecological footprint

Nature camp in Bardia reinvents eco-tourism to benefit communities first, while supporting conservation

Nepal counting its tigers

The latest edition of Nepal’s tiger census began on Sunday in which 300 enumerators will span out across Parsa, Bardia, Banke, Chitwan and Shuklaphanta...

From slave to entrepreneur

Looking at Sushma Kumari Tharu today, one would be hard-pressed to find any resemblance with the meek young girl she once was....

Nepal’s wild elephants are also on the move

Before Covid-19 and lockdowns I would be guiding tourists around Bardia National Park this time of year. But the pandemic has meant empty homestays...

On the road in West Nepal

The past year will go down in history as one great global disaster with the coronavirus pandemic leading the pack of calamities...

Covid-19 lessons for Kathmandu from the Tarai

In July, as the government eased the first lockdown, people streamed across the border from India into Nepal, spreading the coronavirus infection along cities...

Sonia Awale

Visit Nepal (Virtually) 2020

For travellers whose Visit Nepal plans in 2020 were scuppered by the pandemic, Bardia Homestay is bringing Nepal's Tarai plains into living...

Don’t follow my footsteps, says female mahout

Himani Tharu may be the first female elephant mahout serving in Nepal's national parks, but her story is hardly inspirational.Instead, it exposes...

Close encounters with tigers in Nepal

6 January, 2004. It was a foggy and cold winter morning in the western Tarai. As secretary of the Gauri Community Forest...