SAURAHA, Chitwan, Oct 20: With the beginning of the tourist season, internal tourists have thronged Sauraha of Chitwan district.
National park is the main attraction for the tourists in Chitwan, the third ranked tourist destination after Kathmandu and Pokhara in the country.
During these days, most of the tourists are enjoying jungle safari, pony riding and sight seeking. Greenery of Sauraha, Kasara and Bagmara community forests has also added more joy and excitement, tourists said.
Sauraha´s scenic beauty has lured visitors Kanhaiyalal Keshari and Pawan Tiwari of Birgunj.
They said they were planning to visit this area after Chhath with the entire family members and added, "Sauraha is more attractive than it was heard."
After the rise on tourist´s arrival during the festive seasons, entrepreneurs have demanded to develop as a ´Pay Holiday´ site to this area.
Over 90 percent of the tourists arrived in Sauraha desire for sight seeing riding on pony.
But, assistant warden of the national park Lal Bihari Yadav said limited number of elephants in the National park cannot provide services to all visitors. He said, "Our first priority is to conserve forest and to help visitors after forest management."
Despite high demand for elephants, national park has provided only four elephants for sight seeing inside the park.
Warden Rameshwor Chaudhary said that the park used to earn millions of revenue from the pony riding in the past but now it has decreased drastically. He said the main cause behind this is the less number of available elephants.
Over 800 domestic tourists come to this area each day for visiting, said Arpan Shrestha, proprietor of Garden Guest House. Some 150 small and big hotels have been providing services to the tourists in Sauraha. Likewise, guests have hard times to get rooms because of high booking rate.
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