Village Walk near Chitwan National park

The jungle Scenery, birds and animals alone do not make up the unique features of Chitwan National Park. The indigenous local people, the Tharus, are also of immense interest. A professional guide/expert naturalist will accompany you through the area and help you gather insights into the Tharu way of life.

Well, “since the beginning of time” the sacred land of Terai was the homeland of Tharu tribes. These mysterious people are considered as descendants of the Buddha. Although very little is known about Tharus, it is clear that they lived here long before arrival of Indo-Europeans.

The people of Tharu village call themselves “The People of the Forest”. They farm rice, corn lentil and hunt wild boar, deer rabbit along with river fish.

The Tharu Village (Badrahani) located near Sauraha (at the edge of the Chitwan National Park) is a sort of living museum, place where the time runs at the fraction of its normal speed observed in the Western Hemisphere. You can see mud & clay-built ochre-colored houses with thatched roofs. These simple, mostly one-room structures with no chimney and no windows seemingly have little to hide from the outside world. During a day, life takes place outside. You may spot an old sewing machine on the porch, pots hanging above the fire, goats wondering around, barking dog making clear who is the boss there.

Tharus for long have been living from hunting, fishing, gathering and cultivation, acquiring skills necessary to survive in this rough environment. They developed an enormous knowledge of wild medicinal plants, still successfully using them these days to cure various diseases.