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

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 Easily accessible from the center of Kathmandu (Ratnapark), near Thamel one of the touristic area of . 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 , 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. view of Rapti, Karra and Kukhreni River. It adjoins covering an area of 65 hectares. It is a beautiful Admission Fee: Free medicinal plants, rare, endangered and endemic Major Attraction: the area of Parsa National Park, which is famous for landscape garden. It is surrounded by Pine, Oak and Visitors: About 5,000 national and international plants • A mosaic of the Hindu Mithila culture Royal Bengal tiger and Elephant. Rhododendron natural forest. Visitors can enjoy the visitors per year. • Botanical information and exhibition center, • Ramjanaki and Dhanusha temple Major Attraction: garden with panoramic view of the Himalayas and Garden Facilities: Ethnobotanical garden, Tropical house, • Bow shaped Dhanush Garden • In-situ and ex-situ conservation of more than 455 landscape. • Parking facility coronation pond, taxonomic family garden, lily • In-situ and ex-situ conservation of 103 Plant species of rare, endangered, endemic and native Major Attraction: • Garden tour guide garden and Japanese style garden Species plant • 10 species of Rhododendron • Seedlings Botanical Gardens: Department of Plant Resources Contact Admission Fee: Free Dewahariya Botanical Garden is situated 5 km www.makawanpur.dpr.gov.np Visitors: Every year, many tourists including away from Dhangadi market in Kailali district, Far [email protected] Nepalese pass from the garden to reach World Peace Western Provience. It was established in 1998 AD Visit Our Botanical Gardens in Nepal Tel : 977- 9855013005 Stupa, Pokhara and covers an area of 149.5 hectares with tropical Life Time Experience of Unique Garden Facilities: natural wild forest. It is rich in wetland plant Biodiversity of Nepal World Peace Biodiversity Garden, • Restaurant facility is available in Pokhara diversity and beautiful landscape with ornamental Pokhara (775-1078 m) • Parking facility plants. Three natural lakes i.e. Jakhaur, Murfutta • Garden tour guide and Murfutti which are rich in wetland biodiversity Contact are present inside the garden. BloomBloom Tel : 977-061-466956 Major Attraction: • Famous for lotus and migratory birds. BeautyBeauty&& Dhakeri Botanical Garden, Banke • In-situ and ex-situ Conservation of 500 plant (170m) species including CITES listed plants like Devil Symbol Office Name Total Area 1 Maipokhari Botanical Garden, Ilam 200 hectare pepper, Tree Fern, Yam, Brown Pine, Orchids, BotanicsBotanics 2 Dhanushadham Botanical Garden, Dhanusha 105 hectare etc as well as rare, endangered, endemic and 3 Brindaban Botanical Garden, Brindawan, Makwanpur 57 hectare Mountain Botanical Garden, Daman, Makwanpur 56.6 hectare native flora. Tistung Botanical Garden, Tistung, Makwanpur 35.8 hectare 4 National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories, Godawari 40 hectare • Plant landscape and thematic garden (taxonomical 5 National Botanical Garden, Godawari 40 hectare family, physic, seasonal flower plot, fern, 6 Department of Plant Resources, Kathmandu 7 Natural Products Research Laboratory, Kathmandu ethnobotanical, aquatic plant plot, educational, 8 World Peace Biodiversity Garden, Pokhara 164 hectare 9 Dhakeri Botanical Garden, Banke 5.29 hectare CITES, rock, domestication and germ-plasm World Peace Biodiversity Garden is the first 10 Mulpani Botanical Garden, Salyan 5.5 hectare conservation, Chure demonstration plot, head of biodiversity garden, situated at south-west corner 11 Dhitachaur Botanical Garden, Jumla 4.51 hectare 12 Dewahariya Botanical Garden, Kailali 100 hectare the government and world plantation area) of Fewa lake extending from Pardi Fewa dam to the • Peace Pillar World Peace stupa, Pokhara, Nepal. It was formerly Asia, Salyan district, Karnali Province. Visitors can Access: known as Raniban and established in 2014 AD. It Opening Time: discover its history dating back from 1980 AD. It Around 15-minute drive from Dhangadi airport. covers 164.76 hectares area with dense forest of Daily from Sun-Fri: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm (Nov- Jan) covers an area of 5.5 hectares of area especially Opening Time: Indian chest nut and schima trees. The main aim of and from 10:00 am- 5:00 pm (Feb.-Oct.) The Dhakeri Botanical Garden is situated along majority of which is occupied by natural pine forest. Daily from 9:30 am - 4:00 pm (Nov.- Jan.) and this garden is to manage biodiversity, improve viability Others: the east west highway, 11 km north-east from It is only one of the national level Botanical garden from 9:30 am - 5:00 pm. of wild flora & fauna and address the economic Cozy guest house facility for international researchers Nepalgunj, Banke district, Lumbini Province, in lower belt of Karnali Province covering 6district. Admission Fee: Free needs of the community with main emphasis on the Contact western Nepal. It lies adjacent to the Banke Major Attraction: Visitors: About 20,000 national and international conservation of floral diversity. National Park, which is famous for Royal Bangal visitors per year. www.kath.gov.np, [email protected] Major Attraction: • In-situ and ex-situ Conservation of 375 plant Tel : +977- 01-5174277 tiger. Visitors can discovers its history dating back species (rare, endangered, endemic, native flora) Garden Facilities: • Renouned