Visiting Places
Sudurpaschim
Shuklaphanta National Park
Far-western Terai grasslands holding the world's largest swamp-deer herd.
SudurpaschimSudurpaschim Province
Shuklaphanta protects a great sweep of open Terai grassland in Nepal's far-western corner, where the country's largest herd of swamp deer gathers on the phantas. Far off the tourist trail, it also shelters tigers, wild elephants and rich birdlife along the Mahakali floodplain. It is the wild, low-altitude counterpart to the better-known Chitwan and Bardia.
Known for
- Far-west Terai grasslands
- world's largest swamp-deer herd
At a glance
- Region
- Sudurpaschim
- Province
- Sudurpaschim
- Getting there
- In Kanchanpur district near Mahendranagar; reached by road from Dhangadhi or the India border.
- Best time
- October–April for wildlife and comfortable Terai temperatures.
Things to see & do
- The open 'phanta' grasslands and their vast swamp-deer (barasingha) herds
- Tigers, wild elephants and over 400 bird species along the Mahakali
- A genuinely uncrowded safari in the south-western corner of Nepal