9-PARSA WILDLIFE RESERVE

The Pars Wildlife Reserve provides a rare opportunity to experience the nature and culture to Nepal's Terai. Spread over parts of Chitwan, Makawanpur, Parsa and Bara district, a considerable part of the Churia Hills of central Nepal also falls in the region landing it an air of a more diverse terrain. The vegetations tropical and sub tropical mostly covered with Sal forests, while the hills are covered with chir pine. Khair, sissoo and silk cotton silk cotton are found along water areas.

The reserve provides good habitat for animals like wild elephant, tiger, leopard, slot bear, gaur, blue bull and wild dog. Other common animals in the reserve are sambar, chital, hog deer, barking dear, langur monkey, rhesus macaques, striped hyena, rat, plam civet and jungle cat. There are 527 pecies of birds found in the reserve, one being the endangered great hornbill found in certain pats of the forest.


Other bird species include peafowl, red jungle fowl, flycatchers and woodpeckers. Birds and animal apart the reserve also habitats snakes like king cobra, common cobra, krait, rat snake and python. Parsa Wildlife Reserve is one of the easiest place to reach the reserve headquarter Adhabar is and eight-hour drive from the capital city and falls on the East-West Mahendra Highway. Another option is to fly to Simra is Bara district, from where the reserve headquarters is only seven kilometers away.