Gupteshwar cave from 1980 AD, learn about its plant diversity and • Restaurant facility is available in Dhangadi. • It has 2.4 km cycle trail from base of Raniban to • Plant Landscape and thematic garden (biodiversity, Natural Products Research beautiful landscape. It covers 5.29 hectares area of physic, ethnobotanical, fern, rock and orchid) • Parking facility world peace pagoda. tropical forest. • Garden tour guide Laboratory (NPRL) • In-situ and ex-situ Conservation of many threatened • Agrotechnology of Red pepper, Machilus and Major Attraction: Keshar Contact plant species like Devil’s tree, Tree Fern, Brown www.dprokailali.gov.np • Cutch, Black Plum, Ceylon oak, kumkum tree • Water fountain, mini bridge, seasonal flower plots Mountainous region. It is one of the most splendid pine and many others endangered species. Tel : +977-091-522920 forests, sandalwood, annatto and Blackboard tree • Bird watching (100 Bird species) gardens with natural plant diversity and majestic • Plant landscape and thematic garden (orchid and or devil…s tree view of landscape. biodiversity) Access: National Herbarium and Plant • In-situ and ex-situ Conservation of 400 plant About one-hour drive from Dang valley Major Attraction: • Panoramic view of Himalayan range including species (rare, endangered, endemic, native flora) • Only place where Brown Rice (Jumli Marshi) is Laboratories (KATH) the Mt. Macchhapuchhre Opening Time: • Thematic garden (orchid, ethno botanical, fern, red Daily from 9:30 am-4:00 pm (Nov.-Jan.) and from cultivated above 3000 m. (highest altitude grown • Unique fern are lush green remain inside the sandalwood, aquatic and germ-plasm conservation) rice in the world) natural forest. 9:30-5:00 pm (Feb.-Oct.) Access: Admission Fee: Free • Unique in floral and faunal diversity Access: About 40-minute drive from . • Famous for walnut, apple and Medicinal and 10-minute drive from . Visitors: About 5,000 national and international Opening Time: visitors per year. Aromatic Plants (MAPs) Opening Time: Daily from 9:30 am-4:00 pm (Nov.-Jan.) and from • Major trek to Rara Lake (largest lake of Nepal/gem Daily from 9:30 am -4:00 pm (Nov.-Jan.) and from Garden Facilities: 9:30am-5:00 pm (Feb.-Oct.) of the west) and Phoksundo Lake. Natural Products Research Laboratory is an ISO/IEC 9:30 am-5:00 pm. • Parking facility Admission Fee: Free • Garden tour guide Access: 17025:2017 accredited Laboratory established in Visitors: About 18000 national and International Contact About 90-minute walk from Jumla airport. 1964 AD with the major objectives of phytochemical, visitors per year. www.salyan.dpr.gov.np Opening Time: pharmacological, pharmacognostic research, in the Garden Facilities: Tel : +977-088-410028 Daily from 9:30 am-4:00 pm (Nov.-Jan.) and from field of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) of • Parking facility 9:30 am-5:00 pm (Feb.-Oct.) National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories (KATH) Nepal. It is located at Thapathali, Central Kathmandu, • Garden tour guide Admission Fee: Free was established in 1961 AD which is the oldest in the vicinity of the famous world heritage sites; • Tropical flora observation Visitors: About 10,000 national and international and largest herbarium of Nepal, situated at the Kathmandu Darbur squares and Patan Darbur square. Contact visitors. base of Mt. Phulchowki Hill, 14 km. south-east Major Attractions: www.dprobanke.gov.np, [email protected] Garden Facilities: corner of Kathmandu, Central Nepal. It is aimed • Testing of MAP and essential oil To explore, conserve and sustainably utilize Contact : +977-081-523523 • Parking facility at survey, collection, preparation, identification • Unique museum the plant resources • Garden tour guide and preservation of herbarium specimens and • Animal House: Rearing of animals like rabbit, Mulpani Botanical Garden, Salyan Contact documentation of plant resources. It is the guinea pig, rat and mice for Research purpose (1420m) www.jumla.dpr.gov.np repository of the diverse plant wealth of Nepal. • Technology development of MAPs Tel : +977-087-690009/ +977-9858320142 Major Attractions: • Formulation of herbal products Government of Nepal The Mulpani Botanical Garden is situated 25 km • Hike to Mt. Phulchowki (Hill of Flower), highest Ministry of Forests and Environment • Standardization, Identification, Certification and Department of Plant Resources north from the Dang Valley, the largest valley of Dewahariya Botanical Garden, point of Kathmandu valley ( 2782 m) Characterization of plants and plant products Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal Dhitachaur Botanical Garden, Kailali (170 m) • Public Service for the identification and utilization Access: Tel: 4251159, 4251160, 4261966, 4261967 Jumla (2500 m) of plant species Around 30-minute drive from Tribhuvan Website: www.dpr.gov.np • House about 165,000 herbarium specimens with International Airport, Kathmandu. The Dhitachaur Botanical Garden is situated 114 Type specimens Opening time: Guthichaur-5, Jumla, covering area about 5 hectors • Digitization of 80,000 herbarium specimens Sun-Fri: 10:00 am-4:00 pm (Nov.-Jan.) and from 3 km north-east from Khalanga, Jumla district, (plantdatabase.kath.gov.np) 10:00 am-5:00 pm (Feb.-Oct.) Karnali Province. It was established in 1980 AD and Access: Contact as a Saffron cultivation spot in 1990. It is developed About 90-minute drive from Tribhuvan International www.nprl.gov.np as Alpine Botanical Garden found in Himalayan Airport, Kathmandu Tel : 977-01- 4266856