Dang’s Kulpani becoming a tourist destination

By Liladhar Wali Ghorahi, June 16:While scorching heat has kept many people in their homes, the Kulpani Green Park in Deukhuri, Dang, is seen crowded with people. The place, which falls under the Kulpani community forest area in the Deukhuri Valley, is gradually becoming a tourist center.

People throng the park to observe the sculptures of horses, rhinos, tigers, and peacocks, to climb the wooden watch-tower to observe the surroundings and to take photographs, as well as to enjoy boat ride during the summer. As it is a religious and wetland area in the forest area, hundreds of domestic tourist flock to Kulpani every day to escape the punishing heat and enjoy the greenery, said Nawaraj Sharma, Chairman of Kulpani Community Forest Users Group.

In an effort to develop the place as a tourist destination, different traditional items that were on the verge of disappearance are also kept there for observation, said Sharma.

However, the management committee stated that it could not manage the park due to a lack of funds. 

According to locals, the religious and tourist area in Gadhawa Rural Municipality-1 Badahara of Deukhuri, which was once deserted even after the development of some infrastructure by the Division Forest Office along with the locals for the promotion of tourism, is now catching the attention of many people. 

According to Sharma, the area came under the spotlight of tourists after the construction of a pond and a green park.

At present, the Province Infrastructure Authority Office is constructing Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the development of the area, spread across 12 hectares. Sharma said that the DPR is being constructed along with a kindergarten, picnic spot, and pond.

Engineer Shankar Subedi of the Office said that the DPR was being constructed in Kulpani to protect the kindergarten, picnic sports, and religious and wetland areas. He said that the planning work for the development of tourism in an area of 20 hectares by expanding it has reached the final stage.