Bardia National Park is the largest park in the lowland Terai covering an area of 968 sq. km. This natural wilderness is about 585 km south west of Kathmandu and lies in the mid-far western Terai, east of Karnali river. About 70% of the forest consists of sal trees with a mixture of grassland and riverine forests. The park is an abode to many animals such as Royal Bengal tiger, one-horned rhinoceros, swamp deer, black buck, gharial crocodiles, mash mugger and Gangetic dolpin.