King Mahendra‘s retreat (Tikapur pak )

Tikapur Park

Tikapur

              

Tikapur park, one of the biggest and beautiful parks in western Nepal Situated at Tikapur Municipality of Kailali District. It was built by King Mahendra. During that time his health condition was very poor, due to heart disease and Doctor too asked him to rest. But despite of his health he kept on the work of building it. After it was built positive changes were seen in his health because of its fresh and good environment.  So therefore this Tikapur Park is now known as "The Rest Place of King Mahendra Tikapur Park" which brought about a great change in his health very drastically.

Tikapur is a Municipality in Kailali District in Province No. 7 of Nepal that was established on 10 March 2017 through merging the two former Village development committees Narayanpur and Dansinhapur.^[1] It lies on the bank of Kauriala River. The most prominent landmark is Tikapur Great Garden.Which is also known as the tikapur park. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 76,084 people living in 15,356 individual households.

These days Tikapur  has been an area of  tourists, entertainments and recreations. A very mass of people from in and outside of the country come to visit this place for their soul peace and satisfaction with its pleasant and cool environment. Besides, Tikapur park is a famous park with variety of food stuffs made up of banana, and a melodious and sweet banana wine has been each people's desire to taste once, and every time whenever they come

The picturesque town of Tikapur is located next to the longest river of Nepal – the Karnali river. During the reign of King Mahendra, Tikapur was chosen for the establishment of the biggest and most beautiful park in Nepal: the Tikapur Great Garden. The natural and fresh environment of the garden had a positive effect on the king’s health. Consequently, this place is also known as “King Mahendra‘s retreat.” Since then, the park has not lost its qualities. It remains a popular destination for those seeking recreation in nature

Tikapur is a municipality of over 60,000 inhabitants, located on the right bank of the Karnali river in the Terai district of Kailali, far western region in Nepal. In Tikapur, 98% of the residents are using on-site sanitation technologies, which are either pit latrines, septic tanks or biogas digesters. 2% of the population is still practicing open defecation. Tikapur does not have a sewer system.

Not far from the park, Tikapur offers a culinary highlight: the “Banana Restaurant”. A variety of dishes made out of banana can be eaten here: mo-mos, chips, ice-cream and even wine! However, you can not only enjoy delicious banana dishes here. Visitors can also buy handicrafts created from parts of the banana stem, so that as little as possible goes to waste!

Because of the quite and silent peaceful environment and also pleasured by the adjoining Bardia National Park, people are more attracted with the natural environment provided by the animals and birds' anomalous sound and and thier activities with their amazing eye-catching varieties and colors, preserved in that National Park. An amazing creation of feelings provided by the combination of the nature and its creatures that you would ever have dreamt of. Besides it's further located near the Karnali Bridge at 25 km distant and Ghodaghodi Lake at 44 km, where a large mass of people come to visit and therefore are attracted to this very amazingly silent park, "The Rest place".

                       

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Tikapur Airport is an out-of-service airport that lies in Tikapur.[3] Tikapur is connected to Mahendra Highway, a major highway of Nepal, at Lamki bazar via Tikapur Lamki road. This north south road is nearly 12 km long. Towards south Tikapur has a 14 km long road which is called Tikapur Khakraula road. This road joins Tikapur with Khakraula bhansar which is near Mohana River.

Tikapur Airport Info:

Tikapur Airport IATA Code: TPU	Tikapur Airport ICAO Code:
Latitude : 28.5	Longitude : 81.1333
City : Tikapur	Country :  Nepal
World Area Code : 755	Airport Type : Small

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