RESORT
INFORMATION
Forest Hideaway Hotel & Cottages was founded
in 1992
and is presently
Nepali
owned. Due to the extensive experience of the management
and the dedicated work of the staff Forest Hideaway has
an unmatched reputation, both at home and abroad, as a
well-run establishment. Additionally the Forest Hideaway
team has the knowledge and facilities to offer you top
quality advice and travel planning.
Forest Hideaway Hotel & Cottages has been
committed to the provision of quality service ever since
its establishment. It is certified and approved by the
Department of Tourism, Nepal.
Forest
Hideaway offers friendly and efficient services to you
as our customer. Transport can be arranged using our own
drivers and cars. Our local guides are multi-lingual and
have extensive training and experience in eco-friendly
tourist practice in and around the park. We also have
the facilities to offer computerised air ticketing and
hotel booking world-wide. City tours of the Kathmandu
valley with knowledgeable guides can be organised. In
fact we cater for all your travel plans and arrangements
throughout Nepal including white-water rafting, mountain
trekking, jungle safaris and even package tours of
Tibet!
Forest Hideaway is recommended by your
guide books:
# Lonely Planet Guide Book 2001,
page 286.
# Guide du Routard (France), 2007-2008.
#
Rough Guide Book (UK), 2002, page 368.
Tharu Style Resort:
Known as ‘Tharu’, the indigenous people of the western
lowlands of Nepa
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live in close harmony with nature. The local community
depends on the forest and rivers for their survival and
livelihood and still lives as they have done for
generations. In keeping with this rural way of life,
Forest Hideaway provides accommodation from budget to
deluxe, in traditional clay and timber cottages with
grass thatch roofing and indigenous
décor.
The hotel contains a library,
bar and restaurant offering a set buffet or appetizing a
la carte menu. All this is situated within a beautiful
garden.
Forest Hideaway Hotel &
Cottages provides a relaxed setting from which to
explore the pristine conservation area that is Royal
Bardia National Park.
Forest
Hideaway Hotel & Cottages provides a relaxed setting
from which to explore the pristine conservation area
that is Royal Bardia National Park. Electricity has
reached Bardia recently. We have added generator to
produce electricity in case of power cut. Or guests are
provided hot shower heated with solar system during the
day and hot water bottle during the night.
Positive
Tourism:
Forest Hideaway
endeavors to pass on the positives of tourism to the
local Tharu community. The majority of the staff are
from the surrounding villages, a third of whom have
received formal certified training prior to employment.
Local tradesmen are employed on an ad hoc basis and many
local products are used in the resort where
possible.
Essential Facts
WHERE are we?
Forest Hideaway is situated in the western lowland area
of Nepal in Thakurdwara village on the peripheries of
Royal Bardia National
Park.
HOW to get here?
Forest Hideaway is 585 km from Kathmandu and
is serviced by a daily bus. This takes approx. 14 hours
by road. Forest Hideaway can also be reached by a
similar bus service from Pokhara.
It is
also possible to fly from Kathmandu to Nepalganj. Flight
time is about an hour and jeep transfer can be arranged
from Nepalganj airport to Forest Hideaway, this transfer
takes two hours.
You can also get to the
Forest Hideaway from India via Mahendranagar on the
western Nepal-India border. Mahendranagar is twelve
hours from Delhi and an additional 3 hours to the Forest
Hideaway, by road, is required.
Our GPS Location
North 28 Degree 27' 46.2 "
Eash 81 Degree 14' 51.2"
From Fishing Spot (Babai River)
North 280 Degree 25' 32.4 "
East 81 Degree 23' 45.7 "
WHEN
to come?
The best time to visit Forest
Hideaway is between October and June. Advanced booking
is advised for November and
December.
WHAT to bring?
We
suggest that you bring: walking shoes and also rubber
sandals, modest swimwear, sun hat and protective lotion,
insect repellant, any personal medicines you require, a
torch, binoculars, extra batteries, camera and spare
film in addition to clothes suitable to the
season.
For information on our inclusive
package programme or for any general information please
contact us today.
CONTACT US
We will gratefully receive any requests or
bookings and hope to be able to offer you an enjoyable
travel experience in the near
future.
You can contact us by any of
the following methods or you can drop into our Kathmandu
office for a chat:
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Mohan
Aryal is currently the
Managing Director of FOREST HIDEAWAY HOTEL &
COTTAGE established in 1994 at the edge of “
Bardia National Park” of far west Nepal.
He fetched decent training in “Royal Chitwan
National Park” and “King Mahendra Trust for Nature
Conservation” relating to modern wildlife before
being declared a Senior Naturalist. He had been a
jungle excursion operator since 1986. Having
gained profound experience around the national
parks of South-East Asia he helps you to quench
your thirst for flora and fauna. He
started working as a naturalist in “Royal Chitwan
National Park” and in event extended his jungle
tour to “Royal Bardia National
Park” and
other national parks in Nepal and India. He
at first visited “Royal Bardia National Park” in
1989 simply as a tour guide. The untouched
wilderness of “Royal Bardia National Park”
fascinated him so much that he was under charm of
Bardis's beauty to start his own small tourist
cottage in 1994. Ever since he has been serving
nature lovers as a guide, manager and above all as
a friend.
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Forest Hideaway Hotel
And Cottages Pvt. Ltd.
Bardia National Park
Thakurdwara
West-Nepal
Tel :+977-84-429716 (Resort)
CDMA Phone: 00977-081-690936
Sky Phone : 9748004071
Address in
Kathmandu:
Jyatha,
Thamel, Kathmandu
Tel :+977-01-4225973
Mobile : 9841437404
Email: info@foresthideaway.com
hideway@ntc.net.np
hideway@forest.wlink.com.np
Web: www.foresthideaway.com |
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