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CHITWAN NATIONAL PARK:
Located in the Terai region of Nepal, with its abundant natural wealth, Chitwan makes a great place for nature lovers. Resorts and Hotels are numerous in this tourist hot spot as visitors may spend weeks marveling in the glorious Sal hardwood forest and "elephant grass" savannah.

A visitor may hop on an elephant's back and go in search of the famous single-horned Rhinoceros, a beast who's hide gives bullets a difficult time to penetrate. Chitwan is also home to tigers, leopards, sloth bear, antelope, several types of deer, and monkeys. A vast number of bird species along with thousands of exotic plants dwell in Chitwan as well.

The Chitwan National Park opened as a solution to problems caused by the mass immigration to the lowlands of the Terai region. When hill people started moving to the region in the 1950's, they cleared the forests to make way for farming. More than half the forest had disappeared in a short span of 10 years. By this time, the human population in the region tripled while wildlife population drastically fell.

In order to reverse some of this devastation, the Chitwan National Park opened in 1973 and the Royal Nepalese Army deployed there to prevent poaching. The park now preserves a magnificent array of wildlife the world can marvel over.

Paraphrased from :
http://www.gorp.com/gorp/location/asia/nepal and
http://www.south-asia.com/showcase/Tour
 


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