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Dhanushadham Botanical Garden, Dhanusha (107M) Brindaban Bota Seasonal ornamental flowers, wild orchids, medicinal plants, rare and endangered plants and endemic plants Botanical information and exhibition center, Ethnobotanical garden, Tropical house, coronation pond, taxonomic family garden, lily garden and Japanese style garden Butterflies and birds watching Access Easily accessible from the center of Kathmandu (Ratnapark), near Thamel one of the touristic area of Nepal. Public vehicles are also available frequently at a regular interval from Lagankhel and Satdobato. Opening Time Introduction • Butterflies and birds • In-situ and ex-situ conservation of more than Access Opens daily from 9:30 am and 220 species of rare, endangered, endemic and Botanical Garden are the living museum of plants. • Public vehicles are available from Lagankhel and st native plants of temperate and subalpine climatic The main objectives of the botanical gardens SatdobatoClosing frequently.at 4:00 pm from 1 week of Nov-Last week of Jan and at 5:00 pm in rest of the zones. are conservation, education, research, display Openingmonths Time • Plant Landscape and thematic garden (Herbal and recreation. There are 11 botanical gardens • Daily from 9:30 am-4:00 pm (Nov.-Jan.) and from nurseries, cactus, ornamental, orchid, in different ecological regions of Nepal under Admission9:30 am-5:00 Fee pm (Feb.-Oct.) sandalwood, domestication and germ-plasm Department of Plant Resources (DPR). Admission Fee conservation) Adults • View tower from where one can have a Children (below 10 yrs) NRs National Botanical Garden, (above 10 yrs) NRs panoramic view of the magnificent Himalayas Category including Mount Everest (the highest peak of Godawari, Lalitpur (1515m) Electric Vehicle Electric Vehicle Admission Admission the world), Annapurna, Ganesh Himal, Manaslu, (Optional) (Optional) Langtang etc. Nepalese 50 200 20 100 • Best destination for 2-4 hours of hiking SAARC 200 400 100 200 • Snowfall in winter season Foreigners 500 1000 200 500 Access: About four-hour drive from Kathmandu through Visitors Tribhuvan Highway About 450 thousand visitors (Nepalese, SAARC and Visitors Opening Time: Foreigners) per year. Daily from 9:30 am-4:00 pm (Nov.- Jan.) and from Garden Facilities About 450 thousand visitors (Nepalese, SAARC and Foreigners) visit this garden every year. 9:30 am -5:00 pm (Feb.-Oct.) • Restaurant facility is available on the first floor of Admission Fee: Free information center near main entrance gate • Thematic garden (educational, rock, orchid, fern, • Thematic garden (rose, educational, herbal • Plant landscape and thematic garden (herbal Visitors: About 7,000 national and international Garden• Electric Facilities vehicle facility ornamental and rhododendron) medicinal and aromatic plants, ornamental nurseries, cactus, wild orchid, ornamental, visitors per year The National Botanical Garden, Godawari, Lalitpur • Wheel chair friendly path in BEG, Taxonomic • Bird watching, Endemic salamander plants, ethnobotanical and aquatic) sandalwood, eduactional, domestication and Garden Facilities: is one of the internationally recognized botanical FamilyRestaurant Garden facility and Special is available Garden on the upper floor of informationAccess: center near main • 30 plant species with religious value are germ-plasm conservation) • Parking garden. It is located about 25 km south east corner • Parkingentrance facility gate Kathmandu to Bhadrapur airport (Jhapa) by air. conserved in religious garden. • Chure exhibition plots which includes the plant • Garden tour guide of Kathmandu valley, established in 1962 AD. The • First aid facility near information center Then Bharatpur to Ilam by jeep or bus. Ilam to diversity of central chure region of Nepal Electric vehicle facility Access: Contact Garden offers fantastic view of the Mt. Phulchowki • Garden tour guide Maipokhari from jeep. 20-minute flight from Kathmandu to Janakpur Access: www.makawanpur.dpr.gov.np (2760 m.), “Hill of Flower” rich in biodiversity and Contact Wheel chair friendly path in BEG, Taxonomic Family GardenOpening and Special Time: Garden and Kathmandu by Bus to Janakpur. Janakpur to • Four-hour drive from the capital city of [email protected] very popular destination for hiking and cycling. From www.nbg.gov.np, [email protected] Daily from 9:30 am - 4:00 pm (Nov.-Jan.) and from Dhanushadham on jeep. Kathmandu (via. Pharping) to Hetauda then 10 Tel : 977- 9855013005 Tel : 977-01-5174246Parking facility the top of the Mt. Phulchowki panoramic view of the 9:30 am- 5:00 pm (Feb.-Oct.) Opening Time: min drive from Hetauda Himalayas and Kathmandu valley can be observed. First aid facility near information center Tistung Botanical Garden, Maipokhari Botanical Garden, Admission Fee: Free Daily from 9:30 am-4:00 pm (Nov.-Jan.) and from • 15-minute flight from Kathmandu to Simara then Initial layout of this botanical garden was designed Garden tour guide Visitors: About 20,000 national and international 9:30 am- 5:00 pm (Feb.-Oct.) one-hour drive from Simara. Tistung, Makwanpur (1900 m) by the British scientists G.A.C. Herklots and Tony Ilam (2121 m) visitors per year Admission Fee: Free Opening Time: Schilling. This botanical garden is surrounded by Garden Facilities: Visitors: About 20,000 national and international Daily from 9:30 am-4:00 pm (Nov.-Jan.) and from natural forest of Alder Indian Chestnut tree and the • Restaurant facility is available in front of the main visitors per year 9:30 am-5:00 pm (Feb.-Oct.) temperature ranges between 20°C and 30°C during entrance gate Garden Facilities: Admission Fee: Free summer and -5°C to 20°C during winter. • Parking facility • Parking facility Visitors: About 5000 visitors national and Ever since its inception much of its activities • Garden tour guide • Garden tour guide international per year. have been focused in enriching the garden with Contact Contact Garden Facilities: indigenous and endemic plant species so as to ilam.dpr.gov.np, [email protected] dhanusha.dpr.gov.np • Parking facility integrate its collection with scientific investigation, Tel : 977- 027-520564 / 977-9852680584 Tel : 977- 015174246 / 977-9854029752 • Garden tour guide conservation, education and demonstration. Contact Major Attractions Dhanushadham Botanical Garden, Brindaban Botanical Garden, www.makawanpur.dpr.gov.np • In-situ and ex-situ conservation of about 1000 Dhanusha (107m) Makawanpur (405 m) [email protected] Tel : 977-9855013005 plant species. The Maipokhari Botanical Garden is situated 15 km The Tistung Botanical Garden is situated 55 km • Biodiversity Education Garden (BEG) : Established far from Kathmandu, Makawanpur district, Central north of Ilam Bazaar, East Nepal, Province No.1. It Mountain Botanical Garden, Daman, in 2016 AD on the auspicious occasion of is established in 1992 AD. Visitors can enjoy plant Nepal, established in 1962 AD. It is a subtropical British-Nepal 200 years diplomatic relationships diversity and beautiful landscape here. Most of the Makwanpur (2320 m) garden with a natural blend of beautiful landscape with the collaboration between Government Garden area is covered by forest and Mai Pokhari and plant diversity. Spanning over an area of 45 of Nepal, British Embassy, Kathmandu and pond (1.85 hectares with depth of about 8.5 m), hectares of land, the garden consists of natural forest Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). BEG which is more or less orbicular with nine projected of Pine and Himalayan cherry. Visitors can enjoy represents about 120 species of native plants corners. Maipokhari is a wetland listed as Ramsar the garden with amazing beauty and panorama of of tropical, subtropical and alpine regions of the site in 2008 which is popular as a sacred place for landscape. Nepal Himalaya. the Hindus and the Buddhists from the very ancient Major Attraction: • VVIP Plantation Area: Represents different times. Visitors can also enjoy the spectacular view • In-situ and ex-situ conservation of more than species of plants planted by head of the state and of green tea garden and agro-tourism on the way 300 Plants (rare, endangered, endemic, native head of the government of different countries. to the garden. Walking trail from Ilam to Sandakpur Dhanushadham Botanical Garden is a tropical Brindaban Botanical Garden was established as a flora) of mountains Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip of the UK (3636 m, highest peak of Ilam) also passes through garden situated 20 km east from Janakpur airport, medicinal herbal garden, situated 3 km south-west • Plant landscape and Thematic garden (herbal also planted Ilex excelsa in 1987 AD in the VVIP this garden. Dhanusha district, Province No. 2. The city is a side of Hetauda bazaar and from east-west highway, nurseries, orchid, ornamental and educational) plantation area. Major Attractions: popular pilgrimage destination of the Hindus (birth Makawanpur district, Chure region of Central Nepal, Access: • Rock Garden : Designed and built by British • In-situ and ex-situ conservation of rare, place of Lord Sita). The garden was established in Bagmati Province. Visitors can discovers its history About three-hour drive from Kathmandu through horticulturist Tony Schilling endangered, endemic and native flora 1998 AD, spreads over an area of 107 hectares of from 1962 AD. It covers about 57 hectares of land of The Mountain Botanical Garden is situated 63 Tribhuvan Highway. • Special Garden with water fountain, seasonal • Wild orchids, Rhododendrons, Medicinal plants which 88.14 hectares of land is covered by natural which 32 hectares is covered with natural Sal forest km south-west of Kathmandu, Daman area, Opening Time: flowers, orchid house, cactus house, and one species of endemic bryophyte (peat moss) forest with rich of tropical plant diversity. It lies in the and deciduous riverine forest. Visitors can enjoy the north side of Makawanpur district, Central Nepal, Daily from 9:30 am-4:00 pm (Nov.-Jan.) and from Rhododendron garden south-west side of Dhanusha market at distance of natural beauty of the garden along with the beautiful Bagmati Province. It is established in 1962 AD and 9:30-5:00 pm (Feb.-Oct.) • Seasonal ornamental flowers, wild orchids, 100 m. from Dhanushadham Temple of Dhanusha.
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