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Chitwan National Park

The Royal Chitwan National Park offers a wildness of rich ecosystem that includes mammals, birds, reptiles and water animals of several kinds. It seems surprising but yet as a fact this is one of the most popular and most frequently visited part of the country. Owning to its rich adornment of nature the park was declared UNESCO natural heritage Site in 1979. There are around 600 plant species, 50 kinds of mammals, 526 species of birds with 49 amphibians and reptiles are found in the Park. The highlights, of course, are the 500 Asian one-horned rhinoceros and some 100 nocturnal Royal Bengal Tigers that live in the dense forests of the park. Sharing home with these are other animals like rhesus monkey, grey snakes including the Python, while the river areas breed amphibians like the endangered snouted Gharial, popularly paradise flycatcher, Indian pitta and parakeets, while winter birds include waterfowl, Brahimny Ducks, Pintails, bar-headed geese, cormorants and migratory birds from Siberia. In other Bird varieties you find are woodpeckers, hornbills, peacocks, peahens, floricans and redheaded trogons. A rare attraction of the park is the world's fresh water dolphin variety sometimes seen in River Narayani